Glo Fiber, powered by Shenandoah Telecommunications Company (Shentel), announced that future-proof, 100% fiber-optic broadband service is now available to initial neighborhoods in Salisbury, Maryland. Construction began in late 2023 and is expected to take 18-24 months to complete, providing over 14,000 homes and businesses with a reliable option for high-speed internet service.

On March 15, 2024, Africa saw another connectivity incident involving a major internet outage affecting West and Central Africa, caused by a break in submarine cable systems. Four of the nine subsea cables that connect South Africa to the rest of the world were reported as damaged due to incidents on either side of the continent.

At a signing ceremony, executives from Telecom Egypt and EXA Infrastructure expressed their commitment to launch a new era of cooperation that will see them work more closely together to support digital infrastructure initiatives.

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.