Telecom Ramblings

This Industry Viewpoint was authored by Frank Cittadino, SVP of Edge Services at Zayo

The transition to a digital-first society has accelerated rapidly in the past several years. With more work happening remotely and people connecting through online channels, navigating life in a dispersed world has made consumers more dependent on digital technologies. [Read more →]

The Irish wholesale provider Enet says it will be investing more than €50m in its fiber reach. That’s in addition to the investments they’ve already completed within their Dublin metro network. The buildouts are planned to take place over the next 5 years. [Read more →]

Two new data centers in the southwestern US, and two expansions in eastern Europe. [Read more →]

Lumen will have a new CEO in place when election day rolls around 8 weeks from now. Current CEO Jeff Storey will be retiring, and the company is bringing in some outside talent to take his place. Kate Johnson has been named as Storey’s successor, and will take over on November 7 of this year. [Read more →]

Three data center moves, each from a different continent, and some 5G rollout prep in southeast Asia: [Read more →]

One subsea update, some satellite launch plans, and a couple of metro expansions. [Read more →]

Some metro and FTTH news as well as a new data center in the Far East: [Read more →]

This Industry Viewpoint was authored by Ellen Velickovska, Co-Founder & Managing director at telXira

With the development of simple, effective and reliable application-to-person (A2P) SMS messaging services, there is a significant opportunity for enterprises to improve communications with their customers. [Read more →]

While it hasn’t dipped its toes into the M&A world for a while, Cogent Communications does like a good deal. And they appear to have found a big one one, pending what has to be a pretty hairy integration project.  The backbone operator has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire T-Mobile’s wireline business for one dollar. [Read more →]

The data center, cloud, and connectivity provider Flexential has unveiled plans for a major expansion of its footprint in the Pacific Northwest. Yesterday they announced a development project outside Portland, Oregon in Hillsboro. And helping them with the project is T5 Data Centers. [Read more →]

A quick roundup at midweek: [Read more →]

The US may have been at the beach for a long weekend, but the rest of the world seems to have kept busy enough.  Here are three bits of news from around the globe, and especially undersea: [Read more →]

This Industry Viewpoint was authored by Pravin S. Bhandarkar, Founder and CEO, RtBrick

The metaverse is here to stay. Whether you’re a big fan, or you think it’ll all come crumbling down on Zuckerberg, the virtual platform has opened the eyes of many consumers and businesses. However, as we embrace this new digital world, one critical issue remains unanswered: how will it all be connected? [Read more →]

A data center expansion project, a new fiber backhaul project, and a significant new SASE effort: [Read more →]

Four expansions and an HQ move announced this week from around the US: [Read more →]

Two industry giants are leveraging advances in software defined networking and automation in general to deepen their relationship. Orange has expanded its telco cloud footprint by leveraging Equinix’s Bare Metal as a Service capabilities. [Read more →]

Three upgrade projects of differing types, plus some M&A news in the data center space from over the weekend or late last week: [Read more →]

This Industry Viewpoint was authored by Todd Kiehn, SVP Global Product Management, GTT

When the world hit pause during the pandemic, home offices, remote work, and the adoption of cloud-based business applications created new avenues of attack for cybercriminals. Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, malware, ransomware, and other criminal and disruptive activity surged [Read more →]

One M&A, one expansion, one new tenant, and one vendor win: [Read more →]

Over the past decade we have seen a major shift in the ecosystem of global internet exchanges from the massively centralized to the globally decentralized. This week plans were announced for another IX, this time in Nigeria via a partnership between AMS-IX and MDXi. [Read more →]

A subsea cable splice, a new global partnership, and a key M&A regulatory hurdle cleared: [Read more →]

It’s not too often someone takes the plunge across the border in internet infrastructure within mainland China, but the data center space is one place it does happen now and then. According to Bloomberg, the two private equity firms Macquarie and Warburg Pincus are apparently close to making such an effort to invest in Bohao Internet Data Services. [Read more →]

This Industry Viewpoint was authored by Maria Lema, Co-Founder, Weaver Labs

With the UK quickly becoming one of the most optimal places to invest in telecoms innovation, the existing deployment model has not been effective in coordinating communication and integration within the telecoms supply chain. This lack of consensus in the industry led the government to develop [Read more →]