Int’l Bytes: SubCom, Nokia, EXA, Esnet, SkyLab

Two subsea cable projects, a wireless infrastructure upgrade, and an AI expansion:

The far north will be getting a new subsea cable system. Space Norway has signed a deal with SubCom to build the Arctic Way Cable System, which will connect the Norwegian mainland with Jan Mayen in the North Atlantic and the Svalbard Archipelago. Svalbard sits at the intersection of the North Atlantic, Arctic Ocean, and the Barents Sea at a latitude of about 78 degrees. The sun just started rising again there a few days ago.

Telefonica says it will be using Nokia’s Packet Core solution to upgrade its 4G and 5G network for enterprise customers in Spain. The upgrade will enable Telefonica to roll out a range of new low latency services. They will also be using Nokia Cloud Mobile Gateway and Nokia Mediation on their telco cloud.

The new IOEMA cable system will be working with EXA Infrastructure to land in the city of Leiston in the eastern UK. The 1,600km system will crisscross the North Sea and connect 20 landing stations in the UK, Netherlands, Germany, Denmark, and Norway. EXA will also provide backhaul to data centers in London such as those of Telehouse and Equinix.

And the Singaporean AI and GPUaaS provider SkyLab is expanding into Korea. They have signed a strategic partnership with Esnet Systems to extend their XR Cloud infrastructure into the country. From there SkyLab will be able to address AI demand from South Korean enterprises. Esnet will integrate XR Cloud into its solutions portfolio.

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