#florida

For those of us still in South Florida, hurricane season is here ! The Forecasters are predicting some big storms this fall with a couple of potential direct monster hits to Florida east coast. How many days will Boca be closed with the storms and it makes no sense to have a critical facility for disaster recovery in hurricane alley. Can’t get everything moved to the cloud fast enough before the layoffs storms hit.

It's been a a month or so since last update. I would say not heavy travel, but all on just one jet. The prior weekly DC trips seem to have stopped.

N73M:

• A short loop flight (test?) in New England based out of Springfield, MA

Hasn't flown since Sept 8th.

N83M:

• Day trip to Ft. Lauderdale, FL
• Overnight to Costa Rica
• Overnight in Atlanta then day trip to Ft. Lauderdale.
• Day trip to Las Vegas
• Overnight trip to Austin
• 2-night trip to Chicago

N93M:

• No flights since last update. Still on ground in St. Paul.

Note: When the jets get sold and have new tail numbers I won't immediately know it. It is much like a car getting a new license plate when it is sold.

This week, Syniverse has internally announced laying off 15 % of its

employees, worldwide. That means 300 employees are affected. The

layoffs mainly happen in the US (Tampa, Florida) and India,

although other locations are affected, as well.

In related news, just a few months ago, Syniverse internally

announced to close down its mobile roaming data clearing house (DCH)

development center in Rüsselsheim, Germany until the end of 2018.

This amounts to laying off another ~ 65 employees.

This follows the previous layoff of ~ 40 Syniverse operations

engineers in 2016, also in Rüsselsheim, the 2017 shutdown of the

Syniverse A2P office in Würzburg, Germany (~ 60 employees), and

the constant layoffs in other Syniverse offices around the world

Syniverse is well known for since it's owned by the Carlyle Group

(a private equity corporation).

As always, Syniverse management plans to off-shore the work done

by the laid off engineers to remote locations like India and

Costa Rica. It's confident that this disruptive reorganization

doesn't impact the service-level agreements with existing

customers and magically leads to a path of ultra growth and rapid

innovation (executed by newly hired and inexperienced engineers).

Giving the history and current developments, it's likely that

Syniverse will also shutdown its last remaining office in

Germany, Bonn in the next 1 to 2 years. Followed by Europe

Headquarters in Luxembourg in 2 to 3 years.

TriQuint Semiconductor is a high tech semiconductor company that designs, produces and distributes high-performance RF modules, components as well as foundry services. The company mostly works with the semiconductor gallium arsenide (AKA GaAs), and is the #3 worldwide leader in GaAs devices and the #1 worldwide commercial GaAs foundry. Triquint was established in 1985 in Beaverton, OR. Today (2010) it's main office is located in Hillsboro, Oregon, with other locations in San Jose (CA), Chelmsford (MA), Boulder (CO), Richardson (TX), High Point (NC), Apopka (FL), Munich (GERMANY), Heredia (COSTA RICA)and several other smaller location internationally.