Telecom Ramblings

Diversifying Europe’s long-haul digital infrastructure

Fri, 29 Sep 2023 09:02:00 +0200

This Industry Viewpoint was authored by Steve Roberts, Vice President Strategic Investments, EXA Infrastructure

In the race to improve Europe’s digital infrastructure, much of the focus has been on local access networks and funding for broader investments. But as more workloads move to the cloud and hyperscale traffic continues to grow, more attention has been shifting to international connectivity, and in particular to create greater diversity in parts of Europe where there is overreliance on certain long-established routes. … [visit site to read more]

Euro bytes: Start Campus, Colt, Orange Business, Nokia, Lyntia, Clio, Adtran

Thu, 28 Sep 2023 13:30:15 +0200

Four interesting items from the European theatre: … [visit site to read more]

Wednesday Roundup: Aligned, Zayo, Spectrum, Infinera

Wed, 27 Sep 2023 13:37:48 +0200

A new campus, some 400G, a purchasing vehicle win, and a subsea rollout: … [visit site to read more]

Google’s Newest Cable: Nuvem

Tue, 26 Sep 2023 13:31:56 +0200

Yesterday Google unveiled yet another subsea cable project. The new cable will be named Nuvem, which is apparently Portuguese for ‘cloud’, and will connect Portugal with South Carolina. Along the way it will stop in Bermuda, which has not gotten a whole lot of subsea fiber love over the years. … [visit site to read more]

Industry Spotlight: maincubes CEO Oliver Menzel

Mon, 25 Sep 2023 09:23:00 +0200

The European data center market has had an interesting few years, buffeted by geopolitical changes in the energy markets and driven by ever-expanding demand from new technologies. With us today to talk about it all isn the CEO of maincubes, Oliver Menzel. From his perch in Frankfurt, Germany, home to one of the largest data center concentrations in the world, he has a unique viewpoint on the market, the drivers of demand, and the future direction of European data centers. … [visit site to read more]

How Network Providers Can Capitalize on the Vast Promise of Direct-to-Consumer

Fri, 22 Sep 2023 09:10:00 +0200

This Industry Spotlight was authored by SAP’s Sandeep Chowdhury

As behemoths like Google, Meta and Netflix continue to devour bandwidth across the network value chain, the common refrain among network providers who are investing so much to build the infrastructure on which platforms like these rely has been, “What about us?” … [visit site to read more]

Thursday Bytes: Arvig, Gateway, Empire, Ada Infrastructure

Thu, 21 Sep 2023 14:07:22 +0200

Three items of regional fiber news and a new player in the global data center infrastructure space: … [visit site to read more]

Regional Bytes: TCT, Adtran, Tombigbee, Calix, Accelecom, Alianza, FirstLight

Wed, 20 Sep 2023 13:46:39 +0200

Three regional moves with the help of key vendors, and a couple of interesting executive hires: … [visit site to read more]

Int’l Roundup: STACK, Subcom, GI Partners, Hurricane Electric, HGC

Tue, 19 Sep 2023 13:54:54 +0200

Here’s a quick look at some international items from the last day or three: … [visit site to read more]

Industry Spotlight: Metro Edge’s Craig Huffman on Chicago’s IMD1 Project

Mon, 18 Sep 2023 09:56:00 +0200

Undertaking a large development in any major city is daunting, especially when the development is as complex as a data center. However, complicated doesn’t mean impossible, and a new entrant with local real estate expertise thinks they have found a unique way to crack it. Metro Edge Development Partners (Metro Edge) is preparing to kick off the buildout of IMD1, an exclusive five-story data center to be located within the Illinois Medical District, just two miles west of the central business district of Chicago. With us today to talk about the project’s past, present and future is Metro Edge Co-Founder and CEO Craig Huffman. … [visit site to read more]

Harnessing AI’s Potential to Detect Visual Bugs Faster

Fri, 15 Sep 2023 09:56:00 +0200

This Industry Viewpoint was authored by Prashant Maloo, Senior Director at Prodapt

Service providers in the Connectedness industry focus on gaining a competitive edge over the competition by maintaining a premium quality of service. However, quality assurance has been a tough challenge, given the need to master the various stages of the product life cycle, such as requirements gathering, product development, product testing, support & maintenance, etc. … [visit site to read more]

Vendor Bytes: Sabey, JetCool, Nokia, Ciena, Ribbon, Infinera

Thu, 14 Sep 2023 13:52:10 +0200

Here’s a set of vendor news items from this week worth keeping up with: … [visit site to read more]

Wednesday Roundup: Arcadian Infracom, Comcast Business, Lumen, Liquid

Wed, 13 Sep 2023 13:56:40 +0200

Several interesting expansions and some SASE enhancements: … [visit site to read more]

Int’l Roundup: EdgeConneX, Xtera, GlobalNet, Vantage

Tue, 12 Sep 2023 14:06:14 +0200

Several interesting items from around the world, two in the data center space, one subsea, and one backbone: … [visit site to read more]

Industry Spotlight: Colohouse CEO Jeremy Pease on Growth, M&A, Vision, and AI

Mon, 11 Sep 2023 09:04:00 +0200

The data center space is constantly shifting, with new players backed by savvy investors creating novel strategies to provide the next generation of infrastructure to the rest of the economy. One company that has been rising quickly over the past two years is Colohouse, which has blended organic and … [visit site to read more]

DEVICE WARS AND HOW ADVERTISERS WILL SPEND THEIR TV MONEY IN COMING YEARS

Fri, 08 Sep 2023 09:51:00 +0200

This Industry Viewpoint was authored by Ross Flynn, Mobile Ecosystem Forum

The mobile phone has resulted in a variety of changes – some welcomed, some less so, and some have been unexpected. For example, mobile phones are contributing to a shift in how TV advertising is bought. … [visit site to read more]

Thursday Bytes: Digital Realty, LINX, Nokia, Padtec, UPIX, EXA

Thu, 07 Sep 2023 13:52:11 +0200

New data centers, an IX upgrade, and some wavelength upgrades and expansions: … [visit site to read more]

Int’l Bytes: Bulk, Virtus, EXA, Orange Business

Wed, 06 Sep 2023 13:31:39 +0200

Two expansion projects, some new interconnection, and a smart city partnership: … [visit site to read more]

nLighten Buys Proximity, Storms Into UK

Tue, 05 Sep 2023 13:28:48 +0200

The European data center provider nLighten has made its second inorganic move of this summer season with the announcement of the purchase of Proximity Data Centres. The deal enables nLighten to go from zero to sixty in the UK data center market, just as it did in France a few months ago. … [visit site to read more]

Unpacking the Triple Threat of Carpet Bomb Attacks: Evasion, Neutralization, and Overload

Fri, 01 Sep 2023 09:37:00 +0200

This Industry Viewpoint was authored by Ashley Stephenson, CTO of Corero Network Security

Nature often provides insightful parallels to our complex digital world. For instance, one might think of a business network connected to the internet as a dynamic beehive where each bee symbolizes a unique IP address of the customer, all tirelessly working to ensure the entire colony remains connected. Much like bees in a hive, these IP addresses constantly relay information in order to communicate vital signals or potential threats. You could think of a … [visit site to read more]