Tag: featured

June 6, 2023

One new subsea cable project, one M&A, and one new partnership: NEC says it has signed a contract to supply the new EMCS cable system. ECMS, or the East Micronesia Cable System, will connect Pohnpei and Kosrai in Micronesia as […]

June 6, 2023

A team including researchers from the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology; Sumitomo Osaka Cement Co., Ltd.; Nagoya Institute of Technology; and Waseda University has jointly developed the world’s first system for the transparent relay, routing, and switching of […]

June 5, 2023

In today’s fast-paced digital era, effective communication lies at the heart of successful business operations and customer engagement. To enable developers to seamlessly integrate communication functionalities into their applications, the advent of Communication APIs and SDKs has proven to be […]

June 5, 2023

MOX Networks (“MOX”) is one of the few companies out there actively building new fiber infrastructure. Privately owned and a part of the Nantworks company portfolio, MOX has a unique position within the market with its plans for the buildout […]

June 5, 2023

Hughes Network Systems, an EchoStar (Nasdaq: SATS) company, and OneWeb, the low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite communications company, today announced a Distribution Partner agreement to provide LEO connectivity services to the global airline market. As a worldwide OneWeb distributor, Hughes […]

June 5, 2023

Vitech is proud to announce its partnership with the Central Pension Fund of the International Union of Operating Engineers and Participating Employers (CPF) to upgrade its pension administration system (PAS) utilizing Vitech’s V3locity cloud-based administration, engagement, and analytics platform. CPF […]

June 1, 2023

Macomb, Oakland and Wayne counties are asking residents and businesses to take a 15-question survey about internet service at their households. The survey asks whether high-speed (“broadband”) internet service is available at a given address, and at what speed. The […]

May 31, 2023

Back in September 2021, I wrote an article, Rural Broadband May Soon Get a Boost, about the bipartisan infrastructure bill which was being debated in Congress. The Infrastructure and Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) was passed in November of 2021. […]

May 31, 2023

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing many aspects of business operations, particularly in customer service. The use of bots to handle high-frequency, low-complexity tasks is well-established. Generative AI is impacting the role of customer service agents, challenging the belief that […]

May 31, 2023

Three expansion projects of US local and regional interest and one new subsea landing item from the southeast: Mobilitie, which will soon be called Boldyn Networks, will be deploying a 5G event network down in Tennessee. The DAS buildout will […]

May 30, 2023

Hybrid and remote work discussions have turned into a bit of a holy war in recent months with one side arguing for a return to the office, and the other arguing against. Recently, Microsoft executive Lucy Cooper went so far […]

May 30, 2023

The biggest vendor names in the network space are those who provide the optical platforms and routers. But in between those areas at the intersection of different vendors, technologies, and designs there has long been space for independent innovation. One […]

May 23, 2023

If you have to ask that question, then yes, AI is moving too fast. Nobody is asking whether AI is moving fast enough, and in 2023, it’s certainly not behind the times. If anything, the times are now trying to […]

May 23, 2023

Lots of interesting items going on around the world this week: DE-CIX is taking aim at the interconnection landscape in the Democratic Republic of Congo. They have teamed up with the service provider United S.A. and the NGO ‘Internet pour […]

May 22, 2023

Four interesting international items from four separate continents: Telstra Wholesale has launched 400G on intercapital routes in Australia. They are leveraging Ciena’s 6500 Packet-Optical platform to upgrade their wavelength services. The deployment covers routes between Adelaide, Melbourne, Canberra, Sydney and […]

May 22, 2023

Harmonic Inc. today announced that it has appointed Walter Jankovic as chief financial officer, effective immediately. Mr. Jankovic brings over 30 years of executive experience from a range of leading technology companies. He was most recently senior vice president and […]

May 22, 2023

Healthy habits can set you on track for a lifetime of wellness. That’s why GNC is introducing new services that enable consumers to prioritize health and wellness including GNC Routines, its subscription services, GNCX Innovations, its in-house innovation incubator creating […]

May 16, 2023

Work from home (WFH) spurred a revolution in collaboration, for sure. All revolutions come to an end, though, and for the collaborative vendors in general (and Microsoft and Zoom in particular) it’s time to face the collision between returning from […]

May 16, 2023

There is a bit of consolidation going on in the cloud ecosystem that serves the infrastructure & connectivity world. Connectbase has announced a deal to purchase LastMileXchange, a London-based provider of access pricing solutions. This is the first M&A move […]

May 15, 2023

The promise of a brighter, better tomorrow: that’s the driving factor behind technological advancements. And the promise of the OpenAI generative artificial intelligence, GPT, has a tidal wave of possibility attached to it. But with every breakthrough comes new risks […]