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A joint venture between investment firm Harrison Street and AREP’s PowerHouse Data Centers has sold ABX-1, a 265,580-square-foot data centre in Ashburn, Virginia.
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Verizon and Geotab have been hit with a lawsuit alleging the pair infringed patented antenna technologies developed by Fractus.
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Elon Musk’s OpenAI rival xAI is set to further expand its Colossus supercomputer facility, with an announcement from the Greater Memphis Chamber claiming the site will scale to a whopping one million GPUs.
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Telxius has teamed up with Orange, and Setar to create a new high-capacity subsea cable in the Caribbean.
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Applied Digital, a digital infrastructure solutions provider, has closed $150 million in secured debt financing with Macquarie Equipment Capital.
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Frontier Communications has expanded the role of Mike Shippey and has appointed him to the company’s executive committee.
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MobiledgeX 3.0 has gone live with new features including improved insights and cloudlet management for operators.
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Moving onto the subsea part of the Where are they now series is EllaLink and its 2020 win for Subsea Project of the Year.
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Lightpath, the NY metro-based fibre provider, has left its home state to launch operations in Boston (pictured).
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Caban Systems (Caban), a provider of software-enabled energy storage and management systems for the telecoms industry, has secured investment from Ember Infrastructure (Ember).
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People around the world have come to rely on internet connectivity for so many aspects of their work and personal lives.
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Nominations for the Global Carrier Awards are now open.
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Season 2, episode 20 is presented by deputy editor Melanie Mingas, and features editor-at-large Alan Burkitt-Gray, senior reporter Natalie Bannerman, and special guest Tiago Rodrigues, CEO, Wireless Broadband Alliance.
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DataBank has expanded its Pittsburgh data centre, PIT2, by 25,000 sq ft and 2.5MW of power.
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WBA OpenRoaming™ Release 2 is now live, allowing network and service providers, including MNOs, Cable Operators and ISPs to monetise new opportunities and offer an enhanced quality of experience (QoE) to their subscribers.
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Sinch has partnered with Jazz to ensure messages received by Jazz subscribers are safer, more secure, free of spam and only sent to the intended recipient.
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Colocation company EdgeMicro is to ally itself with Laser Light Communications, a project to connect hyperscale data centres with a software-defined mixture of fibre and laser-based satellites.
