Thursday Roundup: Nokia, CityFibre, Boldyn, Ritter, Connectbase

Five bits of last mile news:

Nokia has picked up an R&E deal down in Texas. The Lonestar Education and Research Network will be using Nokia’s IP routing technology to upgrade its backbone. LEARN has 3200 route miles of fiber across the state, touching 300 member organizations. They are looking to incorporate nextgen cloud and AI capabilities.

CityFibre has kicked off another FTTx buildout. They have begun hooking up rural parts of East Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Hertfordshire. The project is backed by £58m in funding from Project Gigabit and will bring XGS-PON to some 150K homes and businesses.

Boldyn Networks is adding private 5G as a Service capabilities to its portfolio. They are investing some EUR300M in private networks around the globe, and this new service will have 4 service levels for organizations to customize their network to their own use cases. Private 5G networks continue to gain traction across a wide range of verticals.

Ritter Communications has announced buildout plans to Texarkana, which is a city or more accurately a pair of twin cities straddling the Arkansas-Texas border. They are investing $7M to bring their RightFiber FTTx offerings to multiple Texarkana neighborhoods, enabling speeds up to 5Gbps.

And Connectbase added another service provider to its ecosystem, this time from orbit. Viasat will be using Connectbase’s platform to enable sales partners to bring satellite-based services to small and medium businesses across the US. Viasat’s footprint reaches into fiber-poor rural areas.

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