Int’l Bytes: EXA, Ultranet, SubCom, ODATA, Nokia

Four interesting projects to catch up with, two in Europe and two in Latin America.

EXA and Ultranet are teaming up for some new fiber in northern Italy. The two will be constructing a 175km diverse fiber route from Milan to Genoa. On the Genoa end the infrastructure will connect all existing cable landing stations, while Milan is the country’s biggest technology hub. Ultranet operates some 12,000km of fiber across Italy, while EXA’s reach extends throughout Europe and across the Atlantic.

SubCom has been awarded the contract to design, manufacture, and install the MANTA cable system down in the Gulf. MANTA is backed by Sparkle, Gold Data, and Liberty Networks, and will connect key destinations in Mexico, Central and Latin America, and the USA via new, diverse, low latency paths. The 5,400km cable will be manufactured at SubCom’s New Hampshire facility and then loaded onto a cable ship for installation.

ODATA has unveiled a significant new data center project down in Brazil. DC SP04 will be located in Oasco in the São Paulo metro area. At completion it will be a $450M project, feature 48MW of capacity at densities of up to 50kW per rack. They will also leverage the Delta Cube cooling system that was developed by ODATA’s corporate parent Aligned Data Centers. The facility will be operational in April.

Nokia’s routing technology has landed a new customer contract. The hosting provider Hetzner has deployed Nokia’s 7750 SR-1x routers in both Germany and Finland, with additional locations across Europe to follow. The upgrade will also leverage next generation automation and real-time telemetry, and will support 400G and 800G interconnectivity needs when the time comes.

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