9+ hour, 55+ min ago   (235+ words) South Africa-based Digital Parks Africa (DPA) says it’s expanding into West Africa with plans to develop a new carrier-neutral data centre in Nigeria in association with the Master Power Technologies Group. The new facility, Nigeria Data Centre 1 (NDC1), will be built…...

4+ day, 8+ hour ago   (292+ words) UAE-based data centre operator DAMAC Digital and Vodafone Türkiye have inaugurated the first phase of a new data centre in Izmir with an initial IT load capacity of 4MW and an investment of US$100 million. The Izmir data centre, launched on…...

4+ day, 21+ hour ago   (234+ words) The LuLu Coastal Cable System the Kenyan coast’s first fully protected coastal cable system, has been announced at this week’s ITW Africa digital infrastructure and connectivity event, held in Nairobi. LuLu is a submarine cable designed to strengthen connectivity along…...

2+ week, 7+ hour ago   (331+ words) Vietnam is reportedly once again facing disruptions to internet connectivity speeds with four out of six international subsea cable connections now suffering from outages. According to several media reports on Friday, the Southeast Asia–Japan 2 (SJC2) cable and the Asia-Africa-Europe 1 (AAE…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (248+ words) Data centre company Equinix has reportedly expanded its Colombia data centre footprint and increased its investment, bringing online the second phase of BG2, its second data centre in Colombia, doubling the site's cabinet capacity in Bogota. The BNamericas website says the…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (263+ words) Ciena announced on Thursday that Indonesia’s ION Network (a.k.a. Parsaoran Global Datatrans) is deploying its WaveLogic 6 Extreme (WL6e) on its new ION Cable System 1 (ICS1) that will connect Jakarta with Singapore. The 2,000-km ICS1 system will run on Ciena’s 6500 platform powered by WL6e coherent…...