Recent Articles

• Mobile Monetization: Mavenir and Syniverse Team up on an End-to-End Platform for RCS Business Messaging — interview with Guillaume Le Mener & Syniverse Technologies — The RCS Business Messaging (RBM) is a powerful new way for brands to interact with customers.  Two leading companies have teamed to provide a soup-to-nuts RBM solution complete with user trust and brand verification, brand security, a new messaging platform, and a flexible business model for MNOs.
• Conduits & Flexibility Keys to Cost Efficiency at DataGryd’s 60 Hudson Street Hub — interview with Tom Brown — The CEO of the largest data center in New York discusses the impact of: IoT and 5G/small cell, lowering cross-connect costs, SDN ramp-up, and the greater data center versatility required by cloud and comms providers.
• PCCW Global: First Tier 1 Carrier to Deliver SDN Connectivity as a Worldwide Enterprise Service — interview with Neil Templeton — PCCW Global tossed its hat into the SDN ring when it acquired Console Connect.  Here’s a rundown on the company’s SdN roll out plans, core features of the solution, and its versatility in serving enterprise clients.
• Netrolix Harnesses the Net’s Wild Mustang: Optimized Internet & Private/Secure Service at Low Cost — interview with Wes Jensen — Learn about a unique internet optimization service that enables  private/secure enterprise connectivity across the public internet via real-time, AI-based analysis of ISP traffic patterns.
• A Pastoral Symphony: ServerFarm Helps Enterprises Cultivate their Global Data Center Gardens — by Arun Shenoy — An expert in enterprise data center outsourcing uses software-defined processes to enable consistent views of global infrastructure.  The platform also enables advising enterprises on all facets of physical asset planning, upgrades, and operation.
• Low Earth Orbit Satellites set to Rocket into Telecom’s Mainstream for 5G & IoT — by Samer Bishay — A new generation of low-cost, low-earth-orbit communication satellites will deliver a vast arry of remote sensing, IoT, 5G, and security applications.  Iristel, a pioneer in this emerging field, provides details.
• Momentum Builds for SDN-Enabled Networking in Global Wholesaling — interview with Carl Roberts & Jerzy Szlosarek — Wholesale SDN champion Epsilon discusses its partnership with Middle East incumbent DU, its software-centered and asset-lite strategy, the attraction of born-in-the-cloud “unicorns”, and the benefits from meshed network fabrics.
• Enterprise On-Demand SDNs: Consuming Networks as Easily as Swiping Right — by Jezzibell Gilmore — Enterprise On-Demand is a fast growing SDN category that includes cloud connect and datacenter-to-datacenter interconnect.  Leading player PacketFabric explains what’s happening in this exciting space.
• How HGC is Taking its Digital & International Carrier Expertise to Asia’s Emerging Markets — interview with Ravindran Mahalingam & Jacqueline Teo — HGC, an international carrier and expert in telecom and digital delivery explains its new business thrust to take its expertise into the emerging nations of IndoChina and Southeast Asia.
• Seaborn Innovates Around its Independent Subsea Operator Model; New Cable to Argentina Now in the Works — interview with Larry Schwartz — Independent subsea operator Seaborn provides an update on: its Seabras-1 New York to Brazil success; a new cable build from Brazil to Argentina; and its operating and commercial innovations.
• How a “Beautiful Mind” of Location & Connectivity Intelligence Enables Network Buying Decisions — interview with Mike Nguyen — A new global marketplace tool delivers a free and neutral view of enterprise and network provider connections inside thousands of data centers around the world.
• At the ROOT of Wholesale Data Center Value: Fast Deployments, Energy Efficiency, and the Waterfalls of Quebec — interview with AJ Byers — A wholesale datacenter provider in Montreal explains the secrets of its success in attracting hyperscalers and other customers as it serves Canada and the northeastern US.
• DataGryd at 60 Hudson Street: Engineering a New Business Model for Wholesale Data Centers in Large Cities — interview with Tom Brown — The famous 60 Hudson Street data center has been developed with cooling and huge power enhancements to create a modern wholesale datacenter.  Read how DataGryd, the largest footprint datacenter in Manhattan sustains and markets itself as the premiere carrier hotel in New York.
• Epsilon’s Bold Gambit: Leading Telecoms to a Global Wholesale Partner Ecosystem — interview with Carl Roberts — A Global Wholesale Partnering Ecosystem is designed to be a universal connectivity solution for telecoms on all continents.  A leading builder of such an ecosystem reports on his company’s progress.
• The Meet Me Point: Queen Bee of the Wholesale Networking Hive — interview with Hunter Newby — Telecom meet me points (or carrier hotels) are the most valuable per-square-foot properties in wholesale ecosystems.  Learn the strategies and deal-making principles essential to creating successful meet me points.