Thursday Roundup: Brightspeed, Vero Fiber, Vantage, Megaport, Dartpoints, Zayo

News from around the US to catch up with:

Brightspeed has made an inorganic move out in Ohio to complement all the organic expansion projects they are working on. They have acquired 235 miles of dark fiber in suburban Cincinnati from Cincinnati Communications LLC. The assets are in Butler and Hamilton counties and are adjacent to territory they are already in. They bring another 69.5K locations within the company’s network reach.

Vero Fiber is preparing to launch FTTH services in the northern California town of Arcata. Arcata sits just north of the city of Eureka, where Vero Fiber is already connecting homes and businesses. Construction started in May, and the first customers should be activated later this summer.

Vantage Data Centers is taking aim at the growing data center market in Reno, Nevada. The data center provider is investing $3B to build out a new campus in Storey County on 137 acres. At full buildout the NV1 campus will include 4 multi-story facilities totaling more than 1M square feet of space with 224MW of high density capacity. If all goes well, the first building will be ready in Q2 of next year.

Dartpoints has teamed up with Megaport in a new strategic partnership. Megaport will be deploying a node of its NaaS platform in DartPoints’ facility in Greenville, South Carolina. Tenants there will then be able to establish private virtual cross-connects to the major cloud providers, reducing latency and bandwidth expenses. It’s Megaport’s first entry into the state.

And Zayo offered an update on its infrastructure projects so far this year. They now have 400G across their full North American core network. They have broken ground on three new dark fiber routes: Chicago-Columbus, Chicago-Minneapolis, and Phoenix-Tucson. The projects will add some 1,030 route miles of new fiber while adding key AI-optimized paths in response to demand.

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