Telecom Ramblings

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 →]

A few expansions and contract wins from around the globe to catch up with: [Read more →]

The pandemic continues, but so does telecom and internet infrastructure.  Here are a few items from the start of this week to keep up with: [Read more →]

That there are actually coronavirus conspiracy theories out there that are being taken seriously by way too many isn’t really news. But that one of them involves telecommunications, meaning that we caused it, well that got my attention yesterday. [Read more →]

Data centers and the cloud sit at the heart of modern infrastructure, and thus are a natural focus when it comes to discussions about security.  With us today to share his perspective is DataBank’s Chief Information Security Officer Mark Houpt.  Mark accompanied a delegation led by the Kansas City Tech Council to a TECNA DC Fly-in event in Washington DC in early February, before COVID-19 shut down much of the country.  They were there to provide input on the development of privacy legislation for the US that would take aim at similar issues as Europe’s GDPR, as well as to discuss top security concerns that today’s internet infrastructure faces. Also included in this Industry Spotlight are his thoughts on the pandemic as it relates to cybersecurity. [Read more →]