Tag: Avelacom

October 22, 2020

Some low latency news and some remote connectivity solutions for workers and for students: Avelacom has added another US/Asia low latency link to its network. Yesterday the financial services networking specialist launched a new Chicago-Tokyo back-up route. It’s geographically diverse […]

August 12, 2020

Here are a few midweek quick takes to keep an eye on, two contracts, two international expansions, and some new managed services. Comcast Business has won a deal over in the Texas healthcare vertical. Memorial Hermann Health System is leveraging […]

June 19, 2020

One of the more interesting announcements this week that I don’t quite know what to make up comes from way up in orbit. Commstar Space Communications has announced plans to deploy a data relay satellite between the Earth and the […]

April 23, 2020

Ciena’s Blue Planet is contributing some new code to the Linux Foundation’s Open Networking Automation Platform Policy Framework. The additional functionality is aimed at giving service providers who use ONAP more flexibility in administering intent-based policies. In parallel, they are […]

March 5, 2020

Avelacom has added a new PoP in Ashburn, offering direct connectivity to Amazon AWS’s US-East-1 region. The expansion gives them 65.3ms round-trip latency between AWS Ashburn and AWS Dublin, which apparently is a key cryptocurrency arbitrage route. Avelacom has made […]

November 26, 2019

Avelacom has found some new exchanges to hook up to its ultra low latency network. They have launched a multi-cloud solution enabling traders to connect up to cryptocurrency exchanges hosted within the big public clouds (Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, Amazon […]

May 30, 2019

Frontier is selling its businesses in the Pacific Northwest and northern Rockies. The incumbent operator has entered into an agreement to sell its assets and operations in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and Montana to WaveDivision Capital and Searchlight Capital Partners. The […]

February 26, 2019

Northern Virginia now has more conduit available to it. Dark Fiber & Infrastructure announced yesterday that it has completed a new 22-conduit loop through Ashburn’s ‘Data Center Alley’. The route uses VDOT rights-of-way to provide new options for pulling fiber […]

November 29, 2018

Equinix always has at least a few buildouts and expansions on the menu, and today they announced another up in Scandinavia. The data center giant is building a new IBX in Helsinki, Finland. HE7 will cost some $20M and open […]

October 23, 2018

Zayo has added an unnamed ‘major retailer’ to its customer list. They supplanted the incumbent provider with a 10G and 100G wavelength solution powering both the company’s physical stores and online presence. The retailer will be able to better leverage […]