Telecom Ramblings

A data center is changing hands in the upper Midwest. Cologix announced today that it has signed a definitive agreement to purchase vXchnge’s facility in Minneapolis, Minnesota. [Read more →]

An expansion, a couple of upgrades, and a bit of blinding transmission speed: [Read more →]

A major piece of data center infrastructure is changing hands. EQT Infrastructure has announced today an agreement to acquire the edge data center provider EdgeConneX. [Read more →]

The ongoing regional buildout of Everstream gained some traction out in Missouri today. The Midwestern network builder and operator has revealed plans for an 800-route-mile footprint in the St. Louis metro area. [Read more →]

The metro fiber market in Texas has been quite strong over the last few years, and it’s not slowing down. Yesterday, Unite Private Networks announced an expansion into the San Antonio metro area, continuiong to flex their way down from the Dallas/Fort Worth metro area where they have spent the last few years building out network. [Read more →]

Some fiber at the edge, and a few SDN/NFV-related announcements to keep an eye on: [Read more →]

A few items to start the week with: [Read more →]

A few more bits of infrastructure news to end the week: [Read more →]

This Industry Viewpoint was authored by David Drai, CEO of Anodot

As the global economy has witnessed drastic changes in 2020, both in our personal and professional lives, telecom operators and governments around the world now need to rethink their infrastructure investment strategy going forward. [Read more →]

A few news items from some global network operators, two on the financial front and one technology deployment: [Read more →]

Here are a few midweek quick takes to keep an eye on, two contracts, two international expansions, and some new managed services. [Read more →]

Windstream’s plans for its next generation optical backbone became a bit clearer yesterday with the choice of vendor. They have tapped Ciena’s coherent optical gear and software platforms to power the company’s ‘National Converged Optical Network’ project. [Read more →]

Last week it appeared Digital Colony’s Brazilian foray, Highline do Brasil, was poised to win the auction to buy Oi. Things have shifted quickly, however, and it now appears that a consortium backed by the Brazilian subsidiaries of America Movil, TIM, and Telefonica will come away with the prize. [Read more →]

Here’s a quick roundup of other news worth noting from this week: [Read more →]

Two interesting items from Windstream to look at today, plus some subsea ULL connectivity and an edge data center. [Read more →]

Some fiber has changed hands over in France. Altitude Infrastructure today officially announced the acquisition of Kosc Telecom. Kosc is a wholesale-only Connectivity-as-a-Service provider with reach throughout the country. Altitude is also focused on the wholesale FTTP space, with 3 million FTTH connections. [Read more →]

Tropical storms, presidential campaigns, pandemics, Tiktok bans, explosions in Lebanon…  It’s hard to hear oneself think in the news cycle these days, but here are a few bytes of infrastructure news to keep an eye on from midweek nonetheless. [Read more →]

Missed this one late last week, but better late than never. Zayo on Friday revealed a substantial investment in its infrastructure in the state of Tennessee. In all, the company has or is in the process of boosting its fiber in the state by 50%. [Read more →]

A few weeks ago, Seaborn emerged from a reorganization process with a new unified corporate structure and Partners Group as its majority owner.  With its Seabras-1 infrastructure in place, some new capacity on AMX-1 coming online soon, and a growing IP network capability Seaborn is looking forward to a new phase of growth.  With us today to talk about the company’s plans and how the pandemic has affected things this year is co-founder and COO Andy Bax. [Read more →]

As we say good bye to July, here’s a quick look at some news you might have missed from this week: [Read more →]

MOX Networks has polished off another unique dark fiber network buildout, this time in the Pacific Northwest. It’s just 25 route miles of fiber connecting a half dozen key data centers in Hillsboro back over to Portland, but provides an important diverse alternative to existing infrastructure. As a followup, MOX plans to build up to Seattle as well. [Read more →]

There’s no such thing as too much subsea bandwidth, or at least there isn’t when you’re Google. The tech giant announced yesterday yet another new subsea cable project, this time under the Atlantic. [Read more →]

CenturyLink has picked up a bit of government business in the desert southwest. The State of Arizona has awarded the company a new AZNet contract for connectivity and managed IT. [Read more →]