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Europe and Middle East Cloud Services Trends
PerfGrid evidence needs a layer label
PerfGrid’s public record spans company statements, registry data, operator directories and time-bound routing observations; each source supports a different operational claim.
North America Datacenter Trends
Minneapolis 511 Building outage disrupts Midwest connectivity
The carrier hotel hosts MICE, dozens of carriers and multiple colocation providers, making it a major regional interconnection site.
Story
AFRINIC called transfer-policy criticism “mischievous.” The authority case is still open
AFRINIC answered outside criticism of its transfer policy by declaring its Board properly constituted, defending a bottom-up process and directing members to official channels. Its own litigation page now records the challenge to that Board’s ratification as ongoing. The gap is…
Asia-Pacific National Telecom Trends
Two Perth cable faults prompt call for AFP investigation
Two faults inside Perth’s protected cable corridor have raised questions about their cause and whether the incidents were connected.
Europe and Middle East Institutional
MDM announces Ireland-US subsea cable system
The proposed transatlantic system would add another fibre route between Ireland and the United States.
Global Cloud Services
Google plans three new Americas subsea cables
Alisios, Canoa and OlaLuz would make the Dominican Republic a common junction between planned Caribbean, Pacific and Atlantic routes.
Europe and Middle East National Telecom
TalkTalk transfers 13,500 customers to Fleur Telecom
Fleur Telecom sits inside TalkTalk-controlled Telecom Acquisitions, so the 13,500 broadband and phone accounts remain within the wider group.
Asia-Pacific Datacenter Trends
Australia prepares binding power rules for large data centres
Australia is preparing binding power rules for large data centres as 5.4GW of proposed demand moves through the transmission connection process.
Story
AFRINIC named four election gatekeepers. It did not show how its Board chose them
AFRINIC’s 2026 Nomination Committee decided who reached final slates for seven governance positions. The Board published the four appointees and later identified a chair, but the fixed public record does not show the applicant pool, the appointment assessment, conflict…
Asia-Pacific Regional ISP Trends
PXNET’s two ASNs need two evidence lines
PXNET’s two ASNs need two evidence lines intelligence summary explains the development, the public evidence available to readers, the organisations involved, the regional context, market exposure, and the infrastructure consequences that may follow. The Asia-Pacific Regional ISP…
Europe and Middle East Regional ISP Trends
INTERBIT’s ASN does not prove hosting control
INTERBIT’s ASN does not prove hosting control intelligence summary explains the development, the public evidence available to readers, the organisations involved, the regional context, market exposure, and the infrastructure consequences that may follow. The Europe and Middle…
Europe and Middle East Datacenter Trends
UK government approves Brick Lane data centre
The government has approved Truman Estates’ Brick Lane data centre after Tower Hamlets councillors unanimously said the application should have been refused.
Europe and Middle East National Telecom Trends
Eutelsat expands 5G NTN work beyond OneWeb
Eutelsat is testing 5G NTN on OneWeb while preparing replenishment satellites, IRIS² and a proposed new constellation for standards-based integration.
Europe and Middle East National Telecom
Hisdesat selects Airbus and Thales to build SpainSat NG III
Hisdesat has awarded Airbus and Thales Alenia Space the SpainSat NG III replacement programme, with launch planned for the third quarter of 2030.
Story
AFRINIC sought an HR audit. Its Remuneration Committee’s follow-through is not public
AFRINIC opened an unusually specific HR consultancy process in April: test the skills of 41 staff, review performance appraisal and build a succession plan for business continuity. Four months later, the public procurement notice remains easy to find. The award, signing date…
Academics
Every network metric needs a failure model
Nick Feamster’s work made configuration, broadband and censorship measurable. A metric becomes operational evidence only when it states how it can be wrong.
Story
A 106–34 tally is not an electorate
AFRINIC disclosed the vote that assigned an extra year, but not the voter register, turnout denominator or complete eligibility record needed to audit it.
Story
An interim refusal does not decide the policy
AFRINIC’s docket lists a policy challenge, a declined and unserved interim application, and an appeal. All remain ongoing; none is a published merits judgment.
Africa Institutional
The campus edge is UbuntuNet’s service floor
A 10 Gbps regional core cannot improve research sessions that terminate behind a constrained campus circuit, firewall, Wi-Fi network or power supply.
Africa Institutional
Backbone capacity needs an adoption ledger
UbuntuNet’s move from roughly 2.5 to 10 Gbps is a regional input. Its value depends on which universities can actually use the added capacity and keep paying for it.