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Briefing
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North America Datacenter Trends
Meta-BlackRock $14bn data centre carries partial insurance
Insurance limits cover only part of Sopaipilla's potential losses, leaving lenders to rely more heavily on Meta's lease and contractual support.
Global National Telecom Trends
Ericsson, MediaTek test sub-30cm positioning over 5G
The trial sends GNSS correction data through 5G core and radio networks, putting precise outdoor positioning onto standard mobile-network infrastructure.
North America National Telecom Trends
FCC puts US terrestrial 100/20 coverage at 96.9%
Satellite lifts the FCC's reported 100/20 broadband availability to 99.7%, but terrestrial coverage remains lower and satellite performance can vary.
IETF
IETF narrows the proposed BGP-LS inter-AS topology key
A one-line deletion in revision 38 changes the identity material proposed for inter-AS link advertisements. The practical question is whether producers and controllers can move to the narrower descriptor set without leaving duplicate half-links or losing separation between…
Europe and Middle East National Telecom Trends
UK awards £13m to 16 satellite communications projects
UK Space Agency funding covers optical links, ground stations, onboard processing, rail connectivity, and terrestrial-network integration across 16 satellite communications projects.
Global Institutional Trends
Cisco changed today's PSIRT scope before the advisories land
Cisco's interim notice for its 19 August security release now names seven product groups, after adding Crosswork and removing Secure Firewall. For network teams, the revision is a reason to refresh the source before reserving the change window—not evidence that any listed system…
North America Institutional Trends
Prince George approves C$400,000 Northern Health fibre link
Prince George will add a second Northern Health fibre link before hospital construction severs an existing route, using revenue from its municipal network.
North America Datacenter Trends
Ford backs Ontario data centres to keep data in Canada
Ontario's draft framework would assess large data-centre projects on data sovereignty, economic contribution, and community benefit alongside grid requirements.
ICANN
ICANN’s .juniper successor comment window reaches its final day
Interested parties have until 23:59 UTC on 19 August to respond to ICANN’s preliminary view that Juniper Networks’ brand top-level domain does not need a successor registry. The contract is on an exit path, but the namespace is still listed in the root-zone system.
North America Datacenter Trends
Nvidia backs OpenAI Ohio data centre with $105bn guarantee
Nvidia's guarantee covers leases for 4.25GW of IT capacity, helping SB Energy finance the Ohio campus before OpenAI starts paying rent.
IETF
IETF formalises work on unicast local discovery
The DNSSD working group has taken ownership of a proposal that would let devices use a selected unicast server for local service discovery instead of answering every query through multicast. The proposed efficiency gain comes with a new dependency: the server-selection and…
North America Datacenter Trends
Alberta begins AI data-centre town halls in Ponoka
Alberta is opening public discussions on AI data centres as communities weigh power, water and infrastructure requirements alongside new investment.
Asia-Pacific Cloud Services Trends
Cloudflare's HKG maintenance will test two meanings of rerouting
Cloudflare plans a 19-hour maintenance window at its Hong Kong edge site. Anycast may send ordinary requests elsewhere, but private interconnect customers still have to prove that another interface, route and pool of capacity can actually carry their traffic.
Europe and Middle East National Telecom Trends
Telecom Plus adds 162,032 shares to treasury
Telecom Plus is continuing its £40m buyback as investment rises, making capital allocation the key issue in its next growth phase.
Africa Institutional Trends
AfPIF opens in Kigali with interconnection on the table
The 15th African Peering and Interconnection Forum is under way in Rwanda with operators, exchanges and infrastructure providers facing a practical test: a meeting can lower the cost of finding partners, but only new sessions, routes and capacity can change how traffic moves.
Global Cloud Services Trends
GitHub says retries prolonged its 7h47 outage
GitHub’s new account of its 17 August disruption says a Central US capacity failure spread through shared authentication gateways, while repeated token requests kept part of the platform under pressure after most services had recovered.
Global Cloud Services Trends
Linode schedules a 90-minute cloud-control pause
Akamai's Linode cloud says its management interfaces will go offline worldwide from 04:00 to 05:30 UTC on 19 August, leaving customers unable to change instance or Kubernetes state even as existing compute is expected to continue.
Global Institutional Trends
Blue Origin begins Quartz rollout with RBC Signals
Blue Origin has tested three Quartz ground stations and plans nine sites by year-end, using RBC Signals to accelerate deployment and hosting.
North America National Telecom Trends
Space Force awards $60m for multi-vendor SDN integration
The Space Force will test cross-network links and orbital routers as it tries to connect commercial satellite systems through standard interfaces.
North America Cloud Services Trends
BUZZ HPC signs $350m AI cloud contract
BUZZ will deploy 2,016 GPUs at Bell's Merritt facility under a five-year customer contract, with service targeted to begin in Q4 2026.