Telecom Ramblings

This Industry Viewpoint was authored by Daria Batrakova, Director, Telecom Solutions, FNT Software  and Mark Gibson, Head of Product, Inmanta

Private 5G networks are moving from individual deployments toward a broader opportunity for communications service providers (CSPs). Enterprises across industries are looking for connectivity that can meet demanding requirements around latency, security, availability, and compliance. For CSPs, however, scaling these deployments [Read more →]

Some fiber, some AI, some nextgen gear, and some interconnection: [Read more →]

Three expansion projects and an upgrade from around the world: [Read more →]

Three data center bytes and one bit of fiber M&A news: [Read more →]

Fiber, vendor, and subsea news to catch up with: [Read more →]

A range of network rollout, upgrade, and trial activity from around the industry and the world to catch up with: [Read more →]

Some subsea expansion, an IX project, a new AI security launch, and some new $ going into AI digital infrastructure. [Read more →]

Some subsea, some private wireless, some data center, and some AI: [Read more →]

This Industry Viewpoint was authored by Pino G. Dicorato, Solution Marketing for Nokia’s Network Infrastructure optical network automation environment portfolio at Nokia.

By: Pino G. Dicorato Optical networks are carrying higher volumes of AI traffic and facing stricter demand around service availability, time-to-market pressure, and operational cost control expectations. Providers are also pushing optical infrastructure deeper into metro locations to support optimized performance and lower latencies for the rich data traffic associated with AI inferencing. [Read more →]

Three interesting infrastructure projects on three continents, one longhaul, one metro, and one campus: [Read more →]

Some regional fiber, some cloud connectivity, and some enterprise internet: [Read more →]

For many years now SUBCO has been busy building out infrastructure connecting Australia to itself and to the rest of the world. So today’s announcement that they plan to build not one, not two, but three new ‘hypercables’ is a surprise only in quantity. The new systems aim to meet the next wave of bandwidth demand from AI-driven growth. [Read more →]

Three upgrade projects, two below the waves and one back on land: [Read more →]

Some IX news, some FTTH, some VoIP, and some cybersecurity: [Read more →]

Two regional fiber buildouts, some financial network infrastructure, and a bit of FTTx: [Read more →]

EXA Infrastructure has plans for a new transatlantic cable system. Yesterday they launched EXA Meridian, which will connect the east coast of the US with the southwestern part of the UK. It will be the company’s 9th cable and will be built by EXA solo – no consortium needed. [Read more →]

Four interesting network upgrade projects: [Read more →]

A new data center project, a new IX, and some rural broadband expansion: [Read more →]

This Industry Viewpoint was authored by Tom Traugott, SVP of Emerging Technologies at EdgeCore Digital Infrastructure

For most of the AI boom, the limiting question was who could secure the most advanced chips. In August of this year, NVIDIA signaled that the challenge has moved beyond silicon. It announced memorandums of understanding with Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs, and KKR intended to mobilize more than $500 billion of third-party capital for AI infrastructure over time. The goal is to finance not just accelerators, but the broader systems required to turn them into usable compute. [Read more →]

Some vendor and IX news, an IX expansion, and two acquisitions in the data center services biz: [Read more →]

Long term deals for massive amounts of fiber seem to be a thing this year, and Corning is certainly enjoying it. Yesterday Verizon and Corning announced a multi-year, multi-billion dollar supply agreement targeting demand over the next six years or so. [Read more →]

Two from Latin America and two from Down Under: [Read more →]

This Industry Viewpoint was authored by Biju Anidil, Regional VP Sales, EMEA & APAC, Evergent

Every monetisation vendor, mine included, will tell you to modernise your BSS. You have heard it a hundred times, which is why most of you have not acted. The advice is not wrong. It is incomplete, and the missing part is the reason operators stay stuck. [Read more →]