Telecom Ramblings

This has been a year of extraordinary events for everyone, but for those near the recent fires out West, it has been even more so. As a regional fiber provider with network in Oregon and neighboring states, Hunter Communications has had to deal with not just the COVID-19 pandemic, but raging wildfires across its service territory as well. Grain Management took a majority position in the company this past spring, and Hunter recently embarked on an FTTH journey as well. With us today to talk about those experiences and its view of the marketplace overall is CEO Michael Wynschenk. [Read more →]

Some metro and regional news, one from New England, the other from the Southeast. [Read more →]

This Industry Viewpoint was authored by Darach Beirne, Vice President of Customer Success at Flowroute, now part of Intrado

Businesses across the globe are still adapting to organizational changes put into place because of the ongoing pandemic and they’re shifting their IT investments accordingly. Many companies have migrated to cloud-based communication systems and workplace tools to maintain continuity, improve remote collaboration across teams and enhance interactions with customers. However, [Read more →]

I almost hesitate to check domestic news right now, but luckily there’s plenty of international items to keep up with: [Read more →]

Western Africa has long been one of those places in the world where bandwidth comes from the ocean, not the land. Yesterday at the AfricaTech Festival, Orange made a move to change all that by announcing a pan-West African fiber network. [Read more →]

The Midwestern fiber builder and operator Everstream is expanding eastward into Pennsylvania, and they’re doing it the fast way. Today they announced a definitive agreement to acquire both fiber and customers from Uniti that will give the company an instant presence across the state. [Read more →]

A couple new data centers, some metro fiber, and a submarine cable RFS: [Read more →]

Here’s a quick rundown on some news from late last week plus a new data center launch from this morning: [Read more →]

This one slipped past me somehow when it came out over the weekend, but better late than never. Stonepeak Infrastructure Partners has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Astound Broadband from TPG Capital and Patriot Media Management for $8.1B. [Read more →]

This thought leadership article was sponsored by QTS

An interesting transformation is taking place in the world of connectivity for  enterprises of all types. [Read more →]

The US may still be holding its breath, but the rest of the world is at least still going through the motions.  Here are two vendor wins, one NNI, and a traffic milestone: [Read more →]

The votes are still being counted, yada yada yada.  Meanwhile, here are three data center deals and a IaaS expansion worth not missing in the meantime: [Read more →]

The rest of the world may be in chaos, but the internet infrastructure world has been steady and strong.  And the data center provider QTS has been particularly solid, with Q3 revenues and FFO both exceeding analyst expectations.  The company has been on a nearly three year winning streak with the markets, gaining revenue momentum steadily.  With us today to update us on QTS’s status and future plans for the sector is Sean Baillie, Chief Marketing Officer. [Read more →]

It’s election day in the US, and in terms of news few here are likely to try to compete with that.  Luckily there is the rest of the world to look at, so here’s a quick look at some news from Europe worth noting from the start of this week: [Read more →]

One of the more remote spots in the world is a step closer to getting its own subsea fiber connection. The St Helena Government and Telecom Egypt have signed an agreement that will give the island in the South Atlantic that will connect Telecom Egypt’s network across a planned new branch of the Equiano system. [Read more →]

An inorganic data center move, an edge partnership, some channel news, and some XGS-PON: [Read more →]

This Industry Viewpoint was authored by Venkatesh Murthy, Executive Director Engineering at VCTI

Most successful business leaders and organizations are in a constant pursuit of excellence. They know that the world has become more competitive and that customers are more demanding. Frictionless, digital experiences, always on-always available-always high performing service and support, product information attune to individual preferences…these have become [Read more →]

A couple infrastructure upgrades, a win in the cloud, and a new sustainability effort: [Read more →]

Chayora has finally gone live over in the Beijing/Tianjin metro area in mainland China. After a long buildup, the developer and operator of hyperscale infrastructure has officially commenced live operations at its first facility. [Read more →]

There was a bit of consolidation in the data center sector today out in the Midwest. DartPoints has announced the acquisition of Metro Data Centers. [Read more →]

The US Deparment of Energy is upgrading its next generation science network with some help from Infinera. They will be building the next version of ESnet leveraging Infinera’s gear and software. [Read more →]

Here’s a set of network expansion quick takes from early this week and late last week that are worth noting. [Read more →]

In the world of telecommunications and internet infrastructure, we spend much of our time looking at Tier 1 markets, and most of the rest not too far away.  But there are also service providers doing the same work out where the biggest corporations are not to be found.  Blackfoot Communications is one such regional provider, serving markets across western Montana and eastern Idaho and reaching into the surrounding states.  With us today to talk about its unique position in the industry is Todd Twete, Blackfoot Carrier Services’ Director of Carrier Services. [Read more →]