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Infosys has launched a new innovation centre in London aimed at helping clients harness emerging technologies, along with an AI lab in partnership with the University of Cambridge to drive education and research collaboration. -
The winners of the 20th annual Global Connectivity Awards (GCAs) were revealed at a glitzy show in London following Capacity Europe 2024, with stc, Mobily, and Sparkle among those taking home awards.
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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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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.
