Monday Roundup: Zayo, CityFibre, Hurricane Electric, Nokia

Four items on four continents to start the week:

Zayo has won a new education customer in the Appalachians. Kentucky’s Department of Education has picked Zayo to upgrade both connectivity and cybersecurity for its infrastructure across 1,700 K-12 facilities in the state. Over the last 9 months they have been transitioning from a previous ISP, and now serve the DOE agency staff themselves, internet hubs in every school district, and both the Kentucky School for the Deaf and the Kentucky School for the Blind. The deal was facilitated by Zayo’s acquisition of ENA two years ago.

CityFibre says it has connected its first Project Gigabit fiber customers in Norfolk. Norfolk is a county in eastern England, northeast of Cambridge and bordering on the North Sea. Specifically mentioned were customers in Newton St. Faith and Horsham St Faith, where in the past an FTTC hybrid fiber/copper solution was the most one could get.

Hurricane Electric continued its ever-ongoing expansion with a new PoP in East Asia. They have deployed a node within AT TOKYO’s facility in Chuo Center on their IPv4/IPv6 global network. AT TOKYO CC1 has some 140,000 square meters of space within the 23 wards of Tokyo, and is HE’s second location in the city and the third in Japan overall.

And Nokia has won some IXP business down in South America. NIC.br will be using Nokia’s technology to scale its capacity over the next 5 years. More specifically they will be replacing existing technology with Nokia’s 7250IXR and 7250SR, which support 400/800G and EVPN services. NIC.br expects the Brazilian market to hit 50Tbps overall in the next few years.  According to Nokia, 6 of the top 10 global IXPs are now using their technology in support of some 45Tbps of exchange traffic.

 

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