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Windstream has announced that New Jersey-based BCN Telecom will soon be adding Windstream Wholesale's software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) solution to its nationwide portfolio.

PwC hires Brian Burns as a director to continue expanding its technology, media & telecommunications (TMT) deals strategy and operations team in London.

Equinix has established connectivity into Amazon Web Services (AWS) Direct Connect service in the New York region.

The breakaway north-east African state of Somaliland is claiming that neighbouring Somalia is trying to assert authority over its telecoms sector through a new law.

Nigeria’s telecoms regulator has told operators that they must abide by a code of conduct that it first published last year.

Denis O’Brien, owner of Caribbean and Pacific mobile operator Digicel, is the main shareholder behind Deep Blue Cable, which is planning a subsea fibre network around the Caribbean.

Accelerated and Juniper Networks have partnered to work together to combine agile networking with cellular connectivity.

KPN has bought a cloud-based provider of IT services to health and public sector organisations in the Netherlands.

Southern Telecom, Inc. (STI) has entered an agreement with Colo Atl to increase its fibre network building access.

Bangladesh’s telecoms and information communications ministry is fighting an internal war over which division is responsible for building and maintaining a $360 million national fibre network.

Luanda-based Internet Exchange Point (IXP) Angonix has grown exponentially to become the third largest African IXP, hitting peak traffic of 10.8Gbps.

Australian operator MNF is planning to grow its global wholesale business across the Asia-Pacific, the company has announced.

Australian satellite phone company Pivotel is buying a US satellite company as part of what it calls an accelerated push into the satellite data communications market.

Interconnection bandwidth is expected to grow at a 45% CAGR to reach 5,000Tbps by 2020, dwarfing global IP traffic in both growth (24%) and volume (855Tbps), according to Equinix’s inaugural Global Interconnection Index.

BT says it is investigating the promised benefits of virtualisation by replacing traditional network equipment with off-the-shelf IT and data centre gear.