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The Green Telecom Revolution: Sustainable Practices in Telecommunications

October 31, 2023

Via: Caitlin Simmons

In the fast-paced, interconnected world we live in, telecommunications play an essential role in shaping our daily lives. From voice calls to video conferences, emails to instant messaging, the telecommunications industry has revolutionized the way we communicate, connecting people and […]


Networks & Systems

Digital Transformation Action Items for Data Centers

June 9, 2023

Via: Telecom Ramblings

Having become a popular buzzword, digital transformation is really the process of implementing emerging digital technologies to modify a company’s essential operations, processes, and services that provide new ways to deliver value, ease workloads, and withstand future challenges. According to […]


News

Friday Roundup: Prime DC, GCI, Ribbon, Bharti Airtel, Nokia, e&

December 23, 2022

Via: Telecom Ramblings

Happy Holidays to all, time to escape early if you haven’t already folks! Here’s some quick catchup first of a few items beforehand: Prime Data Centers has landed a significant pre-lease out in the Los Angeles market. An unnamed ‘publicly […]


News

Industry Spotlight: QTS’ Tag Greason on the Emergence of Operational Maturity as a Key Selection Criteria for Post Pandemic Data Centers

December 5, 2022

Via: Telecom Ramblings

One of the biggest byproducts of the global pandemic is its impact on accelerating the digital transformation process. In just a few years, data digitization, often referred to as digital transformation, has profoundly changed the shape of digital business in […]


News

Tuesday Roundup: StratCap, LightRiver, IDS, DataBank

July 12, 2022

Via: Telecom Ramblings

Three interesting items so far this week, a small M&A, a partnership, and an upgrade: There has been a bit of data center M&A down in northern Florida. StratCap Data Centers has completed the acquisition of a triple-net-leased facility in […]


Networks & Systems

Industry Spotlight: Zenlayer Readies the Global Cloud Edge

February 14, 2022

Via: Telecom Ramblings

We live in a time where everything seems to be simultaneously centralized and yet distributed, and nothing does that more than cloud infrastructure. But it’s far easier to scale the core than it is the edge, because in the end […]


News

Industry Spotlight: Prime Data Centers CEO Nicholas Laag

January 11, 2021

Via: Telecom Ramblings

The data center industry continues to evolve rapidly, and that creates opportunities for new providers to come in and shake things up. Prime Data Centers is one of those young companies looking to make their mark, starting on the West […]


News

Microsoft announces it will build data centers in Greece

October 5, 2020

Via: Fierce Telecom News

Microsoft has turned its eye towards Greece with an announcement on Monday that it will build a series of data centers there as part of a new data region. Microsoft President Brad Smith said in a press release that his […]


Networks & Systems

Ciena helps Windstream boot-up its new national optical network

August 10, 2020

Via: Fierce Telecom News

Windstream has picked Ciena for the build-out of its new nationwide optical network, which is slated for turn up in the third quarter of this year. Windstream’s new network, which is called the National Converged Optical Network (NCON), will hook-up […]


Local area networks and wide area networks, Modern Media

Edge Computing in the Network, or Network deployed at the Edge datacentre?

August 21, 2019

Via: Disruptive Wireless

Warning: totally speculative “what-if” post…. Almost everyone assumes that MEC-type edge-computing will be *inside* 5G or converged fixed-mobile infrastructure. The idea is that telcos will host servers deep in their networks, for low-latency 5G NR radio, coupled to micro-datacentres a […]


Networks & Systems

Micro Data Centers for IoT Processing

January 28, 2019

Via: Telecom Reseller

Information processing can reside anywhere in a network. Traditionally it has been in the data center and now the cloud. The Internet of Things (IoT) is forcing a reconsideration of centralized processing. When processing is performed at the network edge […]


News

Tuesday Bytes: SK Telecom, New Continuum, Zayo, Akamai

January 8, 2019

Via: Telecom Ramblings

SK Telecom is deepening a foray into the content space with Sinclair Broadcast Group. The two are teaming up on a joint venture to develop ATSC 3.0 broadcasting solutions. ATSC 3.0 enables data communications in broadcasting bands, enabling 2-way communications […]


Modern Media, Worldwide equipment

Equinix wraps sale of 8 data centers to Digital Realty

March 13, 2017

Via: Fierce Telecom News

Equinix has completed the sale of eight European data center assets to Digital Realty for $874 million, fulfilling a mandate by the European Commission to gain approval of its Telecity Group acquisition. The eight facilities Equinix sold to Digital Realty […]


Networks & Systems

Data center 25G, 100G adoption will drive Ethernet market to $26B by 2020

January 19, 2017

Via: Fierce Telecom News

The ongoing adoption of higher speeds in the data center and campus environments will help drive up Ethernet switch market revenues beyond $26 billion in 2020. Dell’Oro Group says that 2.5 Gbps and 5 Gbps will see demand in campus […]