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Bill Yates

Capacity Media

Recent Articles

  • ITW’s Keynote Chat Show returned this year, with 8 connectivity leaders taking turns to jump on stage and share their perspectives. Here is what we learned.
  • For the next Data Centre of the Month, Capacity looks at Datacenter Mutualisé Lorrain (DCML), a shared data centre built for a hospital, a university, and a regional government – and a successful example of ‘micro-colocation’.
  • A number of subsea cable projects serving Europe are due to complete in 2024 and 2025 - here are profiles of nine of them.
  • Capacity Latam has just wrapped up in São Paulo after two days of South America-focused discussion and information sharing. Here are 9 things we learned from the sessions and the networking this year – some that are obvious, and some that might not have been.
  • For the second Data Centre of the Month, we head north to Iceland – and north again from Reykjavik to Akureyri, where atNorth opened its 12MW ICE03 facility in 2023.
  • AI began to dominate the connectivity conversation in 2023, and as the sector looks into the remaining 10 months of 2024, it forms a large part of the various prediction pieces that the industry expects to happen this year.
  • Metro Connect long-time speaker Andrew Lipman, Partner at Morgan Lewis, took to the stage as the digital infrastructure event opened in Miami – and he has some questions that need answering. Here is his take on 10 pressing issues for the US broadband market that he expects to dominate the conversation this year.
  • Capacity Middle East wrapped in Dubai after three busy days. 105 speakers took to the stages this year to share their perspectives on every aspect of the region’s connectivity landscape – here are eight interesting conclusions this year.
  • For the first Data Centre of the Month in 2024, we profile a data centre that is pioneering in its scale and its design – the GAK Sejong facility in South Korea, built by the country’s leading hyperscale operator Naver.
  • We are nearly a month into 2024, and there has been much written about where the connectivity industry is heading this year. Capacity has kept an eye on the predictions made, and many of them fall into several main areas.
  • Network automation uses programmable logic to manage network functions. This involves taking the manual tasks involved in managing a network and passing them to software programs to do instead.
  • As the Capacity Asia event wrapped up after two bustling days, the Capacity team looked back to the conversations and presentations that took place in Singapore – here are 8 things we learned.
  • Network slicing allows you to operate multiple virtualised networks, or ‘network slices,’ across one set of network infrastructure – like two different train companies using the same tracks and signals.
  • As this year’s Capacity Europe, the big and obvious topics occupied a lot of discussion space – AI, talent in tech, sustainable operations, and representation of women in telco and tech. But what else did we learn from the three days in London?
  • Submarine cables are all about connecting different parts of the world. As a historical hub between east and west, the Middle East region has long been a crossing point for the world’s undersea connectivity – particularly through Egypt, which runs many cables through its territory.
  • If telcos want to provide the quality of service to keep customers and win new ones, they need to enhance every aspect of their service delivery. This is where partnerships outside of the traditional telco world come in.
  • Massive growth in connectivity demand in Asia has led to increased capacity requirements, and construction of submarine and subsea cables is growing to meet this demand. An estimated $2.6 billion worth of current and future submarine cable projects are planned for completion by 2025 – here are profiles of 12 of the most important.
  • Satellite connectivity currently represents around 1% of the total telco ecosystem – but it’s an important 1%.
  • 10 years of cheap money and low inflation is coming to an end. This is having strong effects on the investment and dealmaking environment – no more so than in connectivity, where fixed networks are proving an attractive target, especially as indebted telcos look to raise cash through divestments. Here is a rundown of seven of the most important connectivity and telco deals in Europe this year – what they’re worth, what they involve, and what they mean for the industry.
  • Covering a continent’s worth of connectivity in three days is a tough ask – but that’s what the ITW Africa agenda will try to do. There have been several interesting developments, projects and focus areas in the African telecoms and connectivity market in 2023 – here are just five of them in areas that ITW Africa will address in September.
  • Bridge Alliance, Singtel and Ericsson took home a Global Carrier Award in 2022 in the Best IoT Initiative category for a collaboration allowing eSIM swaps in connected car operation. The partnership is built on Singtel's Multi-Domestic Connectivity solution, powered by Ericsson's IoT Accelerator platform that deploys services seamlessly and efficiently across the region, and Bridge Alliance's tight-knit community of tier-one mobile operators in the region.
  • Entries are now open to the 2023 edition of the Global Carrier Awards. So it’s a good time to look back at some of the companies, projects and initiatives that won in 2022 and how they have pushed on in 2023 – starting with the Southern Cross NEXT cable project, winner of the Project of the Year – Subsea category.
  • Italian service provider Sparkle took home a 2022 Global Carrier Award (GCA) in the Best Subsea Innovation category, for its Genoa Landing Platform (GLP) submarine cable landing infrastructure in northern Italy.