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The company has begun a search for a replacement while putting in place a leadership group to run the company in the interim. [Read more →] Leave a Comment Industry Spotlight: Q Advisors’ Dmitry Netis Talks Cloud Native May 26th, 2020 -- The worlds of cloud computing and of telecom and internet infrastructure are increasingly becoming integrated with each other. Hence, trends like that of cloud native computing are quickly impinging on not just on applications that get delivered over internet infrastructure, but also on how that infrastructure is operated and maintained. With us today to delve into those ideas is Dmitry Netis, Q Advisors’ Managing Director, Business Development. Q Advisors specializes in M&A in the TMT space, but especially when it comes to the smaller, innovative technology players that are looking to shake things up. [Read more →] Leave a Comment Segra Expands in North Carolina With NorthState Buy May 22nd, 2020 -- Apparently I missed this one when it first came through, but better late than never! This week Segra completed an M&A down in North Carolina, acquiring longtime regional service provider NorthState . [Read more →] Leave a Comment Leveraging data-driven inventory wizard to arrest 90% of errors at the source May 22nd, 2020 -- This Industry Viewpoint was authored by Arco Versluis and Sathya Narayanan of Prodapt Digital Service Provider’s (DSP’s) inventory data consisting of their assets and services is very critical to their operations. These assets grow every day making it more difficult to manage. Almost all the DSPs manually register their inventories once [Read more →] Leave a Comment Thusday Roundup: GPX, Alianza, Horizon, Bluebird, Digicel May 21st, 2020 -- Two from abroad, and two from the Midwest to keep up with: [Read more →] Leave a Comment Wednesday Bytes: CenturyLink, Colt, DE-CIX, Netnod, ADVA May 20th, 2020 -- Some metro fiber, a new CEO, an interconnection of IXs, and some cloud security: [Read more →] Leave a Comment Tuesday Bytes: Megaport, EdgeConneX, ExteNet, RTO, IX Reach, KevlinX, ServerFarm, Salute Mission Critical May 19th, 2020 -- That's a long title, which is the result of four interesting partnership announcements and expansions, and hence eight companies working on things we should keep up with: [Read more →] Leave a Comment Industry Spotlight: Enxoo’s Artur Ostrowski May 18th, 2020 -- One corner of the industry that I don't spend much time on but which is critical to the operations of everyone in the sector is OSS/BSS software and systems. But as automation continues to reach deeper into everyone's systems, it's a subject that needs a bigger voice. With us today to delve a little deeper is Artur Ostrowski, CCO of Enxoo. Enxoo uses a Salesforce-based platform to target telco-specific needs for OSS/BSS. [Read more →] Leave a Comment 2Africa to Encircle the Continent With a New Submarine Cable May 15th, 2020 -- In the past, when one built a submarine cable to serve African destinations, the first question others would ask about your project was 'east or west?' It was nearly always one or the other of course, but not this time. Yesterday, a high powered group of global tech and telecom operators announced plans to build 2Africa , which will do both, starting and ending in Europe. [Read more →] 2 Comments Microsoft Takes Out Metaswitch May 15th, 2020 -- The idea of one of the tech giants taking on telecommunications in a big way has always been an interesting 'what if' scenario, and occasionally some small piece of it happens. Yesterday was one of those days, as Microsoft announced a definitive agreement to buy Metaswitch Networks . [Read more →] 2 Comments Thursday Roundup: ExteNet, GTT, Silver Peak, Colt, Arista, WiTCOM, ADVA, 6WIND May 14th, 2020 -- A few deployments and upgrades to keep an eye on: [Read more →] Leave a Comment Wednesday Bytes: STI, Crosslink Fiber, Element Critical, EdgeMicro, IEIC May 13th, 2020 -- Here's a set of mid-week quick takes: [Read more →] Leave a Comment South Reach Acquires Resurgence’s Florida Fiber & Colo May 13th, 2020 -- Some intercity fiber has changed hands down in the southeastern US. South Reach Networks has made an inorganic move, buying the fiber and colo assets of Resurgence Infrastructure Group . [Read more →] Leave a Comment Tuesday Bytes: Uniti, NJFX, Cogent, Ciena, Telia, INAP May 12th, 2020 -- Here are a few interesting bits of news from the start of the week worth noting quickly: [Read more →] Leave a Comment Jobs Roundup: Colo Atl, DC BLOX, Southern Telecom, Epsilon, Chayora, Summit Broadband May 11th, 2020 -- We may all have been sheltering in place, but last week there were a whole lot of folks from this sector taking on new jobs, particularly in the southeastern US. Here's a quick rundown of what some familiar faces have been up to: [Read more →] Leave a Comment Key Drivers for Growth of the Edge May 11th, 2020 -- This Industry Viewpoint was authored by Keith Rutledge, General Manager of Compass EdgePoint This is the second in a two-part series about trends that are accelerating the adoption of edge infrastructure and broadening the use cases of edge computing. In Part 1, I focused on how the COVID-19 pandemic is driving the need for edge computing in a way that I believe will continue after the pandemic subsides This column builds on that discussion by discussing [Read more →] Leave a Comment Helping Your Assets Work for You: Uncovering Hidden Capital Opportunities in Underutilized Data Centers May 8th, 2020 -- This Industry Viewpoint was authored by Christof Hammerli, EVP at Landmark Dividend Today’s landscape of global disruption has been affecting communities and businesses alike. In the aftermath of stay-at-home and quarantine policies, supply chain interruptions, event shutdowns, customer shortages and economic slowdowns, revenue is [Read more →] 1 Comment Everstream Taps Uniti for Milwaukee Dark Fiber May 7th, 2020 -- With big buildout plans already underway throughout the Midwest, Everstream today turned to a fellow infrastructure company for a quick boost in its reach. They have annou...