Wednesday Bytes: Toptana, MOX, Lumen, Zayo, GNM, NetIX

Three bits of subsea related network news, plus one on land:

Toptana Technologies, along with MOX Networks and Assured Communications, are ready to build their new backhaul route up in the Pacific Northwest. They hope to establish a dedicated fiber path from Toptana’s new cable landing station in Ocean Shores WA with the key data center clusters in Hillsboro OR and Seattle WA. It’s the next phase a long term project, following up on the construction of a new diverse north/south route between Seattle and Hillsboro.

Lumen says it will be providing backhaul for the JUNO Trans-Pacific Cable in the US. They will provide the fiber necessary to connect the cable landing station at Grover Beach CA to both San Jose and Los Angeles. JUNO just went live over the weekend, connecting California with both Tokyo and Osaka in Japan, landing at both Minami-boso and Shima, with 20 fiber pairs stretching 10,000km and delivering some 350Tbps of capacity.

Zayo Europe is partnering up with GNM. They are providing a 100G wavelength to the infrastructure provider in a new collaboration. The link was provisioned in less than 5 working days and connects Marseille to Amsterdam. The two companies seem to be looking forward to a complementary relationship, pairing Zayo’s depth in western Europe with GNM’s reach to the north and east.

And NetIX is increasing its capacity to South America. They are taking on another 100Gbps link on the EllaLink subsea cable, which connects Portugal with Brazil. The route bypasses the traditional transatlantic pathways and avoids North America entirely. NetIX is part of Neterra, which is based out of Bulgaria in eastern Europe, both of which have been steadily ramping up a global network presence.

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