Telecom Ramblings

Fresh out from under the umbrella of Reliance and clear of the bankruptcy process, Global Cloud Xchange (GCX) has emerged as an independent force in the subsea and global managed services business.  With new leadership in place, the company has been reformulating its approach as it looks ahead despite the pandemic and all that goes with it.  With us today to talk about GCX’s plans for 2021 and beyond is Chief Strategy and Revenue Officer Jim Fagan.  We last talked to Jim eight years ago when he was at Pacnet, which later became part of Telstra. [Read more →]

Four regional projects on two continents worth making note of: [Read more →]

This Industry Viewpoint was authored by Amr Ibrahim, Founder & CEO at ULTATEL

In 2021, the thought of a team huddled around a speaker on an audio conference call almost seems archaic, but it wasn’t long ago that this was the status quo.

Then 2020 came along and blew everything up. [Read more →]

A route launch, an energy milestone, and two non-core asset sales moves: [Read more →]

One M&A and three network rollout projects. [Read more →]

A data center launch plus three 5G moves: [Read more →]

The data center and interconnection provider Cologix offered up an interesting update on its Canadian business yesterday. Reporting 22% growth last year in the country, the company has made a small inorganic move out in Vancouver and will be expanding its Toronto footprint. [Read more →]

The East Micronesia Cable project has stalled in the face of a global political stalemate. The project, which is led by the World Bank, decided not to award the contract to any of its three bidders. [Read more →]

A couple deals, a data center upgrade, and a UC product expansion.  Verizon has won some significant federal business this week. [Read more →]

This Industry Viewpoint was authored by Steven Raucher, co-founder and CEO of RapidDeploy

The commercial world continues to leap forward, driven by data and information in exciting and innovative ways, but the public safety industry – whose critical mission and need for reliability and resiliency often preclude taking a risk on new and exciting technology –  has not kept pace. This is especially true for 9-1-1 response centers, where telecommunicators and first responders lack [Read more →]

Three data center moves plus a media infrastructure acquisition from around the world: [Read more →]

The Boston metro area has a new competitor when it comes to metro fiber infrastructure.  This morning Lightpath has announced three acquisitions that will take it into the major northeastern market in force, taking it beyond the New York/New Jersey metro area for the first time. [Read more →]

Four network expansion projects, both global and local: [Read more →]

Several interesting items from over the weekend or late last week to catch up on: [Read more →]

Some metro fiber, a couple of colo moves, a little FTTN, and a new hire: [Read more →]

Unite Private Networks is planning to put some resources to work in a market we don’t hear about too often in the infrastructure world. UPN has in mind a significant expansion of its presence in Little Rock, Arkansas. [Read more →]

As long and well travelled as it is, the US/Canadian border has long had only so many fiber routes crossing it. But 123Net now has another one, leveraging a new route built by Bluewater Regional Networks. [Read more →]

Bluebird Network has added some new longhaul capacity to its network out in Missouri. The Midwestern communications infrastructure provider has lit up a new 300-mile circuit between St. Louis and Kansas City. [Read more →]

Three vendor deployments and a partnership spread across four continents worth catching up on at midweek: [Read more →]

Several vendor deployments, a couple new products, and a new data center out in California: [Read more →]

A large chunk of data center assets are changing hands according to an announcement yesterday. QTS Realty Trust and Blackstone say they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Blackstone Infrastructure Partners, Blackstone Real Estate Income Trust, and other Blackstone ‘long term perpetual capital vehicles’ will be buying all of QTS’ outstanding shares for $78 apiece. [Read more →]

In the ongoing pandemic environment, few sectors of this industry have been as much in direct focus as Unified Communications.  It is to UCaaS technologies that so many have turned to for supporting remote workplaces, and NetSapiens is one of those companies that have been in the thick of it all.  So with us today for a return visit is NetSapiens CEO Anand Buch, whom we last talked with in 2017.  In March, NetSapiens agreed to be purchased by Crexendo, creating a larger and broader platform with which to meet challenges going forward. [Read more →]

The prospect of using the Arctic Ocean as an infrastructure highway will remain elusive for a while longer yet. According to Cinia, the Finnish operator helping drive Arctic Connect says that the project has been put on hold for now. [Read more →]