News of Note—Vonage, Barracuda Networks, Boston’s smart city ranking and more

> Vonage named Ken McMahon in the newly created position of SVP of Client Operations. Release

> Societe Publique Locale (SPL) Bourgogne Franche-Comte Numerique (SPL BFC Digital), a local public company tasked with the construction of fiber networks in five French departments, has signed a 15-year lease agreement with Orange. TeleGeography article

> Barracuda Networks, a provider of cloud-enabled security and data protection solutions, today announced the availability of Barracuda Security Insight. Release

> A global webscale cloud provider has selected Zayo for wavelength connectivity between a major West Coast data center and another facility located centrally in the U.S. Release

> Boston has been ranked one of the as the top smart cities in the U.S. ZDNet article