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Africa Datacenter
MPT tests data-centre systems before site deployment
Master Power Technologies is using its Midrand testing centre to validate power and cooling systems before they are installed in African data centres.
Europe and Middle East Datacenter
Pure DC starts final 70MW Brent Cross phase
Glencar has started the West Shell of Pure DC's 70MW B2 facility, with completion scheduled for the second quarter of 2029.
North America Institutional Trends
Lands’ End’s 9% E-commerce Growth Carries Prior-Quarter Shipments
Lands’ End shipped enough delayed orders in its second quarter to help turn a 10.2% e-commerce decline into 9.0% growth. That is evidence of fulfilment recovery, but it is not a clean demand reading. The same warehouse system was still constraining value-added school-uniform…
North America National Telecom Trends
Telxius opens Cancún landing gateway
The new facility is already connected to Telxius's backbone and is due to host the Tikal submarine cable in 2027.
Global National Telecom Trends
GSMA pushes full upper 6GHz band for mobile
GSMA says the mobile industry is ready for upper 6GHz deployment, but national spectrum rules will decide what operators can actually use.
Africa National Telecom Trends
Telecom Egypt signs 5Pbps Sharm–Taba cable deal
The planned 200km cable will extend Telecom Egypt's Red Sea network to Taba, adding another route for traffic crossing Egypt between the Red Sea and Mediterranean.
Latin America and Caribbean Cloud Services Trends
Broadpeak’s Brazil expansion puts a time window on bandwidth
Local delivery nodes can bring a live stream closer to viewers. Selling certainty at the busiest moment requires a more precise promise.
IETF
IRTF Chair Nominations Close Today. The Workload Has Two Speeds
The next IRTF Chair is being recruited for a role described with an unusually candid pair of numbers: about a quarter of normal working time, then full-time attention for roughly six weeks each year. Nominations close at 23:59 UTC on 8 September. The IAB should preserve that…
Asia-Pacific National Telecom
Surge targets 9,800 FWA sites for 2027
Surge plans to expand its FWA network to 9,800 sites in 2027 while guiding to a 50–60% long-term EBITDA margin.
Asia-Pacific National Telecom Trends
Vocus pinpoints Australia-Singapore Cable break
Vocus has located the ASC break in Indonesian waters while internet traffic continues over alternative routes.
North America Cloud Services Trends
NETSCOUT makes a bid for the work before AI reasoning
A smaller model input can be valuable. The harder buying decision is what it costs to prepare that input—and who can inspect the choices behind it.
Europe and Middle East Cloud Services Trends
Silicom’s 5G win puts deployment timing in focus
Cellular integration helped secure a cloud-security customer. Turning that selection into a sizeable recurring hardware business is a different task.
Asia-Pacific Institutional Trends
Zepp’s Premium-Mix Evidence Arrives Before Its Earnings
Zepp can already show that buyers are choosing dearer watches and bands. It cannot yet show that those choices have crossed every commercial boundary between an activation, a channel order, recognized revenue and an operating profit. That distinction is the useful part of its…
North America Cloud Services Trends
Solomon e3’s cloud savings have three different sources
A reported bill reduction of more than half followed resource cleanup, resizing and a change of compute supplier. The useful lesson is how those interventions fit together, not a single headline discount.
North America Datacenter Trends
Lipman flags power and fibre constraints in US buildout
At Metro Connect Fall, Andrew Lipman linked AI demand to practical limits in grid access, fibre deployment, permitting and project delivery.
Asia-Pacific Datacenter Trends
Thailand asks 49 data-centre projects to pause
Thai officials have asked developers of 49 data-centre projects under construction to pause voluntarily while new national rules are prepared.
North America Cloud Services Trends
Equinix Fabric One moves network choices behind the service
The announced service would let customers specify the connection they want while providers do more of the assembly. That changes what an enterprise must buy—and what it must still be able to inspect.
Africa Datacenter
Digital Realty opens 6.4MW Nairobi data centre
NBO2 adds 6.4MW of capacity beside Digital Realty's existing Nairobi facility and an established Kenya Internet Exchange location.
Asia-Pacific National Telecom Trends
GeoCables flags INDIGO-West latency during Indonesia fire
GeoCables reported higher latency on INDIGO-West during an Indonesian forest fire, but found no evidence of a confirmed subsea cable break.
CASE FILE
W3C Combined Two Accessibility Calls. It Did Not Combine Their Mandates
Two calendars can become one without two institutions becoming the same institution. W3C’s Fixed Layout Accessibility Task Force has cancelled its separate call series and is moving its work into a joint accessibility meeting. That is a sensible reduction in coordination…