Tag: ciena

October 12, 2023

A few interesting items from EMEA and beyond: Salute Mission Critical has made another inorganic move over in Europe. The data center services provider has bought OBMG Ltd, a specialist in commissioning and QA/QC based in Athlone, Ireland. The deal […]

September 14, 2023

Sabey Data Centers is partnering up with JetCool Technologies to work on advanced cooling solutions. JetCool specializes in liquid cooling solutions that target chip hotspots with precise microjets. The idea is to keep things cool enough to support higher computing […]

August 17, 2023

A bunch of interesting infrastructure news items from EMEA: Nokia and the Nomios Group say they will be upgrading the GÉANT European research network. In a 10 year agreement that puts Nokia behind their IP infrastructure, the upgrade will see […]

May 25, 2023

A subsea deployment, two data center buildouts, and some Ethernet for AI: Ciena’s WaveLogic 5 Extreme technology will be getting a workout under the North Atlantic. Farice is using Ciena’s submarine network solution to power its newly launched IRIS cable […]

May 22, 2023

Four interesting international items from four separate continents: Telstra Wholesale has launched 400G on intercapital routes in Australia. They are leveraging Ciena’s 6500 Packet-Optical platform to upgrade their wavelength services. The deployment covers routes between Adelaide, Melbourne, Canberra, Sydney and […]

April 19, 2023

A fiber network expansion and three vendor portfolio expansions: Ritter Communications has found another target market for its metro fiber network expansion. They have moved into Dyersburg TN, a city about an hour north by northwest along the Mississippi from […]

February 14, 2023

Two FTTH projects, a middle mile upgrade, and some managed security: Empire Access says it is taking its FTTH buildout to Vestal NY. They plan to bring fiber access to 2K homes and businesses in the city, a town of […]

January 25, 2023

Ciena has made a bunch of executive promotions this week. Joe Cumello will now be SVP and GM of Blue Planet, while Rebecca Smith will take over his previous role as SVP Global Marketing & Communications for Ciena asa whole. […]

December 19, 2022

From around the world this morning and late last week: a couple of interesting executive moves over in Europe, a rebranding, a new data center campus, and a network upgrade project. euNetworks is moving to further flesh out its new […]

September 28, 2022

CoreSite is a bit bigger now down in Florida. The subsidiary of American Tower has acquired a 103,000 square foot facility at 2100 NW 84th Ave in Doral, Florida, which lies just west of Miami International Airport. CoreSite will be […]

April 13, 2022

Ciena has picked up a customer for its Waveserver Ai platform over in Europe. The hosting and cloud solutions provider team.blue Denmark will be using Ciena’s platform to power its metro DCI network needs. The upgrade enables team.blue Denmark to […]

February 15, 2022

Several new technology deployments and collaborations plus one interesting inorganic investment: Windstream Wholesale is expanding its fiber footprint to a new endpoint. They will be connecting their Intelligent Converged Optical Network to the AUBix LLC data center, which sits adjacent […]

January 14, 2022

Two network upgrades, some SD-WAN, a new subsea cable project, and a data center campus: Ciena won two global network upgrade projects this weeks that are worth noting. GBI is using the company’s technology to increase the design capacity of […]

April 21, 2021

One data center M&A, one build-to-suit, a network upgrade, a technology partnership, and a global enterprise win: Serverfarm has made an inorganic move out in southern California. With some help from NantWorks, they have acquired a 117,500 square foot facility […]

February 2, 2021

Comcast Business is taking its fiber Ethernet deeper into Tuscaloosa, Alabama. The fiber arm of the cable giant has completed a significant upgrade to its infrastructure across the city, bringing 10Tbps dedicated connectivity and Ethernet private line services to the […]

January 28, 2021

Telia Carrier has deployed a new PoP on the eastern end of the MAREA submarine cable. They have launched a presence at Telxius’s Derio Communications Hub outside of Bilbao, Spain. The facility combines the functionality of a cable landing station […]

January 20, 2021

EdgeConneX’s foray into Chile down in South America is going well enough to justify a new data center. The edge colocation provider has lined up Oracle Cloud as an anchor customer for SCL02, a new data center to be built […]

November 18, 2020

Expansions, upgrades, and deployments by international network operators across multiple continents to keep an eye on: Telia Carrier’s ongoing US network expansion has taken it to the Silicon Prairie. Yesterday the international network operator added a new DWDM route between […]

November 5, 2020

The US may still be holding its breath, but the rest of the world is at least still going through the motions. Here are two vendor wins, one NNI, and a traffic milestone: Ciena has picked up some subsea business […]

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 […]