Metro Bytes: Gigabit Fiber, Duos, Cogeco, Citynet, RtBrick

Four interesting items of regional interest, two domestic and two international:

Gigabit Fiber has a new majority owner. Blue Owl Capital has made a majority investment in the Dallas-based fiber infrastructure provider, which has about 500 rout miles of conduit and high-count fiber connecting 50 data centers around Texas. It’s Blue Owl’s third such fiber investment, alongside DF&I in the northern Virginia market and South Reach Networks in Miami. I doubt they are done.

Duos Edge AI’s expansion in Texas is gaining steam. Yesterday the division of Duos Technologies opened its fifth Edge Data Center, going online in the town of Dumas in the Texas panhandle. The deployment is part of a partnership with the Dumas Independent School District. Duos Edge AI plans to have 15 such modular EDCs deployed nationally by the end of the year.

Up in Canada, Cogeco is expanding its last mile reach in Quebec. They are planning to launch service in Québec City, Châteauguay, Cap-de-la-Madeleine, Saint-Louis-de-France and Sainte-Marthe-du-Cap. Cogeco also operates the oxio brand as well as Breezeline in the US.

And the Austrian ISP Citynet has tapped RtBrick to help roll out 10Gbps broadband. Citynet is the IT brand for Hall AG, which is the central municipal services provider for the city of Hall in Tirol. That’s up in the Austrian Alps just east of Innsbruck. They’ll be leveraging RtBrick’s disaggregated routing software on open switches from UfiSpace.

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