Wednesday Bytes: Ezee, EllaLink, 365DC, Megaport, PacketLight, NEC, Nokia

News from around the industry and the world to catch up on as July winds down:

Ezee Fiber is expanding its efforts out in greater Chicagoland. The company will be investing $400M in fiber-to-the-home across Illinois’ DuPage, Cook, Lake, Kane, and Will Counties. Construction will begin in Q4. Ezee has projects underway in Houston where they acquired Tachus Fiber Internet as well as the states of New Mexico and Washington.

EllaLink will be extending its subsea infrastructure into the country of Mauritania. They have signed a contract with MTNMA of the Islamic Republic of Mauritania to build a cable landing station and a 500km branch into the company’s existing cable system betwen South America and Europe. The new link, which will be ready in early 2027, will provide an initial 200Gbps low latency circuit between Nouadhibou and Madrid.

365 Data Centers and Megaport are expanding their partnership. Megaport has added PoPs at 365DC’s locations in Alpharetta GA, Aurora O, Boca Raton FL, Bridgewater NJ, Carlstadt NJ, and Spring Garden PA. From there they will be able to enable connectivity to major cloud destinations within each facility’s ecosystem.

PacketLight Networks and NEC have been working together on quantum key distribution. The two have demonstrated QKD over a 400G DWDM network at NEC’s lab in Japan. The trial uses NEC’s QKD system and PacketLight’s PL-4000M 600G Muxponder, with the QKD transmission carried over a separate dedicated fiber in parallel to the DWDM link. The demo achieved 100% throughput and consistently low latency.

And Nokia announced a deal supporting another subsea cable system. The Indonesian provider Surge has deployed their gear on a link between Jakarta and Singapore. Nokia’s 1830 PSS will enable a 20.8Tbps link in support of both FTTx to 40M households and the ability to deliver 800GE to enterprise customers. Yesterday Nokia announced a deal to support the Medusa cable system.

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