Telecom Ramblings

The coronavirus pandemic has caused companies throughout the data center and telecom industries to re-evaluate their 2020 go-to-market plans and quickly pivot their strategies.  Jaymie Scotto & Associates (JSA), a PR and marketing agency exclusively servicing our industry and a longtime friend of Telecom Ramblings, has been busy all throughout this uniquely difficult spring season helping companies shore up their digital presence and increase lead generation. With us today is Jaymie Scotto Cutaia herself, founder and CEO of JSA, to talk about JSA’s evolving approach to connecting telecom and internet infrastructure clients with their target audiences in the wake of COVID-19. [Read more →]

The UK may see some consolidation in the UK networking market, and it’s beyond the rumor stage. Telefonica has confirmed that it is in talks with Liberty Global to combine their respective UK operating companies into a larger, more competitive player. [Read more →]

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

This is the first in a two-part series about trends that are accelerating the adoption of edge infrastructure and broadening the use cases of edge computing. This column (Part 1) focused on how the COVID-19 pandemic is driving the [Read more →]

Four bits of expansion news from around the network world worth noting as we end the week: [Read more →]

This Industry Viewpoint was authored by Walter Kenrich, Senior Product Line Management Director for Analytics & SaaS Applications, Ribbon Communications

As unified communications (UC) adoption grows, so too does the number of bad actors who prey on its vulnerabilities. We’ve seen attacks on voice, messaging, video conferencing and collaboration applications skyrocket recently, as adversaries [Read more →]

Some news from around the world worth noting, with two vendor wins, some new features deployed, and a bit of expansion: [Read more →]

Even when the news is good, the future is behind a veil. That is the message I get from Akamai’s quarterly earnings yesterday. [Read more →]

There has been some interesting network M&A in the direction of Latin America this morning. Transtelco has announced the acquisition of Neutrona Networks, significantly expanding its reach and focus. [Read more →]

Two data center expansion items, one vendor win overseas, and some fiber M&A news from the Midwest: [Read more →]

Is it Monday again?  I’m truly losing track.  Here’s a quick rundown of some news to start off the week: [Read more →]

This Industry Viewpoint was authored by RingCentral’s Sam O’Brien.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is one of the most exciting tech developments of recent decades. What makes AI so compelling and potentially transformative is its range of uses. Different AI tools are getting implemented across sectors to support diverse business processes. [Read more →]

Everyone may still be sheltering in place or whatever, but Digital Colony has managed to keep busy nevertheless. The investment arm of Colony Capital has a new infrastructure target in its sights: Brazil. Digital Colony has announced an agreement to acquire a selection of data center assets from Brazil’s Group Folha’s UOL Diveo unit. [Read more →]

The lockdown continues, but so does the news.  Next week we start learning the bad news about quarterly earnings across the sector.  Here are a few quick takes: [Read more →]

A little of everything today to keep up with: [Read more →]

Two items from the cloud CDN space, one new CEO, and a spectrum licensing modification: [Read more →]

Just before all the craziness started, I was invited down to Ashburn, Virginia for QTS‘s first Analyst Day to learn more about the company’s progress and direction. Afterward, events kind of blurred together and suddenly it’s mid-April and it seems like a new world for almost everyone. But for data center operators like QTS [Read more →]

This Industry Viewpoint was contributed by Kristen Menard of Claro Enterprise Solutions

A sales executive has a few hours to kill between meetings, so she camps out at a coffee shop to catch up on emails and review sales reports. Accessing the café’s public WiFi network, however, leaves sensitive account information vulnerable to hackers. Meanwhile, [Read more →]

Lockdown continues, but so does the day to day business in internet infrastructure around the world.  Here’s some more quick takes: [Read more →]

Time for a quick look around the sector’s news from the first half of the week.  Here are three items from vendors, and one from BK court: [Read more →]

Amid all the pandemic-related economic disruption out there has been a meteoric rise in the unemployment rate. The perception is that this is mostly due to hourly and contract workers in ‘non-essential’ industries. But here in telecommunications and internet infrastructure, which is pretty much holding the world together right now, we’re safe… right? Yesterday,  Dish Network offered an opinion to the contrary. [Read more →]

Today’s networks depend on software more than ever, and because of that we have seen the big networking vendors invest heavily in their software divisions.  The rollout of 5G infrastructure underway, and along with the fiber and spectrum and hardware requires a whole lot of software to make it all work the way it has been promised.  Nokia Software is one of the organizations behind much of that software.  With us today to talk about Nokia Software’s approach to this brave new world and his viewpoint on what is to come is Nokia Software’s CTO, Ron Haberman. [Read more →]

I managed to miss this one from earlier this week, but better late than never, right? Vantage Data Centers has made an inorganic move over in the UK. On Tuesday they announced a definitive agreement to acquire Next Generation Data. [Read more →]

It’s difficult to filter the news these days without going too far down the rabbit hole of coronavirus.  I mean, that’s news obviously but other people do that part far better.  But nevertheless, here goes another quick survey of things going on in the telecom and internet infrastructure space – two driven by the pandemic and one determinedly forging ahead despite them. [Read more →]