by Pivot
Tag: Data Center
Great Plains Communications Announces 100G Capability
Blair, Nebraska — January 26, 2017 — Great Plains Communications, the largest middle-mile and last-mile provider in the state of Nebraska has completed 100G capable upgrades on their entire 8,000+ mile, diverse fiber network. The 100G…
Wave Buys Cascade in Yet Another Fiber Consolidation Deal
A regional provider of business and residential gigabit fiber network services, Washington state’s Wave on Jan. 20 announced it had acquired Cascade Networks. As Wave buys Cascade, it will gain more than 350 route miles…
CenturyLink Big Data as a Service Could Mesh with Enterprise Digital Transformation Plans
If you haven’t done so already, it’s time to add big-data-as-a-service to your cloud service lexicon. CenturyLink yesterday launched CenturyLink Big Data as a Service (BDaaS) with Managed Cloudera, a data management and analytics service…
Gigabit Connections Reach TDS OneNeck Data Center
DES MOINES, Iowa (Jan. 20, 2017) — OneNeck IT Solutions announced today general availability of OneNeck Connect for businesses in and around Des Moines, Iowa. OneNeck Connect provides area businesses with access to a 1…
Data Center Divestiture Trend Continues with Verizon Data Center Sale to Equinix
Larger telecom carriers have entered a data center divestiture stage, with Verizon as the latest example. Data center operator Equinix will buy 24 data center sites from Verizon for $3.6 billion in cash. The 24…
TDS Implements Analytics Using Equinox
Nashville, Tennesee — November 22, 2016 — Leading telecom solutions supplier Equinox Information Systems announced today that TDS Telecom, the 7th largest local exchange telephone company in the U.S., has deployed the TeleLink usage analytics…
CS&L CFO: Dark Fiber is Great Fit for Telecom REIT Strategy
Dark fiber is a great fit for a telecom REIT strategy, said Communications Sales & Leasing Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer Mark Wallace at a financial conference yesterday. The reason is that…
CenturyLink Data Center Sale Continues Telecom Data Center Divestiture Trend
CenturyLink today reached an agreement to sell its data centers to “funds advised by BC Partners, in a consortium including Medina Capital Advisors and Longview Asset Management.” The CenturyLink data center sale will generate $2.15…
Digital Transformation Forecast: 40% of Initiatives to Include Artificial Intelligence by 2019
Information and communications technology (ICT) stands at an evolutionary inflection point as ¨3rd Platforms¨ comprised of cloud, Big Data and social technologies are being adopted on a massive scale, according to a digital transformation forecast…
Juniper Exec Shares Details of WOW! Cloud CPE
Offering business customers cost-saving options for customer premises equipment (CPE) using advanced software technology need not be the exclusive domain of the nation’s largest business service providers, as recent news from tier two cable operator…
Hitachi Selects ViaWest for Data Center Services
October 03, 2016 — DENVER–(BUSINESS WIRE)–ViaWest, a leading provider of Hybrid IT Solutions and Colocation in North America, announced today that Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) has selected ViaWest as the exclusive colocation provider for its…
FirstLight Fiber Gets e911 Contract
Albany, NY – September 29, 2016 –FirstLight Fiber, a leading fiber-optic bandwidth infrastructure services provider operating in New York and Northern New England, announced today that INdigital, a national leader in the provisioning of next…