Telecom Ramblings

FirstLight has found another inorganic way to expand its network in the northeastern USA. Today they announced a definitive agreement to acquire certain fiber assets of DFT Communications. [Read more →]

Internet infrastructure is essential to modern society, so there may be a pandemic but the trucks are still rolling, fiber and radios are still being deployed, and bandwidth demands are going nowhere but up.   That means engineering and construction firms like Hylan have been busy despite it all. With us today is Hylan Group CEO Joe Cecin to talk about what they’re seeing out there both on their side of things and around the ecosystem.  Joe joined the company in 2018, and took on his current role last year. [Read more →]

This Industry Viewpoint was authored by Kurt Michel, Senior Vice President, Marketing, Veea

Prior to the pandemic, the primary drivers of 5G were mobile broadband and the Internet-of-Things (IoT). IoT continues to fuel a need for massive device connectivity and data growth. However, with the pandemic, the demand for 5G solutions is accelerating. Both businesses and consumers want [Read more →]

Three network expansion items, and some government contract news from across the pond: [Read more →]

A few interesting items from around the world to keep up with at midweek: [Read more →]

Rick Calder is stepping down as CEO of GTT Communications next week after 13 years of leading the company. The company has begun a search for a replacement while putting in place a leadership group to run the company in the interim. [Read more →]

The worlds of cloud computing and of telecom and internet infrastructure are increasingly becoming integrated with each other.  Hence, trends like that of cloud native computing are quickly impinging on not just on applications that get delivered over internet infrastructure, but also on how that infrastructure is operated and maintained.  With us today to delve into those ideas is Dmitry Netis, Q Advisors’ Managing Director, Business Development.  Q Advisors specializes in M&A in the TMT space, but especially when it comes to the smaller, innovative technology players that are looking to shake things up. [Read more →]

Apparently I missed this one when it first came through, but better late than never! This week Segra completed an M&A down in North Carolina, acquiring longtime regional service provider NorthState. [Read more →]

This Industry Viewpoint was authored by Arco Versluis and Sathya Narayanan of Prodapt

Digital Service Provider’s (DSP’s) inventory data consisting of their assets and services is very critical to their operations. These assets grow every day making it more difficult to manage. Almost all the DSPs manually register their inventories once [Read more →]

Two from abroad, and two from the Midwest to keep up with: [Read more →]

Some metro fiber, a new CEO, an interconnection of IXs, and some cloud security: [Read more →]

That’s a long title, which is the result of four interesting partnership announcements and expansions, and hence eight companies working on things we should keep up with: [Read more →]

One corner of the industry that I don’t spend much time on but which is critical to the operations of everyone in the sector is OSS/BSS software and systems.  But as automation continues to reach deeper into everyone’s systems, it’s a subject that needs a bigger voice.  With us today to delve a little deeper is Artur Ostrowski, CCO of Enxoo.  Enxoo uses a Salesforce-based platform to target telco-specific needs for OSS/BSS. [Read more →]

In the past, when one built a submarine cable to serve African destinations, the first question others would ask about your project was ‘east or west?’ It was nearly always one or the other of course, but not this time. Yesterday, a high powered group of global tech and telecom operators announced plans to build 2Africa, which will do both, starting and ending in Europe. [Read more →]

The idea of one of the tech giants taking on telecommunications in a big way has always been an interesting ‘what if’ scenario, and occasionally some small piece of it happens. Yesterday was one of those days, as Microsoft announced a definitive agreement to buy Metaswitch Networks. [Read more →]

A few deployments and upgrades to keep an eye on: [Read more →]

Here’s a set of mid-week quick takes: [Read more →]

Some intercity fiber has changed hands down in the southeastern US. South Reach Networks has made an inorganic move, buying the fiber and colo assets of Resurgence Infrastructure Group. [Read more →]

Here are a few interesting bits of news from the start of the week worth noting quickly: [Read more →]

We may all have been sheltering in place, but last week there were a whole lot of folks from this sector taking on new jobs, particularly in the southeastern US.  Here’s a quick rundown of what some familiar faces have been up to: [Read more →]

This Industry Viewpoint was authored by Keith Rutledge, General Manager of Compass EdgePoint

This is the second in a two-part series about trends that are accelerating the adoption of edge infrastructure and broadening the use cases of edge computing. In Part 1, I focused on how the COVID-19 pandemic is driving the need for edge computing in a way that I believe will continue after the pandemic subsides This column builds on that discussion by discussing [Read more →]

This Industry Viewpoint was authored by Christof Hammerli, EVP at Landmark Dividend

Today’s landscape of global disruption has been affecting communities and businesses alike. In the aftermath of stay-at-home and quarantine policies, supply chain interruptions, event shutdowns, customer shortages and economic slowdowns, revenue is [Read more →]

With big buildout plans already underway throughout the Midwest, Everstream today turned to a fellow infrastructure company for a quick boost in its reach. They have announced a long term strategic fiber IRU with Uniti Fiber in Milwaukee. [Read more →]