GTT has announced it is acquiring Perseus, who own a high-speed network covering the Americas, Europe, South Africa, and major hubs in Asia. This will add major routes to GTT's…
AT&T buys Vyatta assets from Brocade
AT&T are buying from Brocade their Vyatta assets. Brocade's IP network assets are being split out and sold off as part of their impending sale to Broadcom . The Vyatta…
Aryaka State of the WAN Report 2017
Aryaka released their State of the WAN report for 2017 today. This is a report that uses data gathered from over 5000 locations in 63 countries, and reports on the…
Cyxtera created from DC and Security companies
CenturyLink has sold its data center and co-location business, as announced in their press-release CenturyLink reaches an agreement to sell data centers and co-location business to a consortium led by…
Equinix buys Verizon data centers
Equinix has completed a transaction to buy 29 Verizon data centers announced in December 2016. The $3.6bn transaction brings the datacenters, 250 staff and 1000 customers to Equinix's portfolio. These…
AT&T Open Sources ECOMP for network and NFV orchestration
Yesterday AT&T handed over control of it's ECOMP (Enhanced Control, Orchestration, Management and Policy) engine to the Linux Foundation, moving the development of their VNF orchestrator into the Open Source…
Bluecoat to be gobbled by Symantec
Symantec have made a grab for BlueCoat Systems. Symantec's press release wants to portray this as an attempt to redefine cybersecurity for the future. The boards of both companies agree…
Quintillion acquires Arctic Fibre
Quintillion has acquired Arctic Fibre, the Toronto, Canada based company, intending to provide a polar routed fibre between Europe and Japan. On Quintillion's webpage (Arctic Fibre Acquired by Quintillion Networks),…