DCD Magazine #62 - The coming wave
Will compute at sea sink or swim?
News - Networking, Will Calvert, DatacenterDynamics
The latest news from the AI, data center, telco, chip, and cloud sector
DCD Magazine #62 out now
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Zayo shareholders agree to $8.2 billion acquisition by Digital Colony, EQT
The deal is expected to close in the first half of 2020
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GTT to acquire Dutch telco KPN for €50 million in cash
Increasing the company's IP network in Europe and adding long-haul fiber routes and metro rings in Frankfurt, London, Amsterdam and Paris
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Aqua Comms pitches Blackpool, UK landing station for US-Northern Europe submarine cable
As well as building a 3.2 million square foot data center development site
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Vacant houses in Iowa to be turned into two data centers
Once the houses are demolished the site will be sold for just $1
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Alaska to get its first terrestrial fiber link to the contiguous US
The state's connection to the rest of the US is currently via subsea cables and satellites
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Facebook reportedly plans African submarine cable
It's called Simba, go figure
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AWS and Bulk Infrastructure enter into US-Norway submarine cable deal
Havfrue is the first submarine cable to directly connect the two nations
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DE-CIX becomes first Internet exchange to offer 400 Gigabit Ethernet
400 Gigabit Ethernet is currently available at DE-CIX's Frankfurt data center and will be rolled out to other locations soon
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Cumulus' Linux OS first to support Facebook's modular Minipack
The Linux based OS will be available pre-installed on Facebook's network hardware
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Dell wins $231 million US Navy IT Contract
Dell will help the US Navy move its IT systems to the cloud as well as providing data center services
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Facebook is laying 275 miles of fiber across West Virginia
The company's cable will connect major data centers along a 600 mile route
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Cologix acquires Metro Optic
The deal will give Cologix access to submarine cables in Montreal, as well as a hyperscale data center in Ontario
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Huawei is reportedly planning its first data center in Latin America
An anonymous source has disclosed details of a potential facility in Chile
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Google selects Equinix for submarine cable landing station in LA
Google's Curie cable will connect the US to Chile later this year