Dropbox's blog has a post from Haowei Yuan and colleagues, about engineering the Dropbox network to support IPv6 at the edge. Dropbox is serving about 15% of their requests via…
South Atlantic submarine cable links USA and India
An agreement between Seaborn Networks and IOX Cable will see a new cable route established between the USA and India. (Seaborn Networks and IOX Cable Ltd to Provide First Subsea…
Seaborn sharpens SABR to link with South Africa
Seaborn Networks, the folks that linked Brazil and the USA together using the Seabras-1 cable are quietly busy. In one of the most low-key launches of a new route, you can't…
Rackspace announces intent to acquire Datapipe
Rackspace announce their intent to acquire Datapipe. This will make Rackspace a global leader in multi-cloud managed services, as well as hosting and private cloud provision.
Seabras-1 cable final splice milestone
A new cable between New York, New York, USA and Sao Paulo, Brazil, is almost ready. The SeaBras-1 cable has completed its final splice milestone, with the sub-sea elements completed…
SAIL set in the South Atlantic to link Brazil and Cameroon
Submarine Networks reports that Huawei Marine has signed contracts in Shanghai with China Unicom and Camtel to deliver the South Atlantic Inter-Link. China Unicom do Brasil, China Unicom and Camtel…
Equinix buys Verizon data centers
Equinix has completed a transaction to buy 29 Verizon data centers announced in December 2016. The $3.6bn transaction brings the datacenters, 250 staff and 1000 customers to Equinix's portfolio. These…