New Terrestrial Cable Links China and Nepal

China Telecom Global Limited (CTG) and Nepal Telecom announced an agreement to deliver IP services in Nepal. The services will leverage the 2016 newly launched terrestrial cable route connecting China and Nepal via Jilong (Rasuwa) Gateway. Ou Yan, Executive Vice President of CTG, said, "China Telecom is dedicated to expanding our footprint by connecting with neighbouring countries. The China-Nepal route could provide service to Nepal and transit...

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CyrusOne Breaks Ground on Huge Data Center in Sterling, Virginia

CyrusOne broke ground on a 654,000 square foot data center in Sterling, Virginia -- its fifth data center in the Northern Virginia market. CyrusOne said its new data center will have direct access to one of the largest fiber hubs in the United States as well as offer interconnectivity to the CyrusOne National Internet Exchange (IX) to reach other CyrusOne locations across the country. “The start of construction on the Northern Virginia Sterling...

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Ericsson Inaugurates Data Center in Quebec

Ericsson inaugurated its Global Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Center in Vaudreuil-Dorion, Quebec. The new data center follows the opening of the Global ICT Centers in Linköping, Sweden in September 2014, and Rosersberg, Sweden in January 2016. Ericsson said the new facility, which covers 20,000 square meters, allows it to emulate an operator's mobile network and to test new solutions as if they were running on a live network. The...

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Megaport Signs Bulgaria's Sofia Connect

Megaport, which operates a global Software Defined Network that helps customers to rapidly connect to other services and data centres across the world, announced that Omnix Group EAD, whom it acquired earlier this year, has entered into a strategic partnership with Sofia Connect EOOD ("Sofia Connect"), a leading wholesale carrier with headquarters in Bulgaria acting as a gateway provider, linking carriers from the Balkans, Caucasus region, and the...

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Linux Foundation Appoints Arpit Joshipura

The Linux Foundation announced the appointment for Arpit Joshipura as General Manager, Networking & Orchestration. Joshipura has served as CMO/VP in startups and larger enterprises such as Prevoty, Dell/Force10, Ericsson/Redback, ONI/CIENA and BNR/Nortel leading strategy, product management, marketing, engineering and technology standards functions. “Open source is the linchpin for massive transformation in the networking industry, similar...

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