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The latest news from the data center, telco, and cloud sector
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Galapagos Islands to get 20Tbps subsea fiber connection
Tortoises and Iguanas to enjoy 10X increase in Internet bandwidth from 2022
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Connectivity Solutions claims densest data center fiber
96 duplex ports in a rack unit is good, but check out the competition
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Google Cloud us-east1 data centers disrupted due to "physical damage to multiple fiber bundles"
Connection to the Berkeley County campus is slowed, but the region is not down
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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 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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Integra launches free network failure cost estimator
How many trucks does it take to fix a network?
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Logix Fiber Networks buys fiber assets worth $10m, swaps others with FiberLight
In Dallas, San Antonio and Austin
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SEA-ME-WE 3 cable cut again
Won’t be fixed until at least 9 January
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Zayo to acquire Spread Networks for $127 million
Getting its hands on a low latency fiber route connecting New York and Chicago
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CommScope to acquire rapid delivery specialist Cable Exchange
And its two giant warehouses full of cables
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Fatbeam gains carrier access to OneNeck Oregon data center
The facility will be the company’s second foothold in the state
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Investment firm EQT Infrastructure pays $950m for Lumos Networks
Gets 9,000 miles of fiber and seven colocation data centers in the US
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Kao Data secures £33m to fund data center campus near London
Ambitious infrastructure project receives financial backing
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Sumitomo Electric debuts 3456 fiber ribbon cables
Always make sure to get plenty of fiber
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AEConnect trans Atlantic cable plugs into Telehouse London
Fast connections and the promise of a new North Two data center seal the deal
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GTT partners with Gulf Bridge to improve connectivity in the Middle East
The company launches new Points of Presence in its quest to connect “any location in the world”
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Ashburn gets fiber ring
USA Fiber completes network for America’s biggest data center zone
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Prysmian takes fiber density to new heights Down Under
The company claims a world record by packing 2,112 fibers into a 24mm cable
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R&M launches highest density cable management system
Netscale by name, netscale by nature
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White Space 32: The Open Compute special
A very practical look at the progress made by the OCP movement
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Padtec to lay Google's Junior fiber from Rio to Santos
Google picks local contractor for submarine fiber link between Brazilian cities
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Siemon buys Gigacom's fibre system
The US company has bought all assets and customer base of the British Gigaduct range
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Macom claims a first for its 100Gbps silicon photonics chip
An L-PIC readies itself for the hyperscale data center market
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Emerson modules land Hibernia Express transatlantic cable
Emerson Network power modular landing stations connect submarine fiber highway
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Zayo gets European fiber, facilities with the acquisition of Viatel
Once valued at $1.2 billion, the Viatel brand is sold for €95 million
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euNetworks acquires Ireland's Inland Fibre Telecom
Integration of the network is already complete
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Cologix upgrades Jacksonville data centers expecting business surge
New undersea cables will draw customers to the region