Tuesday Roundup: Midco, Switch, Segra, Orange, Digital Realty

Two bits of domestic infrastructure news, and two more from across the Atlantic:

In a bit more news from up on the northern Tier, the regional fiber provider Midco has announced a 400G deal with the data center developer and operator Switch. The deal covers some 500 individual 400Gbps circuits on two diverse routes between the infrastructure being built in Ellendale, North Dakota and the key hub of Chicago. Midco’s regional network touches Kansas, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota and Wisconsin.

Segra has added some new longhaul infrastructure in the Carolinas. They have delivered a new 600G route between the landing station at Myrtle Beach back to the hubs of Charlotte and Raleigh. The route takes a “direct inland path” offering diversity from other options and connects back up to Segra’s regional depth on the eastern seaboard. From the Myrtle Beach CLS one can interface with subsea cables to both Europe and South America.

A new major subsea cable project may be underway between Europe and Africa. A consortium including Canalink, GUILAB, International Mauritania Telecom, Orange Group, Orange Côte d’Ivoire, Sonatel, Silverlinks have signed an MoU to build Via Africa. In Europe, they plan landing stations in Portugal, France, and the UK. In Africa the cable will go along the Atlantic coast to connect Canary Islands, Mauritania, Senegal, Guinea, Côte d’Ivoire and Nigeria with extensions further south.

And Digital Realty is officially in business in the Spanish city of Barcelona. They have officially opened BCN1, which is located in the Sant Adrià de Besòs innovation area. BCN1 has 14MW of total planned capacity, and joins the rest of the company’s Iberian facilities in Madrid and Lisbon with connectivity over to Marseille as well.

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