Valdor Technology Intl. Inc. (fka VTIFF)

[ShawnJon]

Fiber Optic Sector Explosion is here now!


Valdor is positioned and poised to make big strides in the Fiber Optic's sector. Telecom's around the world are rolling-out fiber optics. Major announcement by major-telecoms made over the summer positioned VTI to answer RFQ's from the telecoms.

As vacation season draws to a close, news in the sector should start to pick up in September. Nevertheless, there's plenty going on if you look hard enough.

In the Great Lakes region, 123Net has been busy ramping up its service in western Michigan for some time now. In May they acquired T2 Communications in a deal that didnt make it onto my desk at the time. This week they added to their portfolio with the launch of fixed wireless servicesof up to 1Gbps in the Grand Rapids area.

Consolidated Communications says it is accepting some funds from Connect America Fund Phase II. They'll be using that to help finance the extension of their broadband reach to some 24,700 rural locations across seven states. That's $566 per location, which should help some in reaching into those rural areas. Consolidated bought Enventis last year, and I suspect they'll be ready for some more consolidation soon.

In Florida, Allied Fiber says its partner Hypower did some superb splicing as it helped build that new fiber network between West Palm Beach in Atlanta. The contractor managed a db splice loss of 0.18-0.19 per kilometer over the 700 miles they worked on between West Palm Beach and Barnesville, Georgia. Allied Fiber completed its first segment buildout in June and is now pivoting toward its next project, although they're still playing the details close to their vest on that part.

And in the Far East, Epsilon has finished rolling out a new fiber infrastructure in Singapore. The expansion leverages local fiber networks to hook up five new key data centers and enterprises to the company's global network. It will help power the cloud connectivity infrastructure Epsilon will be taking to market there.


he summer season is over, and a flurry of interesting news has hit the wires already this week.

CityFibre got some additional traction in the Scottish city of Edinburgh this morning. Back in March, they announced plans to make Edinburgh one of their "Gigabit City" projects with a 50km initial buildout. This morning, they won a 7 year deal to bring fiber to another 294 council-owned sites, replacing an existing contract held by BT. The deal is worth a minimum of £5.6M and up to £16M with extensions, and will see another 100km of infrastructure built out over the next 12 months.

The pan-African carrier Liquid Telecom has been busy getting certified by the MEF. This week theyannounced that they've received Carrier Ethernet 2.0 certification, the first company in their region to manage it. Liquid Telecom's Ethernet and fiber reach stretches from Uganda to South Africa, and has been one of the continent's most interesting terrestrial network stories for some years now.

Back in the USA, EdgeConneX has partnered with another regional internet exchange. They've hooked up with the Northwest Access Exchange, or NWAX, in Portland, Oregon, and will be bringing a new remote NWAX node online in the fourth quarter of this year. EdgeConneX has been helping shake up the data center interconnection market over the past year or two by building facilities closer to eyeball network distribution points and facilitating direct connections between content and the last mile. They've had a flurry of recent announcements bringing in connectivity to IX fabrics located in these edge markets, further accelerating the trend.

And finally, Verizon jumped all the way onto Cisco's SDN bandwagon this morning. They unveiled a new software-defined WAN service that is powered by Cicso's Intelligent WAN technology. Both Verizon and Cisco will be marketing the managed solution to their respective enterprise customer bases in the US, with EMEA to follow.


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