Telecom Ramblings

This Industry Viewpoint was authored by Robert Bianco, Vice President of Business Development, HYLAN 

As we pass the one-year mark of the coronavirus pandemic, there are hopeful signs of light at the end of the tunnel on both the public health and economic fronts. [Read more →]

Two interesting financial moves, a new data center tenant, and some more IX capacity in India. [Read more →]

Texas has been one of the more dynamic network infrastructure markets over the last few years and has drawn increasing attention from both national and local operators.  The major DASH cities (Dallas/Ft. Worth, Austin, San Antonio and Houston) form their own regional market and LOGIX Fiber Networks has long been a specialist in serving it.  With us today is newly minted LOGIX CEO Craig Collins, who took the helm at the end of August 2020 and previously held key executive roles at Transit Wireless, Intermedia, XO, and TWC. [Read more →]

This Industry Viewpoint was authored by Vikram Takru, CEO of KloudGin

Safety is a top priority, but with a large mobile workforce and due to the nature of the work, the telecom industry faces increased risk. Working with electrical power, electromagnetic fields and optical fiber bring unique hazards to telecom technicians and engineers. Crews also [Read more →]

A few interesting items to catch up on from around the sector: [Read more →]

The eastern coast of the US is one step closer to a wet alternative to the I-95 corridor. Confluence Networks has sold an equity interest in the company to the infrastructure construction company MasTec Inc., raising the funds for a new submarine cable system along the eastern seaboard. [Read more →]

This Industry Viewpoint was authored by Todd Cushing, President, 1623 Farnam

Nebraska is the third-ranked corn producer in the United States and Omaha, its largest city, is 160 miles from the geographic center of the United States. The city is most famously known to be the cradle of a large insurance company and the home to a $250 billion multinational conglomerate holding company that sports its own oracle.  Basic elementary school facts. [Read more →]

We had a bit of interesting consolidation hit the news in the edge data center space today. DartPoints has announced an agreement to acquire Immedion, giving it a data center presence and boots on the ground in seven new edge markets. [Read more →]

I missed this last week, but apparently there will soon be some M&A in the north Atlantic. According to Capacity, Triple Point Investment management is launching a new company, Digital 9 Infrastructure, which plans to acquire Aqua Comms in a deal with Aqua Comms’ current shareholders. [Read more →]

Four interesting items emerged from the vendor community to start this week that are worth catching up on. [Read more →]

The network edge is the focus of great swathes of the industry today, and the more we look at it the wider the variety of approaches we see.  Different applications require different levels of proximity to the users, and the technology to make them happen isn’t always a miniaturization of the hyperscale world.  One company taking on the edge as far out as the equipment closet or the remote worker office is Veea.  With us today to talk about Veea’s approach to the ‘Device Edge’ is Kurt Michel, SVP of Marketing at Veea. [Read more →]

This Industry Viewpoint was authored by Artur Ostrowski, Chief Commercial Officer at Enxoo.

Software-defined wide-area networking (SD-WAN) is on the rise, with the global market size expected to grow from $1.4 billion in 2019 to $43 billion in 2030, at a CAGR of 38.6% (P&S Intelligence). The challenge for telcos is to match agile and software-centric network services with back office systems that move with new speed and scalability. [Read more →]

With its optical cable now in place, the transatlantic cable system EllaLink is now moving on to lighting its infrastructure. They have tapped Infinera to handle that part, looking to leverage the vendor’s ICE6 technology. [Read more →]

One SD-WAN deal, a certification, and two data center expansion stories to catch up with: [Read more →]

After taking a couple years off, Zayo has hopped back into the M&A driver’s seat. Yesterday the fiber builder and operator announced a definitive agreement to acquire Intelligent Fiber Network. Zayo only recently sold off its zColo division to DataBank, refocusing the business onto fiber. [Read more →]

Two bits of M&A, a joint ventur, and a partnership spread across the industry to keep up with: [Read more →]

The network edge continues to be a hot topic as we move deeper into 2021, as the business models many have put forth are now put to the test of actual deployment and scale.   One of the early visionaries in this space that is now building in earnest is Vapor IO, which has deep relationships with Crown Castle and last year added a partnership with Digital Realty as well.  With us today to talk about Vapor IO’s approach to the edge and where expects to go in the quarters and years ahead is founder and CEO Cole Crawford, joined by CMO Matt Trifiro. [Read more →]

Four interesting bits of data center news on three continents to close out the week: [Read more →]

This Industry Viewpoint was authored by Tony Doocey and Anthony Shaw of North Highland

In 2020, the kitchen table became the office and the home internet became the company IT system. In addition to dealing with a global pandemic, telcos bolstered their position as providers of critical national infrastructure overnight. It was evident as the pandemic exploded that even the most ardent digital natives were [Read more →]

Another day, another four bits of interesting news from over in Europe, with two from the Netherlands and two from the UK: [Read more →]

Three organic and one inorganic bits of expansion news on the metro and regional front: [Read more →]

Two bits of M&A news and one metro fiber market expansion: [Read more →]

The edge is where much of the action was last year, and where even more action will surely be in 2021.  One of the earliest proponents of building out data center space at the edge was EdgeConneX.  EdgeConneX was recently purchased by EQT and is entering into a new phase of growth, and just last week extended its presence to Asia for the first time via a new joint venture.  With us today to talk about the company’s outlook, the nature of the edge, and the effects of the pandemic on the industry is the company’s chief marketing officer, Phillip Marangella. [Read more →]