A major expansion of 400 gigabits per second (Gbps) transoceanic circuit capacity has been dedicated to transferring research and education (R&E) data. As part of the Advanced North Atlantic (ANA) collaboration, this marks a significant achievement in high-speed connectivity between North America and Europe, supporting data-intensive science globally.

Infinera announced that NBN Co (nbn), Australia’s wholesale open-access broadband provider, has selected Infinera’s GX Series platform and ICE-X intelligent coherent pluggables to help upgrade its nationwide optical network. The combined solution, spanning metro, regional and long-haul transport, will expand the capacity of nbn’s nationwide network and enable the company to enhance delivery of high-speed services to its wholesale customers.

To support growing demand for more bandwidth across the Asia-to-Europe route, SEA-ME-WE 4 (South East Asia – Middle East – Western Europe 4) recently completed an upgrade to its submarine cable system. Powered by Ciena's GeoMesh Extreme submarine network solution, the upgrade enables a capacity increase from 65Tb/s to 122Tb/s on the SEA-ME-WE 4 cable system.

Arelion and Telxius will provide fully diverse, multi-terabit connectivity into Telxius’ landing stations in Boca Raton and Jacksonville, Florida. This fiber network expansion establishes Arelion Points-of-Presence (PoPs) at each Telxius landing station.

Microsoft has completed the acquisition of approximately 21 acres adjacent to its existing Palmetto data center campus in Atlanta, having invested USD 6 million as indicated by county property deeds.

IRIS NETWORKS, a middle-mile broadband provider with 25 years of experience serving underserved communities in the Southeast, completed a new 311-mile fiber route. The first build-out phase in IRIS's next-generation network using Cienna's 6500 hardware enables up to 400G to keep pace with business challenges and stay ahead of customer demands.

Multiple subsea cables in the Red Sea have been severed, impacting a significant portion, approximately 25%, of the data traffic between Asia and Europe, as reported by a telecommunications company and a representative from the United States.

Green Mountain, known for operating sustainable and energy-efficient data centers powered by renewable energy with minimal CO2 footprints, is helping Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) expand its ability to deliver high-demand artificial intelligence (AI) and high performance computing (HPC) workloads to customers. The additional capacity, hosted across two of Green Mountain’s Norwegian locations, will serve HPE customers that seek flexible and more sustainable access to compute.

Shenandoah Telecommunications Company (Shentel) announced that it has entered into a Purchase and Sale Agreement with Vertical Bridge Holdco, LLC (Vertical Bridge) to sell its tower portfolio and operations for $310.3 million in cash.

NJFX Utility Service LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of NJFX, has successful acquired key infrastructure assets from SubCom LLC, originally developed in 2001. This acquisition comprises bore pipes and conduits situated in Manasquan and Avon, New Jersey. This offers purpose built underground access to the NJFX Wall CLS Campus. These critical infrastructure assets required maintenance, which involves use of complicated and scarce marine expertise.