Tuesday Roundup: Consolidated, Astrape, and a Power Outage

April 29th, 2025
 

A couple interesting announcements plus a major power outage: [Read more →]

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Monday Bytes: MCG, EPB, CityFibre, Helium, AT&T

April 28th, 2025
 

A bit of vendor M&A, some quantum, some FTTx, and some WiFi: [Read more →]

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Precision planning and smart operations are key to stepping up environmentally sustainable FTTH networks

April 25th, 2025
 

This Industry Viewpoint was authored by Jay Cadman, SVP Americas, IQGeo

Over the last few months, we’ve seen a number of major corporations scale back their sustainability initiatives, citing economic pressures. From cutting investment in renewables to rolling back commitments on plastic reduction, environmental priorities are being sidelined in favor of short-term financial stability. [Read more →]

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Network Roundup: Lumen, Arelion, Gold Data, GNX, Nokia, T-Mobile US

April 24th, 2025
 

Network news from the US, Mexico, and the Middle East to catch up with: [Read more →]

Network news from the US, Mexico, and the Middle East to catch up with: [Read more →]

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Wednesday Bytes: euNetworks, Microsoft, Logix, CSignum

April 23rd, 2025
 

A new CEO, a new data center, a backoffice upgrade, and some new tech: [Read more →]

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Tuesday Roundup: Aligned, Khazna, Ericsson, Amazon

April 22nd, 2025
 

Two data center projects, some 5G SA progress, and a bit of caution: [Read more →]

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Last Mile Roundup: Archtop, Brightspeed, Windstream, Ritter, Logix

April 21st, 2025
 

Eight bits of last mile news from five companies to catch up on from around the US last week: [Read more →]

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Are We Overestimating the Power of AI?

April 18th, 2025
 

This Industry Viewpoint was authored by Jamie Dobson, founder of Container Solutions and author of ‘The Cloud Native Attitude’

While the telecoms sector can’t know when it will need to deal with curve balls such as the next pandemic, one thing is sure – new technology needs to be watched closely. AI is never far from the headlines, triggering both concern and excitement; some fear for the future of the human workforce while others see a bright future where we’re all prompt engineers. But are we getting caught up in the hype, or are we failing to see the bigger picture? [Read more →]

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Int’l Bytes: Colt, RETN, AMS-IX, Ciena, Sparkle

April 17th, 2025
 

A bit of data center M&A, two expansion projects, an upgrade, and some R&D news: [Read more →]

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FiberLight to Buy MFN

April 16th, 2025
 

There was some interesting metro fiber M&A this week along the eastern seaboard of the US. Fiberlight has found a means to expand its footprint in Virginia, signing a definitive agreement to acquire Metro Fiber Networks. [Read more →]

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Metro Bytes: Bluebird, Boldyn, Comcast Business, Xantaro, Freedom Fibre, Qwilt

April 15th, 2025
 

Five bits of last mile and middle mile news from the US and beyond over the last few days: [Read more →]

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Industry Spotlight: Foresight’s Dr. Atif Ansar on AI in Data Center Construction

April 14th, 2025
 

With AI driving data center demand in virtually every imaginable market, we are seeing major new projects almost daily. The scale of the work, whether envisioned or already underway, is far beyond anything we have seen before, and making it all happen will be challenging. New technologies are emerging     to help the process, and AI itself may be able to help. With us today is Dr. Atif Ansar, co-founder and executive chairman at Foresight. Foresight’s SaaS platform leverages AI and machine learning to keep data center construction projects on schedule. [Read more →]

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Protecting IoT Infrastructure in a Post-Quantum World

April 11th, 2025
 

This Industry Viewpoint was authored by Avishay Shraga, Sr. Director (CTO), Head of Security Technologies at Sony Semiconductor Israel

The key to modern asymmetric cryptography is to create an equation that is easy to solve in one direction but difficult to reverse by an adversary in the other direction. Traditionally, this was done through modular arithmetic, where a large prime modulus and a generator were used to generate a key, although [Read more →]

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Last Mile Roundup: DigitalC, CityFibre, Xantaro, Wildanet, Elevate

April 10th, 2025
 

Five bits of FTTx news, one in the Midwest, one in the Midatlantic, and three in the UK from this week’s news: [Read more →]

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Microsoft Reels In Columbus AI Data Center Expansion

April 9th, 2025
 

It seems as if a day doesn’t go by without another billion dollar data center campus project getting announced. But yesterday we saw one go the other way all of a sudden. Microsoft has pulled back from its plans to build three data center campuses in the Columbus OH metro area. [Read more →]

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Tuesday Bytes: Colt DCS, Sparkle, Nokia, Comcast Business

April 8th, 2025
 

Two infrastructure expansion projects and two customer wins; [Read more →]

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Industry Spotlight: FiberLight CEO Bill Major on AI Demand and Fiber

April 7th, 2025
 

Artificial Intelligence is driving investments in infrastructure of all types, although its direct impact is felt the most with data centers.  But all these new facilities need fiber connectivity, and the high fiber counts and extra diversity hyperscalers were looking for are now just table stakes.  FiberLight is one of the regional fiber specialists looking to meet the next wave of demand.  With us today to talk about FiberLight’s expansion plans and viewpoint on growing demand for fiber from AI is CEO Bill Major.  We talked to Bill a year ago, but it has certainly seemed like a particularly long year. [Read more →]

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Friday Roundup: 1547, T5, DataDog, NOVOS FiBER

April 4th, 2025
 

Four expansion projects in four markets, both organic and inorganic, to catch up with: [Read more →]

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FLAG is Back

April 3rd, 2025
 

An iconic brand has been reborn in the world of subsea cable operators. Global Cloud Xchange has announced that it is rebranding, and will now be known as FLAG. [Read more →]

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Lightpath Moves Into Columbus

April 2nd, 2025
 

Lightpath has announced its entry into a new metro fiber market. Backed by a major hyperscaler partner, the infrastructure provider will be building 102 route miles of fiber and conduit in Columbus OH. [Read more →]

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Tuesday Bytes: NTT DATA, Pulsant, Quad State

April 1st, 2025
 

Three interesting projects from three different corners of the infrastructure sector to catch up with: [Read more →]

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Moving AI Data Center Development Literally Offshore?

March 31st, 2025
 

A Japanese consortium is preparing to demonstrate an offshore data center facility aimed at the next generation of AI. By offshore, they mean literally floating in the water. The project is expected to kick off in the fall of this year. [Read more →]

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Friday Roundup: InfraPartners, Lumen, Ciena, Flexential, Megaport

March 28th, 2025
 

An AI data center expansion, a technology trial, and two interconnection partnerships: [Read more →]

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