Diana Goovaerts

Exec Editor, Cloud, Data Center and AI @FierceNetwork_ - email me at [email protected]!

[Diana Goovaerts @DiaMariesbeat]

📢 The 4.8 #earthquake in New Jersey isn’t the only seismic event happening in the world today. A hearty welcome to the brand-new @FierceNetwork_ . The comms industry is changing and so are we.📢
@LizBitCoyne explains.

Soft launch today, full Monday.

🔗https://t.co/Wz1SpxJC0g🔗

[Diana Goovaerts @DiaMariesbeat]

EXCLUSIVE: Alianza is buying Metaswitch from Microsoft for an undisclosed sum. Here's what CEO Brian Beutler told us about the deal. $MSFT

https://t.co/uSwbgEKQP5

[Diana Goovaerts @DiaMariesbeat]

@ericmzeman

[Charlotte Clymer 🇺🇦 @cmclymer]

Y’all, it’s 8:30 ET. It’s ridiculously early. Take a breath, don’t overanalyze every little data point, and have patience. Don’t waste emotional energy on data that doesn’t deserve it.

[Diana Goovaerts @DiaMariesbeat]

Wishing all the reporters covering elections tonight the very best pizza your locality has. With you in spirit ❤️

[Diana Goovaerts @DiaMariesbeat]

Here are the Board of Elections sites for some key swing states.

North Carolina - https://t.co/71X8tZkriC

Georgia - https://t.co/yhwZVyPRQo

Pennsylvania - https://t.co/z16BujSxNp

Be sure to look at how many precincts are reporting. #election2024

[Diana Goovaerts @DiaMariesbeat]

For anyone who wants to see the #election results as they come in, check out your local Board of Elections website. Here’s Virginia’s

https://t.co/fMqj9EwnN0

[Power & Communication Contractors Association @PCCA_tweets]

While the slow rollout of the BEAD program continues to play havoc PCCA members' business plans, states are reporting that the dragged-out process is also hampering their #workforcedevelopment efforts. @DiaMariesbeat reports for @FierceNetwork_.

https://t.co/k4tRfqqoMp

[Diana Goovaerts @DiaMariesbeat]

Arbuckle notes that Build America, Buy America (BABA) rules only cover BEAD projects while the monetary awards are live. So, that means these rules WON'T apply decades down the line when network upgrades are needed. #BBNE2024

[Diana Goovaerts @DiaMariesbeat]

NTIA's William Arbuckle is on stage giving an update on the state of the BEAD program. Money for tribal, middle mile and device programs has already been distributed. He turns to a baseball analogy: These are like the lead up batter and batter number two. BEAD is the closer.

[Diana Goovaerts @DiaMariesbeat]

Arbuckle adds he believes the first states will start construction "next year." 8 states already running subgrantee selection process. It'll be these states at the tip of the spear that will be starting construction next year. #BBNE2024

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

The difference between a cat 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 hurricane

[Noah Bergren @NbergWX]

8PM EDT: This is nothing short of astronomical. I am at a loss for words to meteorologically describe you the storms small eye and intensity. 897mb pressure with 180 MPH max sustained winds and gusts 200+ MPH. This is now the 4th strongest hurricane ever recorded by pressure on this side of the world. The eye is TINY at nearly 3.8 miles wide. This hurricane is nearing the mathematical limit of what Earth's atmosphere over this ocean water can produce.

[AAPB (American Association for Public Broadband) @AAPBroadband]

“What is broadband without affordability?”

Well, let our Executive Director, Gigi Sohn, tell you in the latest episode of @DiaMariesbeat’s podcast, The Five Nine, brought to you by @FierceNetwork_:

https://t.co/0mAyK8yyFH

[Pew States @PewStates]

“We know fundamentally that affordability is a barrier to people having internet subscriptions at their home.”

Our Jake Varn talks with @FierceNetwork_ @DiaMariesbeat about broadband affordability, the loss of #ACP, and what comes next. https://t.co/Am8DDHSmqJ

[Diana Goovaerts @DiaMariesbeat]

Bye, @verizonfios. It’s not even the fourth outage that’s making me leave. It’s your atrocious website that is telling me there’s no outage (there is, for the whole neighborhood) and that makes it almost impossible to get help. I’m done. Let’s see if @CoxComm can do better.

[Jack Gold @jckgld]

What happens to #AI factories when AI moves to the #edge? https://t.co/SN15nDqeYo @DiaMariesbeat @jckgld @FierceNetwork_

[Diana Goovaerts @DiaMariesbeat]

Wow. 5th a circuit throws a HUGE wrench in USF. FCC Chair Rosenworcel calls the decision “misguided and wrong.”

https://t.co/Zakkbw9fjr

[Diana Goovaerts @DiaMariesbeat]

Lawyers are gearing up to kick cloud cybersecurity company @CrowdStrike while it’s down, soliciting claims from investors angry about the impact last week’s outage had on their stock in the company.

https://t.co/rgXRxJOudH

[Anshel Sag @anshelsag]

For those who don't remember, in 2010, McAfee had a colossal glitch with Windows XP that took down a good part of the internet. The man who was McAfee's CTO at that time is now the CEO of Crowdstrike. The McAfee incident cost the company so much they ended up selling to Intel.

[George Kurtz @George_Kurtz]

As CrowdStrike continues to work with customers and partners to resolve this incident, our team has written a technical overview of today’s events. We will continue to update our findings as the investigation progresses. https://t.co/xIDlV7yKVh