Tuesday Roundup: RETN, Nokia, DE-CIX, Nscale

A few items from around the world:

RETN says that half its traffic is now being carried over ZR/ZR+ coherent pluggable infrastructure. They started rolling out IPoDWDM last year on parts of their longhaul network, and that project has transitioned into production-scale usage. RETN says the shift is reducing network complexity, improving energy efficiency, and generally streamlining its infrastructure.

Nokia says that Orange Belgium has tapped their technology for a nationwide network upgrade. Orange Belgium will be deploying a new converged optical transport network in response to demand from AI-driven services, and will leverage Nokia’s 1830 PSS and network automation capabilities. The multi-year project will consolidate both fixed and mobile transport architecture.

DE-CIX has partnered with OpenX down in Brazil. OpenX, which operates interconnection infrastructure connecting some 100 networks and 6-8m end users, is joining DE-CIX’s R-cubed partner program. DE-CIX will gain deeper access into Brazil, while OpenX will gain access to a global interconnection ecosystem. DE-CIX Brazil has nodes in both São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro.

And Nscale has raised $900M as it preps a global data center expansion. The cmmpany currently operates facilities in Norway, the UK, and the US with partner facilities in Iceland and Portugal as well. The new revolving credit facility comes after a $2B Series C funding round a few months ago, and will help the company expand not just in the US and Europe but into APAC.

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