Unlabelled cables, ports, servers, routers and racks can make even the most professional system administrators lose heart. Many labels commonly used in data centres become detached and fall to the ground, deteriorated by server-generated heat. Brady’s range of reliable identification and RFID solutions are dedicated to solving data centre labelling issues. Brady labels are designed […]
As Barcelona becomes an increasingly strategic hub for the terrestrial and subsea cable networks connecting our digital lives, Equinix, a digital infrastructure company, is building its second data centre in the metro. The new site will serve as a strategic connection point for data communications between Europe, Africa and the Middle East, with Barcelona quickly […]
French Polynesian telecom operator ONATi, a subsidiary of the OPT French Polynesia Group, has selected Intelia and Ciena to increase the capacity of the Honotua international submarine cable to 300Gb/s. The last stage of operations sees the cable upgraded using Ciena’s Geomesh Solution – powered by the 6500 Packet-Optical Platform and WaveLogic Ai technology – providing 300Gb/s of information-carrying capacity […]
Modern data centers and today’s underlying network infrastructure will continue to evolve to meet the requirements of leading technologies. As organizations look at ways to cut costs, reduce their environmental impact and converge traditionally disparate operational and IT systems, data centers are chasing to keep pace with assurance of deployment stability and uptime expected. We […]
Southern Cross Cables Limited (‘Southern Cross’), Australasia’s specialist international capacity provider, has announced the availability of commercial 400GbE services on its Southern Cross NEXT (‘NEXT’) cable, between Australia, New Zealand and the US. Laurie Miller, CEO of Southern Cross, said the introduction of what is believed to be Australasia’s first international 400GbE services and the […]
Global Cloud Xchange (GCX), a network service provider powering global connectivity for new media providers, telecom carriers and enterprises, and Tampnet Carrier, a unique high-speed network operator in the Nordic sector responsible for over 30% of the traffic between Norway, the UK and Europe, announce their strategic partnership to support the increased network demands stemming […]
A new agreement between Bandwidth Infrastructure Group (Bandwidth IG), one of the fastest-growing pure-play dark fibre providers, and Flexential, a leading provider of data centre colocation, cloud and connectivity, will deliver more access to in-demand dark fibre routes in the emerging data centre hub of Hillsboro, Oregon. Bandwidth IG is expanding its Hillsboro area dark […]
Farice, a company fully owned by the Icelandic government, currently owns and operates two submarine cables linking Iceland to Northern Europe, has announced that the IRIS Sub-Sea Telecoms Cable System connecting Galway to Iceland and onwards to Denmark and the Nordics, on existing Farice networks is now in its final phase of implementation. In 2019, […]
Teraco, one of Africa’s largest providers of interconnected data centre platforms, is now an integral connectivity and interconnection point for Google’s Equiano subsea cable. Equiano starts in Europe and runs along the West Coast of Africa, between Lisbon in Portugal and Cape Town in South Africa, with branching units along the way that can be […]
