Telecom Ramblings

Zayo has won the competition to acquire Crown Castle’s fiber business, fulfilling the rumors that have been spilling out since January. On Friday, the infrastructure provider announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Crown’s fiber assets, customers, etc for $4.25B. Meanwhile, in a parallel but separate deal, EQT will acquire Crown Castle’s small cell business. [Read more →]

With the rise of AI has come vast investments in new data centers around the world.  But still getting less attention is how all that AI infrastructure will be connected to itself and to everything else.  But network operators are definitely gearing up to take on the challenge.  With us today to talk about GTT’s approach is Gary Sidhu, SVP for Product Engineering. [Read more →]

This Industry Viewpoint was authored by Rajiv Papneja, CTO of Prodapt

Expect many enterprises to realize ROI from their AI investments

This year will be about taking the AI impact from Proof to Value. Businesses will lay a sharp focus on measuring the impact of AI adoption. A new range of customer success KPIs will emerge. For example, [Read more →]

An expansion, an upgrade, a venue, and a new speed trial: [Read more →]

A couple contract wins and two bits of expansion news from around the globe this week: [Read more →]

Today’s update is a bit late due to a few technical difficulties, but better late than never. [Read more →]

Three regional projects and one international: [Read more →]

This Industry Viewpoint was authored by Shabahat Shakeel, Head of Business Development, WaveMaker

The telecom industry is at the cusp of transformation, driven by advancements in 5G, edge computing, and IoT. At the heart of this transformation lies the concept of network APIs. [Read more →]

A new subsea cable, some dollars for data centers, a new infrastructure division, and fiber to the middle of a frozen lake: [Read more →]

Two interesting metro fiber questions were answered this week by a bit of fiber M&A. Lightpath has announced the acquisition of WANRack’s business in Phoenix, Arizona. [Read more →]

With MWC underway over in Barcelona, there is lots of partnership news out there as well as plenty of vendor announcements: [Read more →]

The communications and media space has been quite a dynamic environment over the past few years as companies balance both internal and external transformations.  But the arrival of AI is just accelerating everything.  Professional services companies, like Accenture, are right in the middle of all of it with both a ringside seat and a hand in the changes themselves.  With us today to talk about the state of the sector and look at where things tend to be going is Dan Rice, Accenture’s Communications and Media Lead for the USA. [Read more →]

This Industry Viewpoint was authored by Kevin Sheehan, CTO of the Americas, Ciena

It’s nearly impossible to avoid artificial intelligence (AI) in our day-to-day anymore. What started as a bit of a gimmick, or centered on creating humor, is now beginning to show up all around us. Many initially feared that AI would be centered on cost cutting and eliminating jobs, but it is turning out to be squarely [Read more →]

Five significant buildouts and upgrades to note from metros around the US: [Read more →]

News from around the world plus the American southwest: [Read more →]

With MetroConnect underway down in Florida, there should be plenty of regional and last mile news to take a look at this week.  Here’s a start: [Read more →]

The vision of building a subsea cable that leverages shorter routes through the Arctic Ocean to connect Europe, Asia, and North America has been around for a while. Making that vision reality has been elusive, but recent moves suggest it might not be that far off now. A collection of companies and other entities with infrastructure experience in that part of the world have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to explore a Pan-Arctic Cable System (PACS). [Read more →]

Plenty of infrastructure news from around the industry this week to catch up with: [Read more →]

Three vendor wins, an IX, and a new data center project: [Read more →]

Two subsea cable projects, a wireless infrastructure upgrade, and an AI expansion: [Read more →]

Two regional fiber items and three international upgrades: [Read more →]

When it comes to subsea cables, there are short ones, long ones, really long ones, and now there is Project Waterworth. Over the weekend, Meta announced its latest subsea cable infrastructure project that would span 50,000km and connect the east coast of the US with the west coast of the US, via, well, everywhere. [Read more →]

A few international news bytes before the long weekend: [Read more →]