Category: News

May 16, 2023

Telephone and Data Systems, Inc. (NYSE: TDS) and United States Cellular Corporation (NYSE: USM) will present at the 51st Annual J.P. Morgan Global Technology, Media & Communications Conference on May 23, 2023 at 3:15 pm Eastern Daylight Time (EDT). LeRoy […]

May 15, 2023

Some quick catchup on metro and regional network news from around the US and in this case Mexico too: Segra is taking a dip into the world of motor sports via a partnership with Toyota Racing Development. With its network […]

May 12, 2023

On April 28, NASA and its partners achieved another major milestone in the future of space communications—achieving 200 gigabit per second (Gbps) throughput on a space-to-ground optical link between a satellite in orbit and Earth, the highest data rate ever […]

May 11, 2023

Two interesting expansion projects, a significant upgrade project, and some bit R&E bandwidth: Arelion has put together a new fiber route connecting cable landing stations along the southeastern US coast. The route connects the company’s northern Virginia depth and its […]

May 10, 2023

Three interconnection expansions, one new data center, and one restructuring financial move: Flexential is expanding its interconnection capabilities for tenants within its 39 data center footprint. They have launched a 40Gbps IP bandwidth offering as part of their National FlexAnywhere […]

May 10, 2023

NextNav Inc. (“NextNav” or the “Company”), a leader in next generation GPS and 3D geolocation, today reported financial results for NextNav’s first quarter ended March 31, 2022. Ganesh Pattabiraman, NextNav Co-founder and CEO, stated, “NextNav had a strong start to […]

May 9, 2023

Two data center expansion projects, a big bandwidth trial, and some SASE. Infinera has completed a significant intercity trial of its ICE6 solution with Telstra Infraco. The trial succeeded in putting 61.3Tbps of unregenerated capacity on a single Corning SMF-28 […]

May 9, 2023

Tuya Inc. (“Tuya” or the “Company”) (NYSE: TUYA; HKEX: 2391), a global leading IoT cloud development platform, today announced that it will hold an annual general meeting of the Company’s shareholders (the “AGM”) at 2:00 p.m. (Hong Kong time) on […]

May 5, 2023

Digital is the new normal for a variety of industries, and the Gaming & Hospitality industry is no exception. COVID-19 was the volatile breaking point that forced change in the industry on an IT, business, and customer level, but many […]

May 5, 2023

As more organizations leverage digital adoption platforms and facilitate changes in work culture, Info-Tech Research Group advises them integrate change and project management methodologies. However, aligning IT change management with project management can pose significant challenges, requiring IT leaders to […]

May 4, 2023

A few new IXs, some partnership expansions, and a new market: DE-CIX has moved into a yet another international market. They have officially launched new IXs in the Norwegian cities of Oslo and Kristiansand. The expansion leverages the data center […]

May 3, 2023

Some new metro fiber, some financing, an integration update, and a buildout update: Harbor Peak has broken ground on another bit of key infrastructure in northern Virginia. The new project will add seven miles of multi-duct fiber cable infrastructure through […]

May 2, 2023

Of interest this morning: a recapitalization, a re-emergence, and a couple data center expansion projects: euNetworks has added a few new backers in a recapitalization led by its majority investors at Stonepeak. Under the terms of the deal, APG Asset […]

May 2, 2023

ONUG, the voice of the Global 2000, today announced the final program and speaker line up for its ONUG Spring 2023 event being held live at Union Station in Dallas, Texas, as well as virtually, on May 17-18, 2023. ONUG […]

April 28, 2023

In last week’s piece, I recounted some takeaways from the Enterprise Summit general session at Enterprise Connect 2023, where our panel of enterprise decision-makers discussed the challenge of keeping up with a constantly changing hybrid work environment. We followed that […]

April 27, 2023

Lots of international items this week, here’s another set to keep up with: Macquarie Data Centres and Console Connect are teaming up to bring some more Network-as-a-Service to Sydney. Console Connect’s platform is now available at the former’s Macquarie Park […]

April 26, 2023

On the regional infrastructure front, two network buildouts, an edge data center, and an equipment upgrade. Empire Access is taking on more of northeastern Pennsylvania. The northeastern FTTH provider says it will be expanding into the Pennsylvania towns of Bloomsburg, […]

April 25, 2023

A significant public sector deal, a cybersecurity partnership, a new data center, and a new edge IX: BT has won a major public sector contract in Scotland. They have been awarded the Scottish WAN contract by NHS National Services Scotland. […]

April 24, 2023

Graybar, a leading distributor of electrical, communications and data networking products and provider of related supply chain management and logistics services, today reported record first quarter results. For the first three months of 2023, Graybar’s net sales totaled $2.7 billion, […]

April 21, 2023

I started my career in the Apple contact center before working my way up to being a technology executive, and I understand the grind that customer care agents endure, and it’s an occupational category employing 2% of the American workforce. […]