UK ISPs and altnets on Openreach’s telephone exchange exits
DCD talks to Zen, Netomnia, CityFibre, Neos Networks, and APFN about the UK’s upcoming mass exchange closure
Long Reads - Connectivity, Dan Swinhoe, DCD
In-depth features about the data center, AI, semiconductor, telco, and energy markets
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Copper exchanges in all shapes and sizes
A dive into the history of telephone exchanges in the UK
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BT’s landlord looms large over the UK’s telephone exchanges
What's to become of the UK's old telephone exchanges?
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Copper gets the cold shoulder
The end is nigh amid the global fiber rollout
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Paying the premium: Why 2023 was a bad year for space insurance
Last year was the worst ever in the space insurance market – could satellite innovation be stifled as a result?
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Houthi crisis in Red Sea spurs interest in alternative fiber routes
Eyes have long been focused on deploying fiber cable routes to avoid Egypt, but now attentions are turning to bypassing Yemen, too
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The Houthis and the Red Sea: A new risk to subsea cables
Intentional or otherwise, terrorists are now a threat to global connectivity
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DCD Magazine out now: 3D printing a data center
Would you print a data center?
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The rise and rebirth of carrier hotels
What role do legacy interconnection hubs have a place in a cloud & Edge ecosystem?
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New York, New York! The NYC carrier hotel microcosm
The Big Apple looks to rebrand as an interconnection city
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Space comes for fiber: Can satellites offer data centers a new resiliency option?
SES pitches its new mPower fleet as a viable alternative to fiber for telcos and data center operators
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A brief history of cable ships
170 years of subsea cable history, dragged into place by ships
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The cable ship capacity crunch
Demand for cable continues to increase, but the fleet laying and maintaining them is small and aging
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Making subsea cables smart, and helping save the planet
How SMART repeaters could help the fight against global warming
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Connecting the South Pole
Why a subsea cable to the edge of Antarctica might not lessen the South Pole’s reliance on satellites
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Antarctica comes in from the cold: Building subsea cables to the last unconnected continent
Could a submarine cable finally be close to connecting the last unconnected continent?
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Submarine cables find new impetus under hyperscalers
The tides of subsea cable trends are changing rapidly amid new investments and development
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Turbulence in the stratosphere: the state of HAPS post-Loon
Alphabet’s high altitude balloons were going to connect rural areas and usher in a new era of sub-satellite comms. Has its closure shut the door on a whole industry?
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What is a submarine cable? Subsea fiber explained
Our wireless world depends on a few hundred fiber cables laid on the ocean floor
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OpenRAN healthcheck; is it succeeding in its goals?
The Edge will rely on 5G and other radio communications which can be expensive and proprietary. OpenRAN might change that, but it’s still being finished