In this episode of the Digital Digest, we roundup the biggest stories of the week from the world's longest – and newest – subsea cables, to a live report from Datacloud UK&I.

Natalie explains the tech and strategy driving the 2Africa cable, which is now on track to become the world's longest, while here in the UK, Alan shares his story of the Crosslake Fibre deployment from Brighton this week.

Alan also covers the news that Microsoft is set to dominate the enterprise voice market - and make good on its Skype acquisition - following announcements this week from AT&T, NTT, Colt and Liquid.

And, live from central London, Saf brings us the latest from Datacloud UK & Ireland – on-site at a real conference!

Joining the conversation this week, we hear from Jerry Gerami, VP of wholesale solutions at AT&T. Jerry talks fibre, satellites and rural openRAN.

Season 3, episode 5 is presented by editor Melanie Mingas, and features editor-at-large Alan Burkitt-Gray, deputy editor Natalie Bannerman and reporter Saf Malik

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