Thursday Roundup: NEC, Altibox, CloudKleyer, Ciena, 1Finity

Three vendor announcements, some subsea connectivity, and a data center migration project:

NEC will be helping modernize the optical backbone of Eletronet. The Brazilian provider will be adding 8,000km of new fiber routes during 2026, and will be leveraging gear from Nokia to make it happen. Along the way they’ll be adding some 85 new data centers and enabling speeds up to 1.2Tbps per optical channel. NEC will lead the project as the system integrator.

Altibox Carrier and DataVita are teaming up to bridge the gap between Norway and Scotland. The NO-UK subsea cable system have been connected directly into DataVita’s data centers in the coridor between Glasgow and Edinburgh. The NO-UK cable was built 5 years ago, spanning 700km from Stavanger to Newcastle.

CloudKleyer has completed a data center-to-data center migration project. They physically relocated a customer’s server equipment from Stockholm and London over to Frankfurt am Main. The project involved live production systems, maintaining uninterrupted service operation.

Ciena has unveiled a new high density, low power pluggable CPO technology. The Vesta 200 6.4T CPX solution uses a single wavelength for 200G per lane switches, XPUs, and NICs, reducing power consumption up to 70%. Ciena is hoping to remove barriers to co-packaged optics adoption.

And Fujitsu’s 1Finity division has launched its next generation optical line system. The L100/L2000 OLS platform will target AI, guaranteeing reliable 800G+ speeds and lowering total cost of operation. It boasts a flexible, compact, modular architecture scalling from 1-16 degrees across C+L bands.

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Categories: Datacenter · Fiber Networks · Telecom Equipment · Undersea cables