Sparkle Selects Djibouti Data Center as Its IP Hub in Africa Sparkle Press Release July 12, 2019 First Tier 3 carrier-neutral data center, Djibouti will allow Sparkle to deliver high performance IP and capacity services in East and South Africa Rome - Sparkle, the first international service provider in Italy and among the top ten [...]
PCCW Global, Global Switch Launch Console Connect PoP at Tai Seng Data Center By Telecompaper July 5, 2019 PCCW Global, the international operating division of Hong Kong operator HKT, and Global Switch, an owner, operator and developer of carrier and cloud neutral data centers in Europe and Asia-Pacific, have announced the launch of a Console [...]
STT GDC Acquires Remaining Data Centre Stake From Tata in Singapore By James Henderson, Channel Asia June 24, 2019 ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (STT GDC) has acquired the remaining 26 per cent stake of Tata Communications in STT Tai Seng, comprising of three colocation facilities in Singapore. The agreement comes two years after STT [...]
Aqua Comms Pitches Blackpool, UK Landing Station for US-Northern Europe Submarine Cable By Will Calvert, Data Centre Dynamics June 18, 2019 A submarine cable could link Blackpool, UK to the US and Northern Europe. The CeltixConnect-2 cable, which is being built by submarine cable provider and operator Aqua Comms, could have a landing point in [...]
Angola Cables Data Center in Brazil Is Now Live By Abigail Opiah, Data-Economy April 17, 2019 The Angola Cables data center will cater for the growing demand in content data transmission in the Southern hemisphere. Telecommunications company Angola Cables has announced the opening of its carrier-neutral data center, Angonap Fortaleza in Fortaleza, Brazil. The completed [...]
Liquid Telecom Plans $400m Network Infrastructure, Data Center Investment in Egypt By Tanwen Dawn-Hiscox December 10, 2018 Over the next three years. Continuing its partnership with Telecom Egypt, Liquid Telecom is planning to spend $400m on building out its network infrastructure and data centers across Egypt. A subsidiary of major telecommunications provider Econet, Liquid Telecom [...]
Equinix Announces Build of New Data Center in Helsinki Equinix Press Release November 29, 2018 REDWOOD CITY, Calif. and HELSINKI -- Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), the global interconnection and data center company, today announced it will build a new International Business Exchange™ (IBX®) data center in Helsinki, Finland. The data center – called HE7 – will [...]
Submarine Telecoms Forum Magazine Issue 103 - Data Centers and New Technology Is Now Live! SubTel Forum Press Release November 19, 2018 SubTel Forum is pleased to announce that Issue 103 of the Magazine is now available! In this issue we discuss the changing dynamics in the submarine fiber industry brought about by the influence [...]
Digital Realty Opens Fifth Data Centre in Australia and Acquires Land Parcel in Sydney for Further Expansion Digital Realty Press Release November 14, 2018 Significant demand drives growth of the Digital Realty Connected Campus in Australia SYDNEY, Australia /PRNewswire/ -- Digital Realty (NYSE: DLR), a leading global provider of data centre, colocation and interconnection solutions, announced [...]
Equinix to Spend $15m on PE2 Data Center Fitout By Ry Crozier, iTnews August 23, 2018 Equinix is committing US$11 million ($15 million) to expand the PE2 data centre in Perth that it acquired from Metronode as part of a $1 billion deal at the end of last year. The data centre operator said it [...]
