Tuesday Bytes: Deutsche Telekom, Gamma, VIAVI, Digital Edge

Three bits of international news and one interplanetary:

Deutsche Telekom is reshuffling its operations to better address the wholesale opportunity. They are consolidating their national and international wholesale business units under the brand T Wholesale. T Wholesale will serve 250 providers and resellers in Germany and 900 more internationally, focusing on IPX, fiber, point to point connections, Ethernet, MPLS, security, data center, in-flight broadband, etc.

Gamma Communications says it has successfully integrated voice termination technology from Coolwave Communications. The European service provider acquired Coolwave 11 months ago, and has spent the last 6 months or so integrating a range of new capabilities. Gamma served 400 service providers and 1K channel partners, focusing on the UK, Germany, Spain, and the3 Netherlands.

Digital Edge has raised $1.6B in new capital for its expansion plans. The APAC data center operator says it added $640M in equity investment as well as $1B in debt financing that will power its next pahse of growth. The company is set to open a 300MW campus in Navi Mumbai in Q2 and is preparing a new hyperscale edge facility in downtown Tokyo.

And VIAVI revealed that it contributed precision components to NASA’s Europa Clipper mission. Europa Clipper launched from Earth in October, and will arrive in Jupiter orbit in April 2030 where it will fly past the moon Europa 49 times. VIAVI supplied a precision order sorting filter for the Mapping Imaging Spectrometer for Europa (MISE) instrument, which will help analyze surface composition and learn about the subsurface ocean.

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