Two items from the UK, and two more from the Middle East:
A new player is entering the London data center scene. Galaxy Data Centers has partnered with the real estate investment firm Castleforge to acquire Redhill Data Centre. The Redhill campus spans 11,800 square meters within the Foxboro Business Park and features some 26MVA of power. The release didn’t mention who the prior owner was, but Digital Realty no longer has a facility in Redhill listed.
CityFibre has begun building out fiber in rural Sussex. The plan is to connect 57K homes in hard to reach areas of both East and West Sussex, backed by a Project Gigabit award. East and West Sussex are counties of England along the island’s southern coast to the south of London.
Nokia’a next generation gear was put to work in the Middle East with stc Group. The two have completed a 1Tbps longhaul field trial, transporting 6x100GE and 1x400GE over a single 1Tbps wavelength on 850km of fiber. The trial leveraged Nokia’s PSE-6s technology within a DCI DWDM context.
And we have a bit of dark fiber news from Iraq. iQ Networks has signed a dark fiber IRU deal with Gulf Bridge International. The deal gives iQ Networks more than 1Tbps on its Silk Route Transit infrastructure, which seeks to provide a terrestrial alternative to the subsea cables connecting Europe and East Asia.
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