Monday Roundup: Arelion, Nokia, Burlington Telecom, DE-CIX

A few items, three domestic and one international:

Arelion has added another key route to its North American fiber network. They have expanded along the Gulf Coast with direct connectivity between Houston to Jacksonville. The diverse route bypasses Atlanta and touches key data centers in Slidell LA, Mobile AL, and Tallahassee FL.  The infrastructure will go live in Q1, connecting Arelion’s traffic flows in Florida with the infrastructure it has been assembling in Texas and south into Mexico.

Nokia and Aramco have completed a trial of Nokia’s PSE-6 technology in Saudi Arabia. The implementation has achieved a 2.4Tbps optical transmission, using Nokia’s line card’s 6x400GE over 300GHz of WDM spectrum. The trial leveraged a Dispersion Shifted Fiber route on Aramco’s fiber network. 

Burlington Telecom has some expansion plans up in Vermont. They will be building out their FTTH reach outward from Burlington itself to reach another 6,000 residences. The plans will see them build north into Winooski, northeast to Essex Junction, southeast into South Burlington and south to Shelburne. The buildout will bring them to another 6,000 residences.

And DE-CIX has expanded its New York City footprint across the east river into Brooklyn. They are adding an IX PoP within DataVerge’s facility in Brooklyn’s Industry City, with the new infrastructure to be ready in Q1. DE-CIX’s NYC reach includes 15 switches and 40 sites across the region.

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