Friday Bytes: FirstLight, Cologix, KIO, Lonestar, GTT

News from the fiber, colo, and international networking segments to close out the week:

FirstLight’s southern expansion in Pennsylvania has won the favor of an unnamed ‘major hyperscaler’. The northeastern infrastructure operator has delivered a 280-route-mile network connecting strategic sites around eastern Pennsylvania. FiberLight’s network in the state now spans 3,200 route miles and touches 50 counties.

Cologix has made an inorganic move up in Toronto, Canada. They have acquired full ownership of TOR4 in Markham from CIM Group, with whom they had developed the site in a JV. They have also acquired TOR5 from CIM Group, a data center at 105 Clegg Road. Together the two facilities offer 90K square feet and 14MW of capacity. Cologix’s Canadian footprint now spans 22 facilities and more than a million square feet of space.

KIO Data Centers is teaming up with Lonestar Data Holdings to extend its influence up into orbit. Lonestar specializes in space-based data storage, while KIO offers terrestrial data centers in Mexico and Ltin America. The two hope to build a new kind of data storage ecosystem, which leverages solar energy and cooling vacuum of space to complement traditional storage facilities.

And GTT has picked up a global enterprise client. The European equipment rental company LOXAM will be leveraging GTT’s infrastructure and security to secure some 115 sites in Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Ireland, Luxemburg, the Netherlands and Switzerland. GTT will provide managed SD-WAN, SASE, DIA, and wireless connectivity.

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