Built Once, Rediscovered Every Time
Why accurate infrastructure records influence operational confidence, capacity planning, and the long-term cost of managing data center environments. A data center operator preparing for a new customer deployment needs to answer a seemingly straightforward question: How much infrastructure capacity is actually available? The answer may begin with fiber assignment records,…
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Before the First Crew Arrives
Why early infrastructure decisions influence construction costs, project execution, and future expansion in data center environments. Some of the most consequential decisions in a data center infrastructure project happen before the first construction crew arrives. Between design approval and mobilization, project teams have an opportunity to evaluate site conditions, confirm…
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Where Execution Breaks Down
Why the timing of an unresolved issue can matter as much as the issue itself. A data center infrastructure project can meet its construction milestones while the risk to its next deployment milestone continues to grow. Installation progresses. Fiber is spliced and tested. Individual scopes move toward completion. Yet a…
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What a Passing Test Proves
Why understanding test results matters before infrastructure can be accepted and put into service. A fiber link passes its loss test. The result meets the specified criteria, the report is generated, and the project moves closer to acceptance. But a passing result can still leave questions that affect what happens…
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Who Owns the Space Between Scopes?
The infrastructure path is continuous. Accountability often isn't. In the first installment of our Data Center Services series, we followed the infrastructure path toward the data center and looked at why contractual boundaries don't change how the complete environment ultimately has to perform. That leads to another question: Everyone owns…
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The Data Center Environment Doesn’t Start at the Building
Why data center readiness depends on the infrastructure path long before it reaches the facility. A data center project can begin hundreds of miles before the property line. The route may move through fiber builds or ILAs before reaching a campus. From there, infrastructure continues through the site, into the…
Read MoreSQUAN Announces Data Center Practice to Bring Greater Accountability to Data Center Connectivity
One service line gives hyperscalers, colocation providers, and enterprises clearer accountability across data center connectivity, from outside plant through rack-level readiness. CARLSTADT, N.J., August 26, 2026 – SQUAN, an industry leader specializing in telecommunications services for network infrastructure, today announced the launch of its data center practice that positions them…
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SQUAN Strengthens Data Center Services Leadership with Jaideep Kataria
With more than 30 years of telecommunications and hyperscale infrastructure experience, Jaideep Kataria will help SQUAN build on its established fiber and infrastructure capabilities to address emerging needs across the data center ecosystem. Hyperscale data center growth is accelerating the demand for the infrastructure required to support it. More facilities…
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BEAD Didn’t Just Change Broadband Funding, it Changed Broadband Execution.
For the better part of two years, the broadband industry has been consumed by a single question: how much funding would arrive, and how fast. That question has been answered. The Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment program has moved billions of dollars into state programs, and the debate over whether…
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