Tuesday Roundup: Archtop, Brightspeed, APFN, DE-CIX

Several bits of last mile news, a data center project, and some IX growth:

Archtop Fiber has picked up a bit of local government business in Orange County, New York. Their subsidiary WVT Fiber has picked up deals for internet and VoIP to the Town of Warwick and the Warwick Police Department. WVT has built out some 375 miles of fiber in the region. Archtop bought the company a couple years ago from Momentum Telecom, and has since been investing in its transformation from a legacy RLEC to a modern FTTx provider.

Brightspeed’s expansion updates have reached my home turf in New Jersey. They are 85% complete with fiber expansion projects in the state, with 78K homes and businesses connected and another 14.3K planned. They are done in six Hunterdon County municipalities, with work still underway in 17 other markets.

Over in the UK there was a bit of consolidation in the last mile. Onestream will be buying AllPoints Fibre Network’s retail Cuckoo customer base. APFN will refocus its efforts on its wholesale Aquila platform, and those retail customers will still be on that platform. But the Cuckoo brand and domain will transfer over to Onestream.

Prime Data Centers has broken ground on a second data center in Sacramento, California. SMF02 will be a 150,000-square-foot facility offering 18MW of critical IT load capacity and will be on the same campus as SMF01. Prime is looking to meet demand from AI and other new technologies. Some 250 construction jobs will be created initially, with 30 or so permanent positions expected once it is all done.

And DE-CIX gave us a view into the company’s progress with its 2025 annual report. Annual revenues rose 3.3% to €70.9M while their global footprint expanded by 10% with deployoments in Brazil, Mexico, Qatar, and Texas. DE-CIX Frankfurt now has more than 18Tbps peak traffic, while the company saw significant traffic growth in markets like Mumbai, Dubai, Dallas, Chicago, and Istanbul.

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