BT and Verizon are combining their international business services units, enabling their parent companies to focus on their domestic markets. Meanwhile, VIAVI targets Ultra Ethernet opportunities and Cogent sells a group of its Sprint Wireline data centers. Sean Buckley, Editor in Chief of Lightwave, breaks it down in this week's Friday Five video. 

In this new Broadband Pulse podcast, we talked with Mark Colwell, director of broadband operations at Mission Telecom, about how its new offering will make schools' and libraries' budgets whole after the E-Rate cuts.