Metro Bytes: IQ Fiber, Vero Fiber,Arvig, DE-CIX

Four bits of metro and last mile news from around the US:

IQ Fiber is taking aim at some new territory down in Florida. They have launched service in Pinellas County, initially targeting the cities of St. Petersburg, Clearwater, and Largo. The buildout of a modern XGS-PON platform across the region and will take 18-24 months and will take some $100M. IQ Fiber expects to create 50+ permanent jobs over that time.

Vero Fiber says it is done with its FTTH buildout in Anson, Texas. Their infrastructure now reaches 1,900 homes and businesses in the city, which sits about a half hour north of Abilene in the central part of the state. Anchor institutions and businesses connected include Anson Volunteer Fire Department, J Co Roots, Anson Hardware, First Baptist Church Anson, ABC Storage, and the Anson EMS Barn. The project took 8 months.

Arvig has announced plans to extend its last mile to 446 structures in rural counties in the western and southern parts of Minnesota. They have been awarded $3.4M in grants from the state’s Broadband Line Extension program for the project, to which Arvig will add $442K of its own funding. The buildout will add 104.3 new route miles of fiber infrastructure in 8 counties.

And DE-CIX has completed an upgraded in New York City metro area. They have rolled out a quad-node architecture across NYC and northern NJ, with 2 core nodes on each side of the Hudson. They have also expanded metro access, readed everything for 400GE, and implemented ROADM-based smart switching technology. DE-CIX New York now has 260 connected networks.

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