Two other bits of fiber news from just before Easter weekend worth noting: [Read more →]
FCC may ban China Mobile from US market
April 22nd, 2019
This article was authored by Dylan Bushell-Embling, and was originally posted on telecomasia.net.
The chairman of the US FCC has urged the agency to reject China Mobile’s applications to provide telecom services in the US market on national security grounds, in the latest salvo in the telecom trade war between China and the US. [Read more →]
Retelit Goes Global
April 19th, 2019

There has been a lot of bandwidth news out of Italy lately, and yesterday it was Retelit’s turn. The network operator, once strictly an Italian concern, has both upgraded and added to its international connections, declaring itself to now be a ‘global operator’. [Read more →]
Technology Consolidation – A New Turn of SD-WAN Evolution
April 19th, 2019
This Industry Viewpoint was contributed by David W Wang
Since SD-WAN started to get traction in the telecom/IT market and industry from 2015-16, as more SD-WAN vendors entering the landscape, every year we’ve had predictions the market would undergo consolidation. [Read more →]
Thursday Roundup: Equinix, Orange, Calix, Windstream, Ciena
April 18th, 2019
Four items to keep an eye on: [Read more →]
Wednesday Bytes: Angola Cables, Infinera, DataBank
April 17th, 2019
A few news quick-takes worth keeping an eye on at midweek: [Read more →]
T-Mobile/Sprint Having Trouble Getting the DOJ Nod
April 17th, 2019
One year after T-Mobile and Sprint finally finished the preliminaries and announced a merger, the proposed deal is under fire. Few ever thought the deal would get through regulators unscathed, but now we’re finally getting to the details. [Read more →]
Google to Pay $3.84M to Undo Louisville Project’s Effects
April 16th, 2019
It’ll be a small, negligible piece of Google’s overall numbers, but yesterday’s announcement from the Louisville Metro Government is a reminder of why companies without Google’s deep pockets don’t often try unproven technologies for FTTH. Google Fiber will be paying $3.8M to clean up from its “nano-trenching” buildout in the Kentucky city. [Read more →]
Jio raising $3.89b for tower unit spinoff: report
April 16th, 2019
This article was authored by Dylan Bushell-Embling, and was originally posted on telecomasia.net.
The fiber network unit Reliance Jio Infocomm is reportedly planning to raise around 270 billion rupees ($3.89 billion) in syndicated loans to help expand the newly created [Read more →]
Tuesday Roundup: AMS-IX, TierPoint, Comcast
April 16th, 2019
A few quick takes worth keeping an eye on: [Read more →]
IFN Brings Wabash Valley Power into the Fold
April 15th, 2019
Earlier this month, Indiana-based Intelligent Fiber Network raised some funds and brought a new type of regional operator in as one of its owners. Wabash Valley Power has invested as part of a $13M capital raise and joins the coalition of 20 independent LECs that own IFN. [Read more →]
Sparkle to Build BlueMed
April 15th, 2019
Italy-based Sparkle has announced plans to invest in some new subsea capacity under the Tyrrhenian Sea. No I won’t make you google that, it’s the piece of the Mediterranean off the west coast of Italy, under which Sparkle plans to build the BlueMed cable system. [Read more →]
Is a Deal for Zayo Close? Very Possibly
April 12th, 2019
The ongoing bidding for Zayo is now said to have come down to a single consortium of investment firms. According to Reuters this week, a group led by Digital Colony Partners LP, EQT AB, and Stonepeak Infrastructure partners is the last man standing. [Read more →]
Keeping Pace with Innovation in the Era of Digital Transformation
April 12th, 2019
This Industry Viewpoint was contributed by Rob Shore, Senior Vice President of Marketing, Infinera
While IT organizations, new business models, and the customer experience tend to dominate the digital transformation headlines, the communications infrastructure underlying digital transformation is quietly but surely undergoing a paradigm shift. This shift includes a rethinking of [Read more →]
Thursday Bytes: Limelight, Infinera, Ericsson, DataBank
April 11th, 2019
Here’s a quick roundup of some news from around the world worth keeping an eye on: [Read more →]
H2 Taps Subcom For New Pacific Cable System
April 10th, 2019
SubCom has been chosen by Singaporean-based H2 Cable for a new APAC cable system. Subcom’s win on this APAC deal comes after a similar project by Huawei was nixxed by Australian regulators. The price tag of the project is expected to be $380M with an expected date in 2022. [Read more →]
Wednesday Roundup: NJFX, FirstLight, Hawaiki, PacketFabric
April 10th, 2019
A few interesting bits of infrastructure to keep an eye on: [Read more →]
China’s 5G investments may be slowing
April 10th, 2019
This article was authored by Dylan Bushell-Embling, and was originally posted on telecomasia.net.
While China is certain to be one of the world’s largest 5G markets and has been spending heavily to gain an early lead in 5G adoption, there are signs that 5G momentum is slowing down in the market. [Read more →]
Tuesday Roundup: Internap, Telco Systems, PacketFabric, Juniper
April 9th, 2019
A few items from around the sector from the start of this week: [Read more →]
CenturyLink to Hook Up NASA
April 9th, 2019
CenturyLink picked up a high profile federal contract yesterday. The network operator will be providing connectivity to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). [Read more →]
Industry Spotlight: Anova Financial Networks CEO Michael Persico
April 8th, 2019

The financial vertical has long been a crucial part of the infrastructure ecosystem. The rise of ultra-low latency trading provided early opportunities for differentiation in what had been commoditized bandwidth and services after the dot com bubble. First with fiber and then with microwave, one of the specialists that has driven innovation in this segment over the last decade is Anova Financial Networks. With us today to give his perspective on the financial networking business and Anova’s place within it is Anova’s founder and CEO, Michael Persico. [Read more →]
Int’l Bytes: Colt, SES, Fibernoire, Netnod
April 5th, 2019
Some interesting items from around the world to end the week on: [Read more →]
A proactive approach for prevention of order fallouts in digital service providers’ (DSPs’) order to activate lifecycle
April 5th, 2019

This Industry Viewpoint was authored by Karthik R, Suseel Vadakkepet, Muthukrishnan R, and Sarvagya Nayak of Prodapt
A customer’s journey with a DSP usually starts with his intent to use or purchase a service through any of the channels. This is captured as order and enters the CRM system, which passes it to various downstream systems for fulfillment and provisioning. These orders need to traverse [Read more →]