Akerman's Telecommunications, Fiber, and Wireless Facilities Infrastructure Team is comprised of attorneys with decades of experience advising clients on telecommunications infrastructure and network services transactions across the world. We counsel clients on dark fiber, wavelength circuit, and subsea cable system builds, leases and purchases, distributed antennae system, and WiFi deployments, and on the provision and procurement of additional network services, to include colocation, tower leases, ethernet, MPLS, private line, dedicated internet access, internet exchange and peering, DDoS mitigation, VOIP, e911, caching node, content delivery network services, and others. Our attorneys have represented international carriers, hyperscale cloud platform providers, Fortune 100 telecommunications providers, global financial services institutions, subsea cable system operators, equipment vendors, investors, lenders, landlords, and countless enterprise customers. We have also worked as in-house attorneys for leading, global carriers such as Sprint and Tata Communications International, as well as on a dedicated basis as outside counsel for other leading carriers.
Our decades of experience enable us to efficiently service clients' needs through the drafting of form master services agreements and schedules, negotiation of vendor master services agreements, and creation of playbooks and other guidance. We pride ourselves on our ability to work closely with and to understand the requirements of our clients' network engineering and technology teams, especially in crafting market-based or customized SLA solutions. We have drafted and negotiated dozens (if not hundreds) of carrier master services agreements, service schedules, and SLAs relating to the provision of telecommunications and cloud-based services worldwide.
Software-Defined Networking
As artificial intelligence and software-defined networking power and improve the delivery of network services, Akerman attorneys rely upon their experience in advising clients on all aspects cloud and software license and development transactions, in addition to their telecommunications transactions experiences. We understand the legal and regulatory nuances that apply with respect to software and data services, to include varying provisions relating to data privacy, indemnification, limitation of liability, warranty, service levels, maintenance obligations, and other matters.
