backbone
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MTN GlobalConnect has acquired MTN Business Kenya, allowing it to expand its digital wholesale and infrastructure services into the Kenyan market.
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Services provider GlobalNet has unveiled its newly built backbone running Stockholm-Copenhagen-Hamburg-Amsterdam-Frankfurt-Stockholm.
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AtlasEdge has become the first international data-centre player to invest in the northern English city of Leeds, after it acquired Cornelius House for an undisclosed sum.
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Nokia has been selected by Wind Tre in Italy to deploy a new, high performance optical backbone.
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Israeli telco Bezeq has selected Ribbon Communications (Ribbon) to build its new flexgrid 400G optical backbone network.
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XL Axiata is using VIAVI's ONMSi Optical Network Management System to increase visibility into its fibre network.
Forthcoming events
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Ekinops has been awarded a contract to upgrade IKOULA's backbone network between data centres.
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Mega-project HyperOne has received registrations of interest from more than 500 businesses across Australia as it prepares to start construction by the end of this year.
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HyperOne is preparing to tender the design, construction and operation work for Australia's first hyperscale national fibre backbone.
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Sparkle, the first international service provider in Italy and among the top ten global operators, has launched a managed cyber security training platform to protect businesses against cyber attacks.
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Sofia, Bulgaria – 21st April 2021: Neterra, the independent global leaders in layer 1, 2 and 3 connectivity solutions, DDoS protection, and data centre & network services, has today launched its expanded Dedicated Internet Access service - a fully-committed and naturally more secure form of global connectivity to more than 180 countries.
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Bevan Slattery’s HyperOne is billed as the first true private national fibre backbone project to connect Australia. Introducing Project HAM
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Cinia has selected Ribbon Communications’ Apollo OTN Transport and Switching platforms to upgrade its backbone transport network in Finland and Northern Europe.
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How is Orange revolutionising connectivity in Western Africa with Djoliba? Watch our On-Demand webinars to find out how the new network is reshaping connectivity in the region.
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Tejas Networks has been contracted by C3ntro Telecom to upgrade its high-speed backbone and broadband network.
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Bluebird Network is initiating one of the single largest fibre build-outs and densification projects in Columbia's history, by strengthening its fibre backbone.
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Connectivity across the LATAM region requires investment and collaboration in order to meet future needs.
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Seaborn Networks has chosen the JaxNAP to host its endpoint for the AMX-1 subsea cable connecting Florida and Brazil.
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Crosslake Fibre has completed the first new fibre-optic cable constructed between Toronto and New York in almost two decades.
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QTS Realty Trust (QTS) has announced that Telia Carrier has upgraded its network presence in QTS' Atlanta Metro mega data centre.
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Hurricane Electric has deployed a new point of presence (PoP) in NEXTDC’s S1 Sydney data centre, which will provide businesses and other organisations with global high-speed connectivity that meet their technology needs.
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Telia Carrier has announced that it will be implementing resource public key infrastructure (RPKI) technology to its global network.
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Epsilon has partnered with ORIS Telekom to deploy its Infiny software-defined networking (SDN) platform in Turkey.
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Telefónica International Wholesale Services (TIWS) has announced a series of actions to boost its digital leadership across the wholesale sector whilst simultaneously evolving its core traditional services and responding to new market trends.
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Sri Lanka Telecom (SLT) has launched the Xyntac brand in order to better position itself in the market as a true global carrier.
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Zayo Group has announced that it is expanding fibre networks in the central Florida cities of Tampa and Orlando by more than 2,300 route miles.
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HGC Global Communications Limited (HGC) has announced the IPX peering arrangement with Telia Carrier, a Sweden-based telecommunication operator that owns and operates one of the most extensive fibre backbones in the world.
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Sparkle, the first international service provider in Italy and a global operator, has announced the construction of Nibble, its new ultra-long-haul photonic backbone which will digitally connect Sicily with the major points of presence (PoPs) and data centres in Europe.
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Limelight Networks has opened its 100th point of presence (PoP) as its global CDN capacity increases by 40% to 42Tbps.
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Tata Communications Transformation Services (TCTS), the telecommunications development subsidiary of Tata Communications, is partnering with research group Africa Development Solutions (ADS) to build a fibre infrastructure across Africa.
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Hurricane Electric has established points of presence (PoP) at LDeX's carrier-neutral London (LDeX1) and Manchester (LDeX2) data centres.
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euNetworks, a Western European bandwidth infrastructure player, has acquired 100% of the shares of Onstage Online GmbH, a fibre company headquartered in Vienna, Austria.
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CEB FiberNet steps up wholesale game after awarding a contract to ECI to design and deploy an enhanced fibre-optic backbone network in Mauritius.
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Toyota Tsusho and NEC have signed a contract with Uzbek state-owned communication carrier, Uzbektelecom, to expand and improve its nationwide network infrastructure.
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SKYBAND has picked LeoSat Enterprises to upgrade its existing satellite solutions and gain access to a unique low-latency network, which the company says will “revolutionise data connectivity”.
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Avelacom has selected Interxion, a European provider of carrier and cloud-neutral colocation data centre services, as its data centre partner of choice in its move into the Irish market.
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EdgeConneX has signed a deal to extend Hurricane Electric’s IP network connectivity across 10 of its markets in its North American footprint.
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AeroNet has launched a 100% fibre-optic-based business connectivity service, named AeroFiber.
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Seattle-based Sabey Data Centers has commenced construction at its flagship SDC5 facility to add 1,500kW of power available to its powered shell and turn-key colocation tenants at the property.
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Puerto Rico’s AeroNet has upgraded its fibre backbone network to 100Gbps and established a new IP node in Equinix’s NAP of The Americas facility in Miami.
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Flexential has completed a major expansion to its FlexAnywhere network fabric with new point of presence (PoP) deployments and carrier capabilities.