North Carolina's NorthState and Virginia’s Lumos Networks are unifying under the Lumos brand to build 20,000 miles of fiber optic networks.

The combo will initially target the education sector where the two companies are already working to deliver 5G private networks.

Global 5G services to hit $700 billion by 2027; VMWare expands its multi-cloud strategy; and Intel offers $1.25 billion in green bonds.

Gartner predicts global semiconductor revenue; Cisco's new organization fuses enterprise networking & cloud; and Verizon on security breaches.

"We have an opportunity to partner with them as a – what I would call subcontractor – where they already have sales forces and relationships," Dish's Charlie Ergen said.

The FCC opens Auction 108; Illumio's zero-trust assessment; and Amazon Web Services, Microsoft, and Google rake 65% of Q2's cloud market.

TeleGeography found MPLS and access loops connecting to MPLS points of presence make up 60% of the market for large multinational enterprise WANs.

“It’s as if the entire industry woke up and said, yes, now is the time to retrofit my broadband networks for the next 10 to 15 years," analyst Jeff

Navajo Nation executive Tico Charlee and FirstNet Tribal Affairs Specialist Angel Benally discuss the coverage expansion and its impacts on the 27,000 miles of land.

Mediacom wants to launch fixed-wireless access service to expand its reach without having to deploy a more extensive – and costly – fiber footprint.

The Emergency Connectivity Fund is part of the bipartisan American Rescue Plan Act passed last year.

Juniper updated its Cloud Metro plans; data center M&A surges; and ransomware challenges security plans.

RINA will host the core architecture, providing rural carriers a platform for a cost-efficient, low-touch, flexible path to a 5G SA network.

COO Jeff McElfresh restated those plans during a recent investor event, noting that traffic growth curves require a deeper fiber investment.

Cybersecurity's game of chance; CrowdStrike expands its XDR Alliance efforts; and AT&T, USTelecom's aid in universal broadband.

The sustainable bond will fund projects to improve the operator's network energy efficiency by transitioning copper networks to fiber networks.

The carrier continues to plan for enterprise 5G opportunities with MEC, private 5G, and broadband delivered by fiber and fixed wireless access.

“Cisco clearly came out on top, gaining 0.7% share in a market worth $231.4 billion," MTN Consulting's Matt Walker said.

A new federal strategy moves U.S. government agencies toward a zero-trust approach; Juniper takes on Cisco and Nokia.

The FCC allocated $1.2 billion to fund broadband deployments; Pluribus released the seventh generation of its SDN platform; and Cisco has big dreams of growing its Networking Academy.

The latest funding wave will deliver broadband service to more than 1 million locations at a taxpayer cost of about $1,200 per connection up front.

Cisco's $4.5 billion Acacia acquisition was the most significant and disruptive optical deal of 2021, Dell’Oro Group VP Jimmy Yu said.

Never mind the elusive killer apps for 5G. What if 5G’s killer apps were staring right at us all along?

“We’re having a seven-times expansion of the addressable market and we’ve never had so many end-market opportunities for Qualcomm as we see today,” CEO Cristiano Amon said.