Int’l Bytes: Sparkle, NTT DATA, Ribbon, Airtel, RETN, Chief

October 29th, 2024
 

Four technology deployments by global operators to catch up with: [Read more →]

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Industry Spotlight: EdgeUno Seizes Terrestrial Fiber Opportunity

October 28th, 2024
 

Over the past decade, we have seen infrastructure investments in Latin America growing rapidly but with most of it going into data centers and subsea cables.  But markets across the continent are maturing, and EdgeUno sees an opportunity.  The infrastructure and cloud provider plans to leverage its footprint across the continent as it builds out diverse, new, longhaul terrestrial fiber between the markets it serves.  With us today to talk about their approach and the opportunity they see is CEO Mehmet Akcin. [Read more →]

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Friday Roundup: Connectbase, Ziply, RETN, ODATA

October 25th, 2024
 

One bit of M&A and three organic expansion moves from around the industry to finish off the week: [Read more →]

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Transforming a Telecom Supply Chain Into a Ready-for-Anything Digital Powerhouse

October 25th, 2024
 

How progressive digital approaches are helping telcos resolve five of their biggest supply chain headaches

This Industry Viewpoint was authored by SAP’s Gary Pan [Read more →]

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Wednesday Bytes: Lumen, ODATA, Accord, GlobalNet, Windstream

October 23rd, 2024
 

Infrastructure news from around the world at midweek: [Read more →]

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Tuesday Roundup: Gateway, Tarana, maincubes, Macquarie

October 22nd, 2024
 

Some FTTx, some fixed wireless, some data center development, and some funding: [Read more →]

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Industry Spotlight:  1547’s John Bonczek on the Carrier Hotel Opportunity

October 21st, 2024
 

The data center business is not a monolithic collection of servers and power, there are many types of facilities out there making up the broader infrastructure ecosystem. One of the longest running but too often neglected in the AI era is that of the carrier hotel and interconnection hub. With us today is John Bonczek, CRO at 1547 Critical Systems Realty. Early on in 1547 CSR’s development we had the company’s CEO and Managing Director J. Todd Raymond here for a chat about their plans. Let’s find out what the company has been up to since. [Read more →]

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Friday Bytes: Arcadian, 1547CSR, DataBank, Uniti

October 18th, 2024
 

Four significant infrastructure moves we will have to keep an eye on from this week’s news: [Read more →]

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Sparkle Joins Liberty, Gold to Build MANTA

October 17th, 2024
 

The western Caribbean could be getting some new subsea fiber infrastructure soon. Sparkle has joined Gold Data and Liberty Networks to construct and commercialize the MANTA regional system. [Read more →]

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Int’l Bytes: EXA, Arelion, HGC, Orange Business

October 16th, 2024
 

A set of interesting global investments and customer wins: [Read more →]

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Regional Roundup: Wyyerd, 123Net, FirstLight, Fidium, Pulse, Adtran

October 15th, 2024
 

Here is a set of regional infrastructure news to catch up with: [Read more →]

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Int’l Bytes: EXA, HGC, VITRO, RETN, AMS-IX, GTT

October 14th, 2024
 

Four bits of expansion news from Europe and Asia to keep up with: [Read more →]

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Windstream, Nokia, Colt Take 800GbE Subsea

October 14th, 2024
 

Three industry leaders teamed up for some big bandwidth between continents. Nokia, Windstream Wholesale, and Colt Technology Services recently put the latest technology to work in an 800GbE trial between continents. [Read more →]

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4 Reasons Why Network Disaggregation is Non-Partisan

October 11th, 2024
 

This Industry Viewpoint was authored by Richard Brandon, VP of Strategy at RtBrick

The 2024 Trump vs. Harris election presents numerous polarizing issues that teeter headlines daily, including how federal spending should be allocated. Funding within the telecom and broadband space has been an issue of contention for years, most recently playing out in political moves like Trump’s rip-and-replace program, which aimed to eliminate outdated systems, and Biden’s BEAD program, meant to aid the digital divide. [Read more →]

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Regional Roundup: Zayo, KWIKOM, Centranet, Nokia, DC BLOX, MCG

October 10th, 2024
 

Four projects of regional and metro scope to talk about today: [Read more →]

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Int’l Bytes: Vodafone, Google, Nokia, NTT DATA, Ciena, Sify, EdgeConneX

October 9th, 2024
 

Four bits of teamwork from around the world putting next generation infrastructure to work: [Read more →]

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Metro Bytes: Infinera, Poka Lambro, 123NET, Beanfield, DZS, Evocative, Duos, Accu-Tech

October 8th, 2024
 

Some items of regional interest worth keeping up with: [Read more →]

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FTTx Roundup: Archtop, Empire, Burlington Telecom, Point Broadband

October 7th, 2024
 

Four bits of last mile news, three from the northeast and one from the southeast: [Read more →]

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NaaS, Expert Guidance and Seamless Connectivity: Long-Term Network Success for Enterprises

October 4th, 2024
 

This Industry Viewpoint was authored by Mark Daley, Director of Digital Strategy & Business Development at Epsilon

Each year, the digital world grows more advanced, allowing enterprises to connect to services, partners, and customers across the globe within seconds. Network as a Service (NaaS) plays an essential role in enabling this digital ecosystem, with Mordor Intelligence predicting the market to grow from $14.46 billion in 2024 to $78.38 billion in 2029, with a CAGR of over 32%. [Read more →]

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euNetworks Unveils Another Superhighway

October 3rd, 2024
 

The pan-European bandwidth infrastructure company euNetworks has been busy. They have lifted the curtains on a new ‘Super Highway’ route that takes on one of the most data-intensive infrastructure corridors in the world: Amsterdam to Frankfurt. [Read more →]

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Who will buy Crown Castle’s Fiber?

October 3rd, 2024
 

The news is alite with the possibility that Crown Castle might sell off its fiber and small cell business. Supposedly competing in the process are Zayo Group (backed by EQT and DigitalBridge) and TPG, and the price tag attached to the rumor is in the $10B neighborhood. A deal might not happen, but we know enough about this sort of thing now to be able to tell that there likely is fire under that smoke. [Read more →]

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Segra Buys Everstream’s St. Louis Fiber

October 2nd, 2024
 

A nice chunk of fiber infrastructure has changed hands out in the Midwest. Yesterday, Segra and Everstream announced the acquisition of Everstream’s St. Louis footprint by Segra, which is owned by Cox Communications. [Read more →]

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