Monday Bytes: Pulsant, Nokia, Colt, DE-CIX

Four interesting items from around the world to start June with:

Some data center infrastructure has changing hands over in the UK. Pulsant has completed a deal to acquire two facilities from SCC, boosting its edge footprint. The two facilities are the Cole Valley data center in Birmingham and the Fareham data center in, well, Fareham. Each has some 25,000 square feet of white space and they total about 5MW of power capacity.

Nokia has won a significant network upgrade deal in the Middle East. Vodafone Qatar has selected the vendor to help modernize its infrastructure, specifically its packet core and supporting software. Vodafone Qatar has some 2.1M mobile customers. The deal expands upon an existing relationship.

Meanwhile, Nokia also showed up in a new collaboration with Honeywell and Colt. The three companies are working on quantum-safe networking using satellite communications. They are hoping to test out ways of protecting encrypted traffic travelling on optical networks once today’s encryption technology becomes vulnerable to quantum computing and such. Currently technologies like Quantum Key Distribution have a range of just 100km, but with the help of LEO satellites and subsea cables they hope to extend that a bunch.

And DE-CIX now has a new Chief Financial Officer. Felix Hintze has been named to the position, taking over from Sebastian Siefert with the rest of top leadership being confirmed in their positions including CEO Ivo Ivanov. The transition happened over the weekend.

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