Out-of-box thinker Hunter Newby is at it again. His company, Newby Ventures, is 50% of a new joint venture — Connected Nation Internet Exchange Points (CNIXP) — that aims to establish 125 new carrier-neutral internet exchange points (IXPs) in markets…
AT&T said today that it has deployed disaggregated IP routing at the network edge. The news is the latest in a string of developments AT&T has announced as part of the carrier’s broad plans to move toward a network based…
Ziply, a unit of WaveDivision Capital, has acquired telecom infrastructure provider Wholesail Networks and has announced 13 Northwest markets that will receive fiber upgrades. The markets include tier 2 and 3 markets in Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Montana – the…
Windstream Wholesale international connectivity will expand as the result of a new agreement to use Telxius to connect the Windstream Wholesale core network to the Marea and Brusa Cable Station Landing in Virginia Beach, VA. Telxius is the telecommunication infrastructure…
Charter has agreed to a settlement valued at $174.2 million to resolve a suit brought against the company by the attorney general of the state of New York. The Charter New York settlement came in response to charges that the…
Rural broadband is receiving a lot of attention from policymakers these days on both the administrative and legislative fronts. A wide range of rural broadband legislation has been introduced in the House, and the Senate Broadband Caucus has sent a…
The FCC will vote next month on an order that would reverse Net Neutrality guidelines imposed in 2015 under the previous administration, senior commission officials told reporters today. The order also would reclassify broadband as a more lightly regulated Title…
Netflix is asking the FCC to establish a 10 Mbps downstream, 1 Mbps upstream definition for mobile broadband and to consider the impact that broadband caps have on the deployment of advanced telecom capability. The OTT video provider made its…
At a time when some data center operators are trying to one-up each other on reliability, it might seem surprising to learn that open standards organization Open-IX is moving in the opposite direction. The organization is working on edge data…
Telecom IPX is a hot topic, as the results of a survey presented at International Telecoms Week in Chicago yesterday revealed. In a survey of global telecom wholesalers conducted by Capacity Media, 69% cited IP exchange (IPX) as a game changing technology…
FCC approval for Charter TWC Bright House merger plans, announced late Friday, means the deal could close soon. The only remaining hurdle is the California Public Utilities Commission, which is expected to vote to approve the deal this week. Charter’s…
Updated November 30 with information from Cogent Press releases about IP interconnection agreements tend to be among the shortest ever written – and an announcement of an agreement between CenturyLink and Cogent today was no exception. The two-sentence release noted…
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