The London Internet Exchange (LINX) and Iron Mountain Data Centers, a division of Iron Mountain Incorporated, announced that LINX NoVA will be installing a switch into the VA-1 Iron Mountain Data Center facility in Northern Virginia, making the facility a full LINX interconnection location.
Colt DCS announces the launch of its Inzai Three Inzai campus, which already houses two other hyperscale facilities.
On behalf of its client Boskalis, subsea technology company Seatools completed the development, manufacturing and testing of a plough position monitoring buoy.
Teraco Data Environments (Pty) Ltd., Africa’s largest interconnection hub and vendor-neutral data centre provider, announced that construction has commenced on a new hyperscale data centre with 38 megawatts (MW) of critical power load in Ekurhuleni, east of Johannesburg, South Africa.
At the AfricaTech Festival international trade fair, Orange and its subsidiaries announced the commissioning and commercial launch of Djoliba, the first pan-African backbone.
An Interview with Andy Bax, COO of Seaborn Networks
Editor’s Note: Seaborn Networks and Infinera recently announced the launch of new network services on capacity acquired by Seaborn on America Movil’s AMX-1 submarine network segment connecting the US and Brazil. The new connection complements Seaborn’s Seabras-1 cable that has served the US-Brazil route since 2017.
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has been notified that the parties behind the Hong Hong-Guam (HKG) submarine fiber optic cable are withdrawing their application for a landing license.
A new access point for the Tasman Global Access (TGA) submarine cable network marks the first direct connection between Sydney and Hamilton, offering additional resilience to New Zealand’s already strong telco infrastructure and increasing the amount of capacity available to be used on the cable.
Telecom Egypt announces the signing of a strategic partnership with AMS-IX to build an internet exchange in Cairo inside its largest Certified Tier III international data center facility within the Smart Village in west Cairo.
On 8 November 2020, Nexans’ next-generation cable laying vessel, the Nexans Aurora was launched at Ulstein Verft.
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