Int’l Bytes: TurkNet, Sparkle, CityFibre, Macquarie

Three network expansion projects and a cloud services deal from four continents:

In Türkiye we have a new strategic fiber partnership in place between SOCAR Fiber and TurkNet. SOCAR Fiber operates an express route along the TANAP natural gas pipeline all the way from the country’s eastern border with Georgia to the western border with Greece. That infrastructure will be integrated into TurkNet’s national backbone, passing cities such as Bursa, Eskisehir, Ankara, Sivas, Erzurum, and Kars and adding connectivity options into neighboring countries and regions.

Sparkle has expanded its reach in North America out on the west coast. They have deployed a new point of presence in San Diego, further strengthening their infrastructure along the border with Mexico. The new PoP will be within MDC’s San Diego facility, expanding on a relationship with the data center operator alongside similar deployments in McAllen and El Paso in Texas..

CityFibre’s FTTx rollout in Buckinghamshire is officially connecting customers now. The Project Gigabit effort, which is backed by £58m in government funding, will bring big bandwidth to 34K homes across Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire, and East Berkshire. CityFibre’s target nationwide is some 8M premises.

Macquarie Cloud Services has won a significant deal in the Australian financial sector. CareSuper has appointed the cloud specialist to lead a transformation program that will shift away from VMware Cloud on AWS and onto a Managed Edge Azure Local offering. CareSuper has 573K members and $57B under management, and is looking to optimize its IT architecture into a unified, secure, and scalable platform.

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Categories: Cloud Computing · Fiber Networks · FTTH · Internet Backbones