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 [...]
Telkom Kenya Launches KSH.150M Data Center to Boost Colocation and Data Back-Up Telkom Kenya Press Release July 31, 2018 Nairobi, Kenya - Telkom has launched a KES 150Million data center in Nairobi’s Upper Hill to up its network quality, colocation and hosting services, Internet connectivity and local loop connectivity. The modernized open access facility at [...]
Spotlight on Asia Regional Cable Systems By Andrew Oon July 24, 2018 A Data Center Perspective It has been a roller-coaster ride over the past 20 years, which is almost one design lifespan of a cable system. In SubTel Forum Issue 100, Stephen Nielsen described the despondent state of the submarine cable industry in 2001, [...]
7 Questions with John Melick July 24, 2018 Talking Industry Trends with Djibouti Data Center’s Cofounder and Chairman John Melick is Cofounder and Chairman of the award winning Djibouti Data Center (DDC). The DDC is a privately held company, which launched commercial operations in Djibouti in 2013. The DDC is the only Tier 3 standard, [...]
Equinix And Omantel Enter Agreement To Build New Equinix Data Center In Oman Equinix Press Release July 6, 2018 REDWOOD CITY, Calif. and MUSCAT, Oman, - Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), the global interconnection and data center company, and Oman Telecommunications Company (Omantel, a MSM listed company: OTEL), announced the companies have entered into a joint venture [...]
