Cologix gets in the hyperscale game with COLO-D deal
After six months of due diligence, Cologix pulled the trigger this week by buying Montreal-based COLO-D.
Friday, December 21, 2018
28 GHz spectrum auction limps toward holidays
Bidding action continues to dwindle in the FCC’s auction of 28 GHz licenses as the holiday break looms.
Sprint to pay $330M in settlement with N.Y. attorney general
New York Attorney General Barbara Underwood announced Sprint will pay a record-breaking $330 million settlement.
Tech M&A in 2018: The year of the bad deal?
With a tech market crash punctuating the year, 2018 will probably be remembered as a year of bad tech deals.
AT&T to begin upgrading existing LTE phones to ‘5G E’
AT&T will soon begin changing the “LTE” indicator on some of its current Android phones to “5G E” in roughly 400 markets.
IBM Will Use Samsung’s 7nm Tech for Data Center and Cloud Servers
The news comes as other manufactures including TSMC race to bring their next-gen silicon to market — and challenge Intel’s long-standing chip dominance in the data center.
SDxCentral's Weekly Roundup — December 21, 2018
Google Cloud acquires DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA); Telecom Italia (TIM), Qualcomm, and Ericsson successfully complete a live video call using 5G mmWave spectrum; AT&T offers new security service.
Top telco execs make their 2019 predictions
With 2018 rapidly heading toward the rearview mirror, it's time to take a look at what might be coming down the road in 2019.
A bunch of telecoms predictions for 2019
It’s that time of year again and before we set about the food, booze and pressies with shameless abandon we decided to collate some predictions from the cognoscenti of our industry.
Thursday, December 20, 2018
Composable Infrastructure Players to Watch in 2019
The technology is still in its infancy with only a handful of vendors shipping products. We expect to see more action in 2019.
Liberty Global's European Shrinkage
The cable giant is selling more European assets – how far might it go? And what might it do with its prime asset, the UK's Virgin Media?
VIVA & Huawei Strike Digital Oil in Kuwait
Without a solid digital transformation strategy, mobile network operators will face challenges to adapt to ever increasing customer expectations and expedite time to market for the new services.
Masergy's Ray Watson: Customers Want Security but Pay for Performance
Ray Watson, VP of Global Technology at Masergy, discusses the challenge of securing virtualized telco infrastructure and weighs in on how to handle corporate hacks as well.
AT&T's Nighthawk 5G: Potential Download Could Cover a Wide Range of Speeds
Expect a wide range of download speeds from AT&Ts Nighthawk 5G unit as you use the hotspot in AT&T's initial 5G cities.
Huawei Preps 'Security Transparency Center,' Gets Vote of Confidence From 5G Customer
Huawei is continuing its push-back against its international critics with details of security testing facilities, while one of its customers in Korea talks of its confidence in the embattled vendor.
Eurobites: Liberty Global Offloads East European DTH Ops
In today's EMEA regional roundup: Liberty Global sells eastern European satellite TV operations; 5G in Estonia; Vodafone needs a new auditor; taxing times in Finland for freelance Santas.
WiCipedia: Israeli Tech Flounders, CIOs Make Change & How to 'Bust Down Those Doors'
This week in our WiC roundup: Israel struggles to find techies; CIOs have diversity sway; the visibility lynchpin; and more.
Telia extends 5G reach to Estonia
Just a few weeks after lighting up a 5G network in Sweden, Telia has taken the connectivity euphoria across the Baltic Sea to Estonia.
Our supply chain won’t tread the ZTE path – Huawei CEO
One of the biggest stories of the year, and one of the major catalysts of the US/China trade war, was ZTE’s brush with extinction, but Huawei thinks it’s robust enough to withstand the US economic dirty-bomb.
US Indicts Chinese Hackers in MSP Network Scheme
While the government didn’t name the network providers, Reuters reports that HPE and IBM were among the compromised networks.
An Ode to Christmas: The Twelve months of Telco
It’s not very good, but here’s another attempts at a Telecoms.com poem. This time around we’ve destroyed the much loved ‘Twelve Days of Christmas’ and wrestled in some of the stories from the last twelve months.
Colt is lining up several key projects in early 2019
Colt Technology Services will kick off 2019 with several key initiatives it has been building toward over the past few years.
Comcast refuses to go public with assessment of Sprint/T-Mobile merger
Sprint and T-Mobile are urging Comcast to say publicly how it believes it will be affected by the proposed merger between the companies.
Automation is the top funding priority for IT—survey
IT departments from around the world have rated operations automation as their top funding priority for next year.
The Kubernetes Top 5 Hits of 2018
The Kubernetes project made a lot of progress in 2018 in terms of maturity, stability, and scalability, which helped drive M&A activity and a greater focus on security.
AT&T’s new tower deals cut rent costs in half
According to AT&T's vice president of tower strategy, the company's efforts to reduce costs are paying off.
Intel, Dell Study Finds Data Center Expansion Eats Up the Bulk of IT Teams’ Work
It concludes that IT teams are looking to new technologies like artificial intelligence to meet their data center demands.
Oracle’s Purchase of Talari Makes It the First Major Public Cloud Provider to Offer SD-WAN
Oracle had previously tried to create its own SD-WAN technology, but it couldn’t get it to market fast enough for its customers.
Huawei CEO hits back at security claims
Huawei, and China on the whole for that matter, has become the telco industry’s punching bag over the last couple of months, but Rotating CEO Ken Hu has hit back at the allegations.
CityFibre bags £1.1bn for nationwide fibre rollout
During yesteryear, CityFibre was known for moaning for the sake of moaning, but in securing a debt package of £1.12 billion, the firm’s ambitions are starting to look very real and very interesting.