Telecom Ramblings

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 →]

Five data center infrastructure projects, four from North America and one from the Middle East. [Read more →]

Four bits of news from the last mile of the fiber business around the US: [Read more →]

Might there be a day soon where the last major landmass on the Earth gets connected via subsea cable? Well, a project that would connect Chile with Antarctica is at least getting a feasibility study according to a release yesterday. [Read more →]

Four bits of infrastructure and related news from three continents: [Read more →]

Here is a series of news bytes covering regional infrastructure expansion projects from this week: [Read more →]

Interesting news items from Europe, southeast Asia, and the Middle East from the past several days: [Read more →]

There has been some consolidation activity in the fiber last mile this week. Gateway Fiber and WANRack have announced plans to merge into a national FTTX platform touching 25 states. [Read more →]

A new data center, a new subsea cable, a new branch, and some FTTH: [Read more →]

An upgrade, a new PoP, some datacenter investment, and a subsea cable project gets funded: [Read more →]