Nokia has announced that it has been selected by the Brazilian Network Information Center (NIC.br)—the world's largest Internet Exchange Point (IXP) operator—to enhance the performance and reliability of Brazil’s internet infrastructure.

Verizon and Vertical Bridge have entered into a definitive agreement for Vertical Bridge to obtain the exclusive rights to lease, operate and manage 6,339 wireless communications towers across all 50 states and Washington, D.C. from subsidiaries of Verizon for approximately USD 3.3 billion, including certain commercial benefits.

Aqua Comms has accelerated its investment by lighting a new fiber pair on AEC-1 system, Ireland’s first dedicated subsea fiber-optic network interconnecting New York, Dublin, and London.

Core-Backbone, a global network provider, deployed Infinera’s GX Series ICE6 800G coherent solution to upgrade and extend key network routes between Nuremburg and Munich, Nuremburg and Prague, and Hamburg and Düsseldorf.

DataBank announced the development of a 480MW data center campus on a 292-acre land in Red Oak, Texas, dramatically expanding its capacity and ability to meet growing demand for data center space and power being driven by AI applications.

SierraIG, a joint venture between SummitIG and Neutral Networks, is excited to establish a pure-play dark fiber infrastructure provider in Mexico that is committed to building purpose-built and underground dense fiber infrastructure in key data center markets throughout Mexico starting with the Querétaro and Monterrey markets.

In an all-cash transaction valued at USD 20 billion, Verizon will do a strategic acquisition of Frontier, the largest pure-play fiber internet provider in the US.

FiberSense Pty Ltd, has engaged APTelecom LLC to engage prospective customers on its behalf, taking its paradigm shifting DigitalMarine™ service to the wider market.

Through the Governor’s Office of Science, Innovation and Technology (OSIT), the State of Nevada has initiated Phase III of the High Speed Nevada Initiative (HSNV), aiming to expand high-speed internet access across the state.

Arelion and Ciena announced the successful completion of the world's first 1.6 terabits-per-second (Tb/s) wavelengths data transmission in a live network field trial. Powered by Ciena’s state-of-the-art WaveLogic 6 Extreme (WL6e), this milestone occurred on Arelion’s 470km route between its existing Points-of-Presence (PoPs) in Ashburn, Virginia (Equinix ) and Telxius’ (Telxius-CLS) Virginia Beach cable landing station, increasing capacity between two critical locations in Arelion’s North American network. Following this trial, Arelion will deploy WL6e across its network to increase its ability to serve the surging bandwidth demands of 5G, Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning (AI/ML) applications, cloud services, content delivery and more for wholesale and enterprise customers.