Vodafone Qatar has announced that, in collaboration with Nokia, it has powered Msheireb Smart City with cutting-edge fibre technology that delivers hyper speeds of up to 25 Gbps and will extend the collaboration to demonstrate speeds of up to 100 Gbps, using a Nokia Bell Labs prototype in the near future. With the roll-out of […]

Siemon, announced its new ultra-low-loss singlemode MTP cabling system exhibits considerable margin over IEEE 400 Gigabit channel limits as proven through third-party testing. Intertek Testing Services, a global leader in the testing, inspection, and certification of products, tested Siemon’s new singlemode ultra-low-loss MTP cabling system in IEEE 802.3bs 400GBASE-DR4 and IEEE 802.3cu 400GBASE-FR4 400 Gigabit […]

TOWARDEX, a Boston-based network provider specializing in data center interconnections, high-bandwidth fiber optic communications and operator of the Massachusetts Internet Exchange(MASS IX) has announced a new partnership with Evocative, a global provider of Internet infrastructure. Through this collaboration, Evocative BOS1 clients in Boston benefit from the addition of TOWARDEX as a new carrier at the […]

Zayo Group Holdings, a leading global communications infrastructure provider, has announced the fastest direct network route connecting Manchester to New York with its new transatlantic route. The route provides a direct subsea cable route to North America that avoids backhauling to global Internet hubs in London and Paris, reducing transatlantic latency and enabling a better […]

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 […]