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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…
North America Cloud Services Trends
OVHcloud restores connectivity after Vint Hill rack fault
OVHcloud restored connectivity at its Vint Hill data centre after a network fault linked to one rack affected bare-metal and network services.
North America Institutional Trends
Pro-Dex’s 35% Q4 Margin Still Runs Through One Customer
Pro-Dex more than doubled quarterly gross profit while sales rose only 17%. The result looks like operating leverage, and part of it is. It also compares a full quarter of a next-generation surgical handpiece with a period in which the customer kept that product on hold for most…
Global Datacenter Trends
DigitalBridge flags data-centre and GPU lifespan mismatch
DigitalBridge's Jon Mauck says data centres can last 20 years while GPUs may last five to seven, complicating long-term AI infrastructure finance.
North America Regional ISP Trends
Vision Net stretches its 800G business beyond Billings
The Discovery Network gives a locally backed operator a longer route to market. Its commercial test is selling useful connections, not winning another speed headline.
Asia-Pacific Institutional Trends
Papua adds temporary broadband at Lake Sentani Festival
Papua and Telkom used three load-balanced IndiBiz links to support connectivity during the Lake Sentani Festival.
Asia-Pacific Datacenter Trends
LG Uplus forms alliance for 100MW modular AI data centres
LG Uplus and four construction partners will develop modular designs for 100MW-class AI data centres and conversions of existing buildings.
North America Cloud Services Trends
Zscaler gives its smaller-business push a channel route
Its Carahsoft expansion pairs standard bundles with repeatable deployment work. Dedicated enterprise sellers show where that model stops.