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. -
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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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.
