Int’l Bytes: Nokia, Canal+, Cologix, Syntys, GTT

A couple contract wins and two bits of expansion news from around the globe this week:

Nokia has picked up a customer in the French Caribbean territories. Canal+ Telecom will be deploying Nokia’s Lightspan and Altiplano solutions as it rolls out FTTX capabilities in French Guiana and Guadeloupe. The technology will give them a path to 24G PON when the time comes.

Cologix has a new tenant at its TOR3 location in Toronto, Canada. The cloud storage company Backblaze has deployed its services there, with a direct fiber connection to TOR1 and the TorIX exchange. Backblaze is looking to meet data sovereignty compliance needs for businesses operating in Canada. TOR3 is a tier-III facility offering 20K square feet of space and 2MW of power.

There is a newly independent force entering the data center markets of the Middle East and North Africa. Syntys has been spun off from Ooredoo, and will be targeting growing regional demand for cloud and AI infrastructure. They had already raised $552M and are looking to spend as much as $1B on scaling their infrastructure to 120MW or more.

And GTT shared a bit of its expansion strategy for 2025. The global network and security provider will be expanding its Envision platform, improving its SASE capabilities into fixed wireless and satellite connections. Also on tap are an expanded presence in APAC, the Middle East, Africa, and Latin America and additional automation and API capabilities across the company’s footprint.

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