Tuesday Bytes: Telin, BW Digital, Spectrum Enterprise, Wildanet, Nokia

One subsea cable, one regional hospitality upgrade, one last mile investment, and one 5G technology upgrade:

Telin and BW Digital are teaming up for a new submarine cable system. It’s not a long one, but the 50km Nongsa-Changi cable system will connect Singapore with Batam in Indonesia, right across the busy Singapore Strait. It will consist of 24 fiber pairs and should be ready for service by the end of next year. That capacity will help meet demand for bandwidth coming from the rapidly growing Indonesian marketplace.

Spectrum Enterprise has built out some interesting fiber network for the hospitality sector out in Wisconsin. The connectivity upgrade brings more fiber as well as managed WiFi throughout the 600 acres of the Wilderness Resort in Wisconsin Dells. That’s about a half hour northwest of Madison on I-90 near Mirror Lake State Park.

Wildanet’s efforts to build out last mile fiber in Cornwall just got a £35M boost. The UK Infrastructure Bank is investing the funds in support of Wildanet’s rollout to another 20,000 homes and businesses. Wildanet won a £41M contract in April to roll out to 16,800 locations in April, and last year they won two contracts worth £36M as well. Cornwall is that bit of rural England sticking out out to the southwest toward the Atlantic Ocean and North America.

And Nokia has picked up an expanded partnership with Telecom Egypt. The deal will bring 5G technology to Egypt for the first time, upgrading the company’s RAN and starting with Alexandria, Aswan, Cairo, Giza, and Luxor. Nokia will supply gear from its AirScale portfolio, leveraging their ReefShark System-on-Chip technology. The partnership is an expansion of a longstanding existing relationship, of course.

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