Telecom Ramblings

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 →]

The Midwestern regional fiber operator Everstream is making another acquisition. This morning they announced a definitive agreement to purchase the former LightBound fiber assets and CLEC business in Indianapolis, Indiana. [Read more →]

Several interesting items worth keeping track of: [Read more →]

Much of the coverage of this sector focuses on the technology and the infrastructure development, and much of the rest looks at the consumer side.  But the large enterprise marketplace and the IT professions within them have a lot to say as well about where we should be going, and one place you can hear them talk is at ONUG, the largest community of Global 2000 IT business leaders.  With us today to share a few insights into today’s tech and telecom world is Co-Founder Nick Lippis.  ONUG has played a key role in the rise of the SD-WAN and hybrid/multi-clouds and is looking to [Read more →]

This Industry Viewpoint was authored by David W Wang

At the end of Q3 of 2019, we continue to see SD-WAN adoption on the rise by enterprises across the globe. There are, however, some serious obstacles as well slowing down the growth. According to recent survey and reports on SD-WAN market status and trends released by IHS Markit, Masergy and IDG, security concern and skill gaps remain two primary hurdles in the way of SD-WAN adoption from enterprises and institutions. [Read more →]