Blogs by Hunter Newby
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More Fiber For Africa
And the beat goes on... Aquiva in Zimbabwe has begun the process to build a new dark fiber network in the country. Africa is making big, huge moves which will ultimately move the continent up the socio-economic ladder like a shot. Invesment in the region...
Fiber to Cuba? Absolutamente!
It is certainly worth noticing that as many network industry people in the US ignorantly believe that there is no need to build any new fiber routes for any reason in this country (new data centers, diversity, better fiber, lower latency, w...
Hong Kong IX Goes With Cisco
The Hong Kong Internet Exchange (HKIX) has selected the Cisco Nexus 7000, Cisco's Next Generation Data Center Ethernet Switch. This is interesting because it is the first global top 10 Internet Exchange to use Cisco. Does this mean they are gaining...
151 Front Street West Toronto SOLD
The key Carrier Hotel for Eastern Canada has been sold for $192 Million (CDN) to Allied Properties. It goes without saying that this is a great building and a truly National treasure, so it is an accomplishment to purchase at any price, but business being...
New Fiber Threatens Incumbent in Cameroon
The Cameroonian incumbent, CamTel, doesn't like MTN building their own new fiber, so somehow MTN is in violation of some rule from 1977 and they must halt all fiber building. It seems that there is a relationship between the incumbent and the governm...
SEACOM on CNN
The SEACOM cable system went live and the news was picked up by CNN. Congrats to SEACOM and more importantly CNN for noticing something of real value. It is also important to note the positive impact on East African countries and how that impact is ident...
Owning Fiber + Peering = Lower Costs
Do not take it from me... take it from the way Google operates their business. They are the model for the proper architecture all-around. Build and operate your own network accordingly and you too can realize lower operating costs and higher margins. Rea...
10+ Terabits On Tap For Africa
As a follow on to my last post I found a great map of Undersea Cables being planned/engineered/built for Africa. This map and the individual cable descriptions with their specific sizes and investors is very telling. It says amongst other things that: 1....
Eyes on Africa
For those that lack the vision and, or comprehension of why new fiber builds are needed not just in the US, but globally here are two recent pieces of news that should help make things clear. There are two more new subsea cables being built in Afric...
NTT to buy PC-1 Trans Pacific Cable
In recent news it was announced that NTT will purchase Pacific Crossing. Aside from the history of PC-1 this is a very interesting development. It seems that NTT needs the high capacity system for its own internal needs. In other words, the capacity will...
Hunter Newby is the CEO of Allied Fiber, a next-generation, nationwide wireless tower and dark fiber provider. He is a 12-year veteran of the telecom networking industry and has built a depth of creative and management experience and expertise in multiple disciplines within the field ranging from sales, marketing and technical aspects to network engineering and raising capital. 
