Clouds and Carriers

Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) is taking action on a temporary and expedited basis that allows competitors sell Internet services using the fibre-to-the-home networks of large telephone companies in...

Bell Canada is working with FirstLight Fiber to offer 400G wavelengths services with triple redundancy routes between Secaucus, NJ, Toronto and Montréal. The new routes will terminate in Equinix's data...

W3TEL a French provider of communications services to enterprises, has selected Ribbon's solutions to support its growth, simplify its network operations and fulfill French government mandates around call security, STIR/SHAKEN...

Orange Business announced Flexible SD-WAN with VMware as an embedded SD-WAN offering in its Evolution Platform. Orange Business says customers consuming Flexible SD-WAN with VMware via Evolution Platform will benefit...

Optus experienced an Australia-wide blackout across its mobile and landline networks for most of Wednesday, November 8.  Service has now been restored.The company said the problem was a network fault,...

Microsoft is using Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) AI infrastructure, along with Microsoft Azure AI infrastructure, for inferencing of AI models that are being optimized to power Microsoft Bing conversational searches...

Arelion will offer direct connectivity to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) via OCI FastConnect in the new Oracle Cloud Monterrey Region in Monterrey, Mexico.  Arelion Cloud Connect will provide customers with...

Red Hat announced the general availability of Red Hat Device Edge, a platform designed for resource-constrained environments which require small form factor compute at the device edge, including Internet of...

TIM agreed to sell its fixed network assets (NetCo) to Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. (KKR), a U.S.-based investment group. The binding offer values NetCo (excluding Sparkle) at an Enterprise...

BT reported revenue of £10.4bn for the six month period to 30-September, in line with the prior year; adjusted revenue £10.4bn, up 3% on a pro forma basis due to...

Bharti Airtel introduced a  wholesale, unified platform for global interconnect with other operators. “Airtel Advantage” will offer International Voice, A2P, P2A, P2P SMS, Direct Inward Dialing (DID) and International Toll...

LigaT will deploy  a 400GE-capable network across Portugal using Nokia’s 7750 Service Router (SR) and 7250 Interconnect Router (IXR) systems. The new infrastructure allows LigaT, a regional ISP offering multi-play media services...

Colt Technology Services, headquartered in London, completed its acquisition of Lumen Technologies’ European, Middle Eastern, and African (EMEA) business. Colt paid US$1.8 billion cash for the assets, which included Lumen’s...