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“Our belief is that as people, places and objects become increasingly more interconnected, the importance of data infrastructure assets will rise. We expect this rapid growth to persist for the foreseeable future, driven by a number of factors including greater smartphone penetration, increasing data consumption, advent of 5G networks and other new and evolving uses such as Internet of Things, AI and other applications that depend on low latency.”
—Sam Pollock, CEO, Brookfield Infrastructure
“Digital Infrastructure sits at the intersection of numerous disruptive trends, from increasing connectivity through the growth of 5G and the internet of things, to the rise of big data and artificial intelligence, and the transition to software delivered seamlessly through the cloud. We believe that such infrastructure is therefore essential to 21st Century grwoth and can play a mutli-faceted role in investors’ portfolios that could offer income and growth characteristics. ”
—Pedro Palandrani, Research Analyst, Global X Data Center REIT & Digital Infrastructure ETF
“The opportunity at the edge is exactly like the cloud. It’s sort of a new cloud in the making if you think about it. The cloud created an immense amount of opportunity, but it was all about remote computing, taking things to the cloud and it gets computed somewhere. The edge is literally closer to home. We now have a much better way to create, deliver and consume services from the edge. We look at the edge as a massive growth opportunity for VMware and our partners as customers start to build and consume more and more applications and data that will all be delivered from the edge.”
—Shekar Ayyar, Executive Vice President and General Manager for VMware’s Telco and Edge Cloud
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Vertical Bridge Completes Strategic Combination with Eco-Site
Source: Vertical Bridge Combined company now has over 20,000 owned and master-leased towers, including over 1,600 recently built towers; Eco-Site Executives Join Leadership Team at Vertical Bridge BOCA RATON, FLA. (PRWEB) NOVEMBER 23, 2020 Vertical...
Digital Colony Leads $1.2 Billion Investment in Vantage Data Centers
Source: LA Business Journal Digital Colony Management, an investment firm established by downtown-based Colony Capital Inc. and digital infrastructure investor and operator Digital Bridge Holdings, has led a $1.25 billion investment in Denver-based...
Strategic Wireless Acquires Tower Portfolios in Louisiana and Wisconsin
Source: InsideTowers.com Strategic Wireless Infrastructure Funds Management, LLC announced yesterday that through its affiliate, SWI Funds Tower Holdings, LLC, it has completed the acquisition of two separate portfolios consisting of cell towers,...
Alaska Communications to Be Acquired, Go Private for $300M in Cash
Source: Inside Towers Investment firms Macquarie Capital and GCM Grosvenor will acquire Alaska Communications Systems Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: ALSK) for $300 million in cash. The transaction will take Alaska Communications private. The...
American Tower Enters Canadian Market With $3.5B Buy of InSite Wireless
Source: Inside Towers American Tower Corporation (NYSE: AMT) today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire InSite Wireless Group, LLC, which owns, operates and manages approximately 3,000 communications sites, primarily...
Race Communications Announces New Partnership with Oak Hill Capital
Source: PRNewswire SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO and MENLO PARK, Calif., Nov. 4, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Race Communications ("Race"), a fiber-to-the-premises operator serving homes, small businesses and large enterprises across the state...
Stonepeak Announces Agreement to Acquire Astound Broadband from TPG for $8.1 Billion
Source: BusinessWire Represents the largest private equity acquisition in the U.S. in 2020 and the largest cable transaction in the past five years Stonepeak Infrastructure Partners (Stonepeak), a private equity firm specializing in...
Introducing the Global X Data Center REITs & Digital Infrastructure ETF (VPN)
Source: GlobalXETFs On October 29th, 2020, we introduced the Global X Data Center REITs & Digital Infrastructure ETF (VPN) on Nasdaq. VPN seeks to invest in companies that operate data center REITs and other digital infrastructure...
UBS Asset Management Makes Strategic Minority Investment in Tillman Infrastructure to Accelerate U.S. Tower Rollout
Source: BusinessWire Funds managed by UBS Asset Management (UBS-AM) on behalf of a large US pension plan have made a strategic minority investment in Tillman Infrastructure (Tillman), a leading developer and owner of telecommunication tower...
DartPoints Acquires Metro Data Centers
Source: BusinessWire DartPoints, an owner and operator of edge colocation data centers, announces its acquisition of Metro Data Centers (MDC), a full-service provider of interconnection and data center solutions in Dublin, OH serving the Central...
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The Remote Work Reality is Driving New Opportunities for 5G, Edge and IoT
Source: TheFastMode.com By: Jeff Sharp As Coronavirus has forced social distancing to take over most of our lives, companies have been relying on and enforcing remote working policies. This has led many employees to master the art of video-conferencing, adopt new file...
Moody’s: Coronavirus is accelerating shift to online education
Source: EducationDive At least 1,400 colleges moved to mostly online or hybrid instruction this fall as confirmed coronavirus cases spiked in the U.S, according to data kept by the College Crisis Initiative at Davidson College. The pandemic accelerated...
The Coming Age of Digital Reality
Source: Axios The next decade of technological advances — in virtual reality and AI — is poised to move more of human life into the digital realm. The big picture: Moments of great upheaval are often followed by major technological and social innovations....
Data Centres: Enablers of the Digital Economy
Author: Derek Webster Source: Techerati Data centres are critical utilities, the almost invisible heart, lungs and nerve cells of the digital revolution, facilitating increasing general economic activity for the good of citizens – nationally and...
Pandemic reveals opportunities for 5G connectivity
SOURCE: MIT Technology Review June 30, 2020 Demand for the wireless technology’s speed and power has reached astronomic heights—while supply remains conspicuously low. The coronavirus health crisis may have changed that. 5G cellular technology, which has been promised...
Trump Team Weighs $1 Trillion for Infrastructure to Spur Economy
SOURCE: Yahoo Finance The Trump administration is preparing a nearly $1 trillion infrastructure proposal as part of its push to spur the world’s largest economy back to life, according to people familiar with the plan. A preliminary version being prepared by the...