Capacity Voice

The net neutrality debate is once again rearing its head. As cloud, video and mobile continue to drive bandwidth demand, carriers are left in a difficult position on how to best manage network access.

Today’s mobile network operators (MNOs) are contending with a host of new market challenges. A new wave of regulatory requirements, the commoditisation of many services, the increasing competition from OTT players and the infrastructure investment requirement for LTE represent just a few of the new forces reshaping the industry.

Richard Dorgan, marketing director at Interxion, defines data centre neutrality and explores how it could transform operations for businesses in the digital economy.

The global cloud services market has seen substantial growth in the last five years, with companies turning to cloud for new revenue growth and customer solutions.

As I sat down to write this blog on Tuesday afternoon, July 29th, 2014, the US stock market was heading gently downward. However, the most important of industries had virtually all companies – from AT&T and Verizon down to the smallest telco service providers – with stocks next to those lovely, upward-facing green arrows.

“The customer is truly always right,” says Jim Leach, VP of marketing at RagingWire Data Centers. “Customer feedback through NPS is fundamental to our business planning.”

Do you sometimes find that you spend more time browsing and consuming content on your smartphone or tablet than you spend watching TV?

Since 1995 (yikes!) we have been asking wholesale customers to rate their carriers in a wide range of categories.

Industry analysis suggests more than 1,000 service providers and network operators worldwide now utilise CE technologies to support high-performance Ethernet & Ethernet-enabled data services, interconnect network-enabled cloud services, underpin 4G/LTE mobile services and consumer triple play services, and meet internal networking needs.

100G, 500G, ultra-fast, super-channel. With so many different terms flying about in the industry – all basically relating to very fast internet speeds – what really is 100G?