The expert has a decade of technology sourcing experience. The executive has been responsible for sourcing telecom infrastructure at global telecommunications companies and is currently in charge of network acquisition at one of the hyperscalers.
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We can’t get enough, and it’s frustrating. It really is, nationally, a duopoly between Lumen and Zayo. We work with other providers and more regional folks, depending on if you're in the Northeast versus mid-Atlantic, LA, or San Francisco, and we try to spread it around. But nationally, there are only two providers. Some of these projects, like Verizon, don't even want to look at a dark fiber construction project, and we've gone to them. Some large traditional telcos don’t even want to play the game, so we’re kind of forced to go with specific providers.
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It would be advantageous to us, as is. We would want to understand Cogent’s plans about, let's call it, the owed infrastructure. We're familiar with Cogent and the current network, the lease network you could call it. It's interesting to us. It would be a third – a distant third – player at first. I'm curious about how Cogent plans to build it out, and when they plan to build it out. It's interesting because it opens up another diverse option for us.
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Yes, to both. If new routes come online or new capacity becomes available next year, we will look at that right away. To give you other examples, I'm looking at additional routes between Dallas and Des Moines going up the country, which just came in a couple of weeks ago. I'm looking at additional routes that we need fairly quickly in San Francisco, just metro. So, we try to plan and be smart and do all the textbook things we’re supposed to do to plan for the growth of our network, but stuff pops up all the time. There is additional capacity needed. We would do lit waves because there's no time to build or acquire the dark fiber we need, but when trying to be smart, we prefer the dark fiber route. So stuff comes up all the time. To piggyback on that, my group is still hiring; we're seeing engineers and technical folks to help with the workload. We do not see the slowdown that maybe some others are seeing.
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The expert has a decade of technology sourcing experience. The executive has been responsible for sourcing telecom infrastructure at global telecommunications companies and is currently in charge of network acquisition at one of the hyperscalers.
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