Telecom Ramblings

A new longhaul fiber builder has come out of stealth in the Rockies and Southwestern US. Arcadian Infracom announced late last week that it has raised its first round of funding for its plans to build out several longhaul fiber routes. [Read more →]

One contract win in Europe, one in India, and two bits of regional government success in the US: [Read more →]

The UCaaS space has been a lively one in recent years, as business increasingly embrace the technology and leave behind those legacy PBXs and such.  The ongoing shift has brought new names into the space, replacing many more traditional telecommunications names on lists like Gartner’s Magic Quadrant.  One such name that is holding strong is Windstream Enterprise, despite the financial headwinds at its parent company.  With us today to talk about Windstream’s approach to UCaaS is Cardi Prinzi, CMO and EVP at Windstream Enterprise.  Cardi joined Windstream earlier the year. [Read more →]

There is another infrastructure player in the mix as of this week. South Reach Networks has formally launched with a combination of metro and longhaul connectivity plus colocation down in Miami. South Reach is led by Michael Sevret, former EVP and Chief Strategy Officer for Cross River Fiber in New Jersey. [Read more →]

This Industry Viewpoint was written by Hayley Hughes and Wes Faulkenberry

The way we generally refer to UCaaS has significantly changed from its early beginnings of basic voice-only communications. Today, we believe UCaaS has evolved into “Integrated Enterprise Collaboration” with the acceleration of API integrations, CPaaS, customer engagement and collaboration tools. [Read more →]

A few news items worth keeping up with: [Read more →]

Somehow I didn’t see this one from over the weekend. Rumors are suggesting that EQT is in the market for some new infrastructure, engaging in talks with the edge data center provider EdgeConneX about a buyout. [Read more →]

A few deployments and contract wins from around the industry at midweek: [Read more →]

Two of the East Coast’s busiest cable landing stations have added a direct fiber connection between them. In an announcement with Windstream yesterday, NJFX and Telxius revealed the completion of a fiber link between Wall NJ and Virginia Beach VA. [Read more →]

A few items from around the sector to start off the week: [Read more →]

Interconnection, SDN, NFV, and a little M&A news: [Read more →]

This article was authored by C Omprakash, KS Dineshkumar, and A.B. Mogan of Prodapt Solutions

According to a McKinsey’s report, digital service providers (DSPs) have complex fundamental processes with multiple system integrations that are labor-intensive and highly expensive. TM Forum business process framework’s trouble to resolve (T2R) process provides a framework to deal with a trouble (issue) reported by the customer, then to diagnose the issue, to analyze, to identify the root cause of the problem, initiating resolution to meet customer satisfaction, monitoring progress and finally [Read more →]

Two deals and a war chest raised: [Read more →]

Here’s a midweek summary of some other news items worth noting: [Read more →]

Two of the networking world’s key organizations have joined forces to further advance SD-WAN. MEF and UNUG announced yesterday a collaboration aimed at accelerating development of MEF 3.0 standards and certification programs. [Read more →]

The upstart edge computing provider EdgeUno is teaming up with subsea cable operator Seaborn Networks. In an announcement yesterday, the two young companies expanded their relationship to delivering managed cloud services, deploying a unique virtualized cloud infrastructure starting in Brazil but aimed at the surrounding region as well. [Read more →]

Equinix has found a Latin American new market to get into, making an inorganic move across the Rio Grande into Mexico. At the end of last week the data center giant fulfilled rumors that had been circulating and announced plans to several data centers from the Mexican service provider Axtel. [Read more →]

The world of SD-WAN has been a fast paced one in the last couple of years, and there are many flavors of the technology out there coexisting under the same umbrella.  Yet each has its own unique approach and set of capabilities.  With us today to delve into the subject is Andy Gottlieb, VP of SD-WAN Solutions at Oracle Communications.  Andy was a co-Founder of SD-WAN pioneer Talari Networks, which Oracle bought late last year and integrated into its Communications business.  [Read more →]

Ciena has made another inorganic move on the software side of things. Yesterday the optical networking vendor announced its intent to acquire Centina. [Read more →]

This Industry Viewpoint was authored by Sanjay Goel, President of Global Services, Nokia

With the advent of 5G and Communications Service Providers (CSPs) transitioning to Digital Service Providers (DSPs), networks are about to become exponentially more complex. At the same time, customer expectations are higher than ever before, with security, efficiency and speed being the new normal. With this double dose [Read more →]

A few quick takes both national and global: [Read more →]

A few items from around the world to make note of: [Read more →]

Infrastructure funds have been active buyers of fiber lately, and EQT Infrastructure has been one of the hungriest. Earlier this week they struck again, this time over in Germany with the acquisition of inexio from Warburg Pincus. [Read more →]