Telecom Ramblings

While intercity fiber buildouts have sprung up in recent years, it has still been several decades since there has been a project that successfully spanned the continent, though Allied Fiber certainly made one attempt to rally folks. But today we have a new entrant into that space. 3Red8 today announced plans for a fiberoptic transport network from coast to coast as well as from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico. [Read more →]

Five bits of interesting news from around the industry as well as the globe: [Read more →]

Meta, the company we used to call Facebook, has unveiled a massive infrastructure investment out in Missouri. The company plans to build out a new $800M hyperscale data center in Kansas City. [Read more →]

The second piece of the Havhingsten news from the Irish and North Seas dropped on Friday from Aqua Comms. The subsea network operator has officially launched two intra-European subsea cable systems: CeltixConnect-2 and North Sea Connect. The two cable systems are Aqua Comms’ piece of the Havhingsten system whose completion was announced by partner Bulk Infrastructure and Meta last week. [Read more →]

Two bits of interconnection news, an optical upgrade, and a new edge data center customer: [Read more →]

This Industry Viewpoint was authored by Shirin Esfandiari, Product Marketing Director for Oracle Communications

5G promises lightning-fast speeds, near 100 percent availability and reliability, and strong security from the network core to the edge. However, building the mobile network foundation needed to support a national and even a global 5G infrastructure is a huge undertaking. [Read more →]

Connectivity to Scandinavia has been evolving rapidly in recent years, and this morning got a little more diverse. Aqua Comms, Bulk Fiber Networks, and Meta announced this morning the completion of the Havhingsten cable system. [Read more →]

Four bits of expansion news, two from the data center side and two from the network operator side: [Read more →]

According to an announcement yesterday, OneWeb has a new launch partner lined up. They have entered into an agreement with none other than Elon Musk’s SpaceX. [Read more →]

Multiple interesting infrastructure moves, both organic and inorganic, from around the industry from the start of this week: [Read more →]

Some data center M&A to the south, an organic expansion project to the north, and a wireless data deployment across the sea: [Read more →]

Lightpath’s plans for the Boston metro area continue to grow. The metro fiber provider has unveiled a 75-mile buildout to the west of the city, bringing their network to key suburban markets all the way out to the outer I-495 beltway. [Read more →]

This Industry Viewpoint was authored by Bill Versen, President, Communications Market and Chief Marketing Officer of Transaction Network Services (TNS)

In the interest of not burying the lead, let’s state the obvious: robocalls are not going to disappear anytime soon. Americans received nearly 79 billion robocalls in 2021, down 26% compared to the 106.9 billion robocalls Americans received at the pre-pandemic peak in 2019 but undeniably a mind-numbing total that cannot simply be unwound overnight. [Read more →]

Some subsea and longhaul items worth checking out from this week: [Read more →]

Verizon has won some very high profile federal business. The telecommunications giant has won three task orders worth as much as $966.5M to modernize network infrastructure for the US Department of Defense in and around Washington DC. [Read more →]

We got a bit of color for an RDOF project down in Texas this week via two announcements from Pampa-based Resound Networks. The company is bringing both fiber and fixed wireless to bear on the problem, expanding its reach into new markets across the state of Texas. [Read more →]

A few more interesting items at midweek worth noting: [Read more →]

A new data center project, a private 5G network for a mine, and a backoffice upgrade: [Read more →]

Arelion has lined up a partner to help it take on Latin America. They have teamed up with Gold Data to expand their reach into Central America, South America, and the Caribbean. Specifically mentioned were Mexico, Guatemala, Panama, Dominican Republic and Costa Rica. [Read more →]

Four bits of infrastructure and ecosystem expansion from around the world from last week worth catching up with: [Read more →]

This Industry Viewpoint was authored by Amit Kumar Dash, Chief Architect in CTO Office, Core Networks Technology & Platform, Nokia Cloud and Network Services

In 2021, the building out of 5G networks across the globe saw a significant acceleration. That said, the telecoms industry promises many other significant developments that will make this year just as, if not more important. I have been having many conversations over the past many months with decision-makers at communications service providers (CSPs) and other industry partners. From these discussions, here are five developments below worth tracking in 2022 and beyond. [Read more →]

From around the US this week come a couple of expansion moves, a couple of federal grants, and a green commitment: [Read more →]

A few interesting network and gear announcements from around the industry this week: [Read more →]