Wednesday Roundup: SUBCO, Motorola Solutions, Hurricane Electric, Bolden, euNetwors

News from around the world plus the American southwest:

SUBCO’s SMAP cable is ready to be loaded onto a cable ship at ASN’s location in Calais, France. SMAP will be a 16-fiber-pair, 5,000km cable connecting the major Australian markets of Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, and Perth. The current schedule foresees SMAP being ready for commissioning and testing in December of this year.

Motorola Solutions has made an inorganic move. The managed services provider has acquired RapidDeploy, which specializes in cloud-native, next generation 911 solutions. Based in Austin TX, RapidDeploy’s technology gives first responder access to location data on mobile devices and with modern analytics.

Hurricane Electric has expanded the reach of its global IPv6-native backbone in the American southwest. They have added a PoP at the Oso Grande facility in Albuquerque NM. It’s HE’s second location in Albuquerque, and will support ports of up to 100GE with connectivity to some 10K networks around the world.

In Germany, Smart Mobile Labs has signed an agreement with Deutsche Bahn AG to build 5G campus networks. SML, which is part of Boldyn Networks, will use 3.75-3.8Ghz local spectrum to implement such networks in the railroad’s maintenance depots, train formation, and transshipment facilities. The projects are part of a broader digitalization and automation effort.

And euNetworks has hired itself a Chief Revenue Officer. Richard Gulson has been appointed to the CRO role, joining the company after an 11 year tenure at Equinix and a 14 year stint at Level 3 (now Lumen). His task will be to oversea euNetworks go-to-market strategy, helping further monetize the major investments the company has made in its SuperHighway infrastructure on the FLAP-D routes.

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