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North America company intelligence maps internet infrastructure operators, cloud service providers, telecom networks, data centre companies, registries, alliances, standards bodies, and institutional market actors across North American internet infrastructure markets.
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North America Cloud Services
Motorola Cloud Services Networking is visible in the routing table—but who controls the service behind it?
Motorola Cloud Services Networking is visible in the routing table—but who controls the service behind it? intelligence summary explains the development, the public evidence available to readers, the organisations involved, the regional context, market exposure, and the…
North America National Telecom
Verizon secures six-year Corning fibre supply
Verizon will receive more than 80 million fibre miles from Corning between 2027 and 2032 for broadband and long-haul network construction.
North America Datacenter
Compu Dynamics moves AI data-centre construction off-site
Compu Dynamics is expanding factory-built delivery for AI projects, shifting more power, cooling and white-space work away from the construction site.
North America Cloud Services
FreeCast targets telecom operators with streaming PaaS
FreeCast is pitching its streaming platform to telecom and broadband providers, with Assist Wireless and enTouch Wireless already signed to use the service.
North America Cloud Services
The Sheriff Could Not Auction the Registrar's Service: Network Solutions v. Umbro
A portfolio of domain names looked like an asset a sheriff could sell. The Supreme Court of Virginia focused on the missing link: the winning bidder still needed Network Solutions to accept a new registration relationship and keep the names operational.
North America Regional ISP
Regional connectivity needs an operating chain
Plateau Telecommunications shows why coverage depends on paths, power, staff, equipment and visible regulatory milestones working together.
North America Regional ISP
Plateau Telecommunications and the Record of Regional Connectivity
Regional communications become dependable through a chain of ordinary controls: usable paths, accurate routing, powered facilities, staffed operations, replaceable equipment and visible regulatory milestones. Plateau Telecommunications offers a useful, bounded record for…
North America National Telecom
AT&T selects Ericsson for EchoStar 600MHz rollout
AT&T is preparing to deploy EchoStar’s 600 MHz spectrum after already putting the acquired 3.45 GHz holdings into service.
North America Cloud Services
Azure's 2021 DNS failure turned edge-cache overload into an accountability test
On 1 April 2021, Azure DNS stopped being a dependable naming layer for a period that Microsoft placed between 21:21 and 22:00 UTC. Resolution failures made a range of Azure and Microsoft services intermittently difficult or impossible to reach. Microsoft later said that an…
North America National Telecom
CenturyLink's 2020 FlowSpec outage made input validation a backbone-control accountability test
On 30 August 2020, a routing-control incident inside CenturyLink's Level 3 backbone disrupted reachability far beyond one customer, city or application. CenturyLink later attributed the event to a problematic BGP FlowSpec announcement. A request intended to block one address, the…
North America National Telecom
Mobilicity After the 2015 Rogers Acquisition: What Historic Spectrum Transfer Records Do Not Prove About Current Network Control
Three records from 2015 document a completed acquisition, regulated spectrum-licence transfers and a plan for customer continuity. Together they establish a historical chain of administrative control, but they do not identify the present operator of a network or prove that…
North America National Telecom
Bright House Networks, LLC: What a 2016 Acquisition and an ARIN Registry Record Do Not Prove About Current Network Control
A historical acquisition record and a later-visible registry identity can both be accurate while answering different questions. Reading those records together requires a strict boundary between corporate history, administrative continuity and evidence of who controls a network…
North America Institutional
Equinix and the physical interconnection layer where networks meet
Equinix turned a simple proposition—that competing networks need neutral places to meet—into a global interconnection platform. Its influence comes from operating the physical and digital meeting points whose value, and switching costs, grow as more entities connect.
North America Cloud Services
Microsoft's 2023 WAN outage turned an unqualified router command into two routing waves
A platform-specific command escaped the boundary implied by Microsoft's change procedure, forced its global WAN to recompute reachability, and exposed why authorization is not the same as proven operational scope.
North America Institutional
What AS393598 Shows About Affinity Credit Union’s Network Identity
What AS393598 Shows About Affinity Credit Union’s Network Identity 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…
North America National Telecom
CenturyLink's 2018 outage showed how an unused management channel became a national failure path
Four malformed packets should not be able to disable a national communications network. Yet in December 2018, four packets generated at one CenturyLink node entered a management channel that the operator knew about but did not use, spread through connected equipment, and helped…
North America National Telecom
Lumen's 2022 Dakota 911 outages showed why backup paths need a real dependency map
Emergency calls failed to reach 11 local 911 centres in western North Dakota because routes described as backups still converged on infrastructure the live call path could not bypass. Five days earlier, a different Lumen outage in South Dakota had already shown another form of…
North America National Telecom
Verizon's repeated 2022 911 outages showed the gap between a corrective action and a tested safeguard
A known bad update file returned to Verizon Wireless's live network after an earlier outage. The Federal Communications Commission says the December recurrence then prevented hundreds of 911 calls from completing. For a person trying to reach emergency help, the practical…
North America Institutional
Fastly and the programmable edge that reshaped content delivery
Fastly was founded on the proposition that content delivery should not be a remote utility configured outside the software-development process. It built a CDN around programmable cache behaviour, rapid invalidation, real-time telemetry and an intentionally concentrated network of…
North America Regional ISP
Inside The Internet, Inc and AS14473 show two announced IPv4 prefixes with uneven RPKI coverage
Inside The Internet, Inc and AS14473 show two announced IPv4 prefixes with uneven RPKI coverage intelligence summary explains the development, the public evidence available to readers, the organisations involved, the regional context, market exposure, and the infrastructure…