Metro Bytes: euNetworks, Lumen, Archtop, Render, Connectbase, Eurofiber

Four bits of news from the metro and last mile to keep up with as we start the week:

euNetworks now has a new CEO. The pan-European infrastructure provider announced late last week that their current CEO Paula Cogan will retire. Kevin Dean, former CMO and member of the leadership team from 2014-2022 has returned to take the Interim CEO role while the company looks for a permanent replacement. Ms. Cogan became CEO to start 2023.

Lumen has picked up a customer in the education vertical out in New Mexico. The state’s Office of Broadband Access and Expansion has selected Lumen to provide 900 miles of fiber to K-12 schools around the state. The first phase will be 27 public schools in the Gadsden Independent School District in Santa Teresa as well as 3 charter schools in Albuquerque, with the first being the 21st Century Public Academy.

Archtop Fiber has tapped Render Networks to help with its expansion in the Northeast. They will use Render’s network construction management technology to help accelerate their projects in New York, New Jersey, and Massachussets. The FTTH provider annnounced an expansion into the Berkshires just last month.

And Connectbase has brought another key global fiber infrastructure provider into its data ecosystem. Eurofiber is their latest partner, adding 70,500km of fiber networks in the Netherlands, Belgium, and France to the list. Other ecosystem particpants will be able to access that infrastructure with real time quoting.

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