One data center campus, one new subsea cable, one new terrestrial route, and several upgrades:
EXA Infrastructure has turned up a new fiber route in the southeastern USA. Leveraging Ciena’s gear they have lit fiber between Ashburn, Virginia and Atlanta, Georgia, taking a diverse route along the foothills of the Appalachians. Meanwhile, EXA did some balance sheet work as well, refinancing some debt while raising €1.3b in new financing to support network expansion and potential M&A.
The Mediterranean officially has a new regional subsea fiber system. Unitirreno, Alcatel Submarine Networks, and Elettra say that the 1156km Unitirreno system connecting the Italian markets of Genoa, Roam, Sardinia, and Sicily is now ready for service. The cable has 24 fiber pairs north-south and 4 fiber pairs east-west, and offers sub-9ms latency from Sicily to northern Europe.
Vantage Data Centers is investing in some more Italian data center infrastructure. They will be adding a second campus in the northern hub of Milan, specifically in Castelletto. The plans call for two facilities totaling 10,000 square meters of space and 32MW of critical IT capacity, with phase one landing next spring. The project will cost €350 million or so when complete.
FLAG has tapped Ciena to upgrade its subsea cable infrastructure. They have deployed Ciena’s WL6e technology on two segments of the company’s India Connectivity Mesh, specifically between Chennai and Singapore and between Mumbai and Singapore. The upgrade improves spectral efficiency and reduces space and power while enabling 400GbE now and 800GbE soon.
And Telstra International has also boosted its subsea optical infrastructure. They have deployed both Ciena’s WL6e and Nokia’s ICE7 technologies to add 30% in network capacity across key Asia Pacific routes. The move enables them to offer 400G services across diverse routes, with a roadmap to 800G.
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