Tag: news

November 30, 2020

Ahead of next year’s expected deployments of 5G, Dish Network announced fiber agreements on Monday with Everstream, Segra, Uniti and Zayo. Those four fiber partnerships will provide fronthaul and backhaul support for Dish’s 5G network to sites covering approximately 60 […]

November 23, 2020

After first announcing they were working together in September, Lumen and Zoom have expanded their partnership. Similar to deployments by BT and Deutsche Telekom, Lumen is now offering a dedicated Zoom service to its customers. “Zoom delivered by Lumen” blends […]

November 23, 2020

Vodafone announced it has committed to reducing the company’s total global carbon emissions to “net zero” by 2040, which cut 10 years off of its original deadline. As part of the Paris Agreement, Vodafone also confirmed that its 2030 carbon […]

November 20, 2020

This week we bring you news on Zoom security and meetings updates, enhancements to Avaya’s team collaboration platform, a new video service from Ooma, a cloud acquisition by Cisco, and a SD-WAN solution from EKINOPS for remote workers. Zoom Releases […]

November 13, 2020

Some metro and regional news, one from New England, the other from the Southeast. FirstLight has picked up a high profile customer in the education vertical. Dartmouth has picked FirstLight’s dark fiber to hook up six buildings on its campus […]

November 9, 2020

Here’s a quick rundown on some news from late last week plus a new data center launch from this morning: FirstLight is supplying fiber connectivity to Hub66 up in northern New England. The two companies are teaming up to bring […]

November 6, 2020

In this week’s election, California citizens approved Proposition 24, known as the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA), or California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) 2.0. The CPRA amends some provisions of the CCPA, which became enforceable in July 2020. Both the […]

November 6, 2020

In this week’s No Jitter Roll we share updates around video end-to-end encryption (E2EE), desktop devices, AV and UC control panels, CPaaS platforms, and SD-WAN integrations. Zoom E2EE Arrives for Meetings Zoom last week announced availability of E2EE for meetings […]

November 5, 2020

The US may still be holding its breath, but the rest of the world is at least still going through the motions. Here are two vendor wins, one NNI, and a traffic milestone: Ciena has picked up some subsea business […]

November 4, 2020

The votes are still being counted, yada yada yada. Meanwhile, here are three data center deals and a IaaS expansion worth not missing in the meantime: Macquarie’s appetite for telecom and internet infrastructure found another target today. Alaska Communications has […]

November 3, 2020

It’s election day in the US, and in terms of news few here are likely to try to compete with that. Luckily there is the rest of the world to look at, so here’s a quick look at some news […]

October 29, 2020

ATEME, the emerging leader in video delivery infrastructure for broadcast, cable, DTH, IPTV and OTT announces today it is joining the Media Technology Partner (MTP) program of Akamai, the intelligent edge platform for securing and delivering digital experiences. ATEME has […]

October 23, 2020

In this week’s No Jitter Roll, we share updates surrounding enterprise 5G edge services, Microsoft Teams integrations, a work-from-home VPN service, video collaboration room system monitoring, and a Zoom certification. Verizon, Cradlepoint Advance Private 5G Enterprise To offset latency issues, […]

October 22, 2020

Telefónica has launched Telefónica Tech Ventures as a new vehicle for its cybersecurity-related investments. Telefónica Tech Ventures is out of the starter blocks with a portfolio of nine invested startups with investment plans for up to 15 more over the […]

October 22, 2020

Some low latency news and some remote connectivity solutions for workers and for students: Avelacom has added another US/Asia low latency link to its network. Yesterday the financial services networking specialist launched a new Chicago-Tokyo back-up route. It’s geographically diverse […]

October 12, 2020

A new study concludes that the global 5G smartphone market size is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 122.7% from 2020 to 2027. While the market of next-gen smartphones reached 12.42 million units in 2019, the […]

October 9, 2020

Also new in the news this week: more interconnection, another edge data center, some backhaul, and a new hire: Sparkle has lined up another interconnection partnership in its home turf of Italy. They have teamed up with TOP-IX, the Torino […]

October 8, 2020

Two contract wins, a new CEO, and a new data center, not necessarily in that order: Ciena has won some business over in the Philippines this week. Yesterday they announced that Converge ICT is deploying their tunable 400G WaveLogic Ai […]

October 7, 2020

A couple infrastructure expansion projects and a couple of partnerships at midweek: STACK INFRASTRUCTURE has broken ground on its latest project up in the Pacific Northwest. The data center provider has begun the construction of its new POR03 campus in […]

October 1, 2020

DC BLOX has added some metro fiber capabilities in Huntsville, Alabama. The southeastern data center provider has teamed up with Huntsville Utilities for dark fiber reach to the city’s businesses and government entities. Huntsville Utilities supplies electricity, water, and natural […]