Wednesday Bytes: Verizon, GlobalNet, Conterra, Cologix, Ericsson

Some federal dollars, a couple new locations, some managed services, and a new partnership:

Verizon Business has won a key federal contract renewal. The Department of Homeland security has awarded them another 10-year contract worth as much as $176M. For that price Verizon Business will supply both GETS (Government Emergency Telecommunications Service) and WPS (Wireless Priority Service), ensuring that the agency has the connectivity it needs at crunch time. They’ve held this contract since 1993, though of course the agency names have changed a lot in the last 31 years.

GlobalNet’s DATAIX is expanding its footprint southward with a new PoP in France. They have launched a new location at Digital Realty’s MRS3 facility in Marseille. Marseille is of course one of Europe’s key infrastructure nodes, with access to landing stations for cables reaching to the rest of the Mediterranean and on to the Middle East, Africa, and all of east Asia. Globalnet is looking to turbo charge its overall expansion, and DATAIX’s move is just one step along that path.

Conterra Networks is adding a new managed capability to its portfolio. They have tapped Fortinet for the capabilities needed in order to launch a new Managed LAN service. They hope to better serve business customers with not just bandwidth but security and performance. Conterra’s footprint touches 22 states, but with most of their infrastructure in North Carolina, Texas, and Louisiana.

Cologix is collaborating with Consensus Core as the two target the AI marketplace. Consensus Core will be using Cologix’s MTL10 facility in Montreal as its Canadian hub as it launches GPU-as-a-Service in Canada. That capability will make it easier to run and managed AI workloads in Canada on the right kind of infrastructure. Cologix’s MTL10 has some 180,000 square feet of total space and is one of the larger of the company’s 12 facilities in the city.

And a new collaboration between Ericsson, NRTC, Southern Linc, and Anterix is taking aim at the REC opportunity. The strategic partnership will take aim at delivering connectivity solutions for rural electric cooperatives around the US for the wireless infrastructure necessary to support RECs with private networks as they build out the next generation of the grid we all depend on.

 

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