Int’l Bytes: Sparkle, GTT, Zenlayer

Four bits of international news:

Among the academic options for people interested in internet infrastructure, there is now the possibility of a post-graduate degree in submarine fiber optic cables. Sparkle, the University of Genoa, and the SubOptic Foundation have signed an agreement for that as well as coordinated R&D on the topic. Courses will be able to leverage contributions from experts from Sparkle and others.

Meanwhile, Sparkle has also picked up another European bandwidth customer. Nexim Global has tapped the Italy-based global backbone operator for IP transit, DDoS protection, and other services in Milan, Amsterdam, and Frankfurt. Nexim Global operates some 8,600km of fiber network, focusing on the media and content distribution space.

GTT has picked up a global engineering customer over in France. setec will be leveraging GTT’s solutions to transform its network infrastructure. They’ll be leveraging GTT’s SIP Trunking capabilities as well as WAN and Dedicated Internet links, enabling setec to centralize its data processing to 5 sites. Setec is a multidisciplinary engineering company with 3800 employees worldwide.

And Zenlayer has upgraded its network infrastructure over in Asia. Preparing for growing AI demand, they have increased their total capacity to a potential 100Tbps in the region, adopting 800Gbps technology between their compute clusters. Latency between Singapore and Johor is kept under 5ms, and between Singapore and Jakarta under 20ms. Zenlayer’s footprint connects 60 data centers in East Asia and Southeast Asia.

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Categories: Artificial Intelligence · Fiber Networks · Interconnection · Internet Backbones · Undersea cables