Tag: CenturyLink

January 17, 2020

CenturyLink has landed a $1.6 billion contract with the U.S. Department of Interior (DoI) through the General Services Administration’s Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions (EIS) program. Under the terms of the task order, CenturyLink will modernize the DoI’s wide-ranging network services for […]

January 9, 2020

While Realtors tout “location, location, location,” CenturyLink’s mantra is “fiber, fiber, fiber.” During Wednesday’s Citi 2020 Global TMT West Conference in Las Vegas, CenturyLink CEO Jeff Storey once again pointed out that his company’s competitive advantage is its fiber. Storey […]

January 7, 2020

Time to catch up on a bit of news from the start of the week: two new products, a financial investment, and a CEO transition: DataBank’s ownership structure has shifted around a bit this week. Colony Capital has invested another […]

December 18, 2019

CenturyLink landed an SD-WAN customer win that spans more than 50 locations across Latin America, North America, Europe and Asia. Those locations belong to Braskem, which is the largest thermoplastics resins producer in the Americas and a worldwide producer of […]

December 10, 2019

Ericsson has reached an expensive resolution to its corruption problems with the US DOJ. They have agreed to pay a penalty of $1.06B, for which the DOJ will defer prosecution and have them dismissed later. The charges stem from Ericsson’s […]

December 4, 2019

FiberLight has rolled out some fiber down in Georgia. They have completed a dark fiber deployment project for the city of Roswell, just north of Atlanta. The fiber and 400Gbps of connectivity now connects city resources to the Ascent data […]

December 3, 2019

GTT has polished off its acquisition of KPN International, which operated the Dutch-based provider’s global IP backbone. The €50M deal expands GTT’s customer base and lets KPN refocus further on its core geography and business. Last week GTT hired advisors […]

November 12, 2019

CenturyLink has completed a fiber expansion up in the Pacific Northwest, or more specifically within the Silicon Forest area of Hillsboro, Oregon. They have brought new fiber over to the 108MW QTS data center there, along the way hooking up […]

October 16, 2019

ExteNet is taking its wireless infrastructure business into new territory. They are deploying a CBRS network on the 3.5Ghz band for Mile High Networks, one of the first commercial networks using this shared spectrum band. Mile High serves Arizona’s Yavapai […]

September 10, 2019

Akamai is making a deal that will take it deeper into Latin America. They have announced an agreement to buy Exceda, the company’s biggest channel partner in Latin America. The company resells Akamai’s portfolio in seven countries, with offices in […]

September 10, 2019

CenturyLink has bought privately held OTT video distributor Streamroot for an undisclosed sum. CenturyLink said the Paris-based startup would help it improve video and static content delivery within bandwidth-constrained areas, and strengthen its content delivery network (CDN) and edge computing […]

September 6, 2019

Sparkle, the international arm of TIM group, has invested in some new reach down in South America. It has opened a new PoP on the company’s IP backbone in Huechuraba, Chile. It’s Sparkle’s second PoP in the Santiago metro area, […]

August 27, 2019

A few that slipped through my nets last week plus a new M&A worth noting: CenturyLink recently made multiple moves to upgrade its cloud with the help of VMware and other partners. They added 5 major enhancements to CenturyLink Private […]

August 22, 2019

Ahead of next week’s VMworld conference, CenturyLink made several announcements on Thursday, including upgrades to its private cloud platform. CenturyLink also announced it will launch a fully-managed VMware Cloud on Amazon Web Services. CenturyLink said the five enhancements to CenturyLink […]

August 13, 2019

There widespread consensus that edge computing will be a key piece of opening up latency-sensitive 5G applications like autonomous vehicles and augmented and virtual reality. Where there’s not widespread consensus is around who will build out distributed computing infrastructure–will the […]

August 9, 2019

EdgeConneX has opened for business down in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The company’s first edge data center in South America had its ribbon cutting ceremony this week, just under seven months since it was announced back in January. The facility can […]

July 29, 2019

AT&T announced on Monday that it has reeled in a 15-year, $984 million contract with the U.S. Department of Justice. The deal serves as the long-term foundation for the Department of Justice’s network and technology upgrades. The fully managed portfolio […]

July 17, 2019

Windstream Enterprise has added some new integration capabilities to its UCaaS offerings. The company’s OfficeSuite UC and HD meeting applications now integrate with Slack’s team collaboration tools. Windstream has been pushing deeper into the enterprise managed services space on the […]

June 12, 2019

CenturyLink checked off Latin America from its software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN) deployment list, and is now drawing a bead on a few more countries later this year. CenturyLink is deploying Cisco’s Viptela SD-WAN solutions in Latin America across various […]

May 23, 2019

While NFV has been a jungle of complexities for some service providers, CenturyLink continues to bushwhack its way to new horizons. CenturyLink is now on its fourth iteration of NFV, and while there have been some pain points along the […]