Packets Down Range #23:Events, new backbone routes, data center fire

Patreon Edition is available here Data Center News •Databank starts construction on ATL4. . The colocation facility will feature 200,000 square feet of raised floor space and four megawatts of power. •Don’t let a tree cause an outage for your Data Center. •DartPoints acquires Louisiana provider Venyu. Data center provider DartPoints has acquired Louisiana-based Venyu … Read more

Packets Down Range #22:Databank, Bluebird, war over undersea cables

Data Center News •Databank completes a 24,000-square-foot expansion in SNA, which is in Irvine, California •More Data Centers coming to Ashburn. Both H5 and Edgecore announce new builds. Backbone and Fiber news •Cogent Earnings call on May 4th. •Bluebird Networks announces John Nolan as the new Chief Development Officer. •War over undersea cables. Subsea cables, … Read more

Packets Down Range #18:Water cooling, fiber, and great rack!

Next week is WISPAMERICA2023 in Louisville Kentucky. I will be attending. Before then, I am going to try and squeeze in another PDR before the conference next week. If you have not signed up, please do so at this link. Data Center News•Google is getting in on the water cooling trend in their data centers. … Read more

Packets Down Range #17:Cogent Wavelengths, earnings news, DDoS

I am fresh back from Nanog #87 in Atlanta. Great times! Thank you to those who gave me some lines on this week’s news articles. Keep those submissions coming. By now, everyone who has signed up should be receiving this in their e-mail box. If you could simply comment at the bottom of this post … Read more

Packets Down Range #3: October 27 ISP News & More

For this edition, I am posting it a day early. Depending on how traffic goes, Thursday may be the new day for this newsletter. Since we are still new, expect some changes like this until things work out. If you are a supporter, don’t forget about the Patreon edition, which has even more news. Fall … Read more