London
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euNetworks has formed what it calls an exclusive partnership on the CrossChannel Fibre to deliver ultra-low latency services between London and Madrid.
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Colt has started work on its latest hyperscale data centre in west London, a 57MW pair of buildings in Hayes.
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Vantage Data Centers has entered the London market with the development of a 48MW £500 million campus.
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EE has teamed with BAI Communications 4G mobile coverage to a new wave of London Underground stations.
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Equinix is expanding two of its international business exchange sites in London and opened a new data centre in Manchester.
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More than half of colocation revenues come from the four so-called “Flap” cities, with Equinix and Digital Realty leading the race.
Forthcoming events
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UK fibre company Hyperoptic is to upgrade its IP core network for increased power efficiency and capacity.
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Three UK has partnered with connectivity infrastructure provider Freshwave on the operator’s first deployments of the 4G in-building mobile specification.
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Vodafone and Virgin Media O2 have joined BAI Communications' (BAI) 4G and 5G-ready mobile network across London's underground tube network.
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Interxion has announced it is extending its London Metro Connect solution, allowing customers to connect to 12 London data centres and six campuses across Greater London.
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UK tower company Cornerstone is partnering with Freshwave, owned by DigitalBridge, to build a small-cell network in London’s financial centre.
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Trials of a "world first commercial quantum secured metro network" launched in London yesterday, which uses quantum key distribution (QKD) to help secure the transmission of data and information between multiple physical locations.
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Telehouse has officially opened the first phase of its fifth data centre at its London Docklands campus, the carrier-neutral Telehouse South.
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NTT Ltd’s Global Data Centers division is expanding its east London data centre in Dagenham, following lasts year’s expansion of Hemel Hempstead.
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Kao Data has boosted its west London portfolio with the addition of a 16MW, NVIDIA DGX-Ready and OCP-Ready™ facility at its Slough campus.
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Veon is moving its group parent company from Bermuda to London, saying it wants to be in “a jurisdiction with high standards of corporate governance”.
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BT Wholesale is to provide the data centre needs for BAI Communications’ contract to put 4G and 5G mobile communications on the London Underground.
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UK carrier Neos Networks is expanding its wholesale fibre network in Liverpool, Birmingham, Manchester and London, and has signed a deal with the local authority that covers Oxford.
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Europe's major data centre markets are on track to reach a total supply milestone of 2.6GW, double the capacity recorded in 2017.
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Many companies have gone into what Equinix calls “digital overdrive”, moving four times faster than pre-pandemic levels.
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Irish-owned Echelon Data Centres is developing its second UK facility,LCY20, in Chesham, Buckinghamshire, UK.
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Community Fibre has made its first move outside London by taking a majority stake in Box Broadband, operating in Surrey and West Sussex, to the south-west of the UK capital.
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Eight London data centres owned by Interxion have been connected to form what the company bills as the capital's “largest and most highly connected data hub”.
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Cloud networking firm Extreme Networks has added a new regional data centre (RDC) in London, enabling customers to run its native cloud management platform ExtremeCloud IQ on Microsoft Azure.
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Canadian-owned company BAI Communications is to build a wholesale 4G and 5G network to cover London Underground’s stations.
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Ontix, tipped as one of the next companies to be acquired by the new Digital 9 Infrastructure company, is to build a fast Wifi network in central London.
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African carrier Liquid Telecom has become Liquid Intelligent Technologies to show that it is now a one-stop-shop technology group.
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Virtual network operator Lycamobile says it is offering UK customers free data to support their children learning from home.
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Linx, the London Internet Exchange, says traffic on its main platform has gone up by 40% in the year of Covid-19.
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Cordiant Digital Infrastructure is targeting a raise of £300 million as it lists on the specialist fund segment of the main market of the London Stock Exchange.
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There will be more consolidation in the data centre and telecoms markets in 2021, say two forecasters.
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London wholesale fibre company G.Network has raised over £1 billion in equity and loans to expand its network.
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SSE Enterprise Telecoms is executing an expansion programme that will see it delivery 100Gbps and 10Gbps services to businesses across the UK.
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Warburg Pincus’s £400 million investment in a London-based fibre company should be complete by the end of August.
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New owner of a London-based alternative fibre company backed by Deutsche Telekom has recruited Olaf Swantee, former CEO of Orange, EE and then Sunrise, as its executive chairman.
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The Mayor of London Sadiq Khan has launched a £10 million investment fund to upgrade large parts of London from copper cable to full fibre using the Tube transport network.
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Equinix’s latest Global Interconnection Index (GXI) predicts private connectivity at the edge will grow by 51% CAGR and exceed a total bandwidth capacity of more than 13,300Tbps, equivalent to 53ZB of data exchanged annually.
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Equinix has launched its hyperscale joint venture, in partnership with Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund GIC, which will develop and operate xScale data centres in Europe.
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UK-based Kao Data has promoted COO Paul Finch to be interim CEO, replacing Jan Daan Luycks, who is returning home to the Netherlands after three years.
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Digital Realty has officially opened Cloud House, the latest facility in its Digital Docklands campus of highly-connected data centres in London's Docklands area.
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NTT Ltd has chosen London as its headquarters due to the city's "global" status in the centre of the EMEA region and a "limited" impact by Brexit, one of its 19 new global leadership executives has revealed.
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NTT has unified 28 international subsidiaries including Dimension Data and NTT Com into a single identity as from today.