VeEX has completed the acquisition of all outstanding assets of Digital Lightwave, a provider of communications and data networking products and services that enable the development, deployment and management of optical networks. With the addition of Digital Lightwave operations, VeEX reports it will strengthen its VeSion platform with the NAA/MPA/EAHD probes.
Vetro FiberMap announced its network mapping platform, which is reportedly designed specifically to meet the needs of small to mid-sized ISPs and community broadband networks. The solution is said to provide a secure, cloud-based platform that helps ISPs plan, design, cost, build, market, manage and operate their networks.
The company says it delivers real-time network mapping to leadership, engineering, marketing and all departments anytime, anywhere through any web browser.
“As we worked with dozens of communications companies over many years, we found that small and mid-sized ISPs have a common set of mapping needs as they deploy their fiber networks,” Vetro FiberMap Co-Founder Will Mitchell says. “Legacy network inventory mapping tools are too big, too complex, and too expensive for them. They wind up using using Google Earth for maps and spreadsheets for strands and circuits, but they really struggle to bring all of this data together and share information across their business efficiently. We’ve built this platform specifically for these companies so that they can now work from one common fiber network mapping and fiber management database.”
Centeris announced an alliance with Chunghwa Telecom Global, the U.S. subsidiary of Taiwan’s largest telecom provider, Chunghwa Telecom Co. Ltd. The partnership reportedly provides direct access for CHT Global and its Asia-based business customers to Centeris’ recently launched Transpacific Hub, as well as an Asian gateway for Centeris and its U.S.-based customers, through CHT Global’s service offerings and facilities in Taiwan.
Launched in March, the hub is located at Centeris’ 86-acre data center campus in suburban Seattle. The hub is said to combine fast and secure connectivity with industrial IT power for businesses operating throughout Asian markets and the U.S. requiring compute, storage, e-commerce, disaster recovery and cloud computing applications. It also leverages dense fiber networks connecting to key network access points (NAPs) along the West Coast as well as new fiber construction that connects directly to Asian markets via nearby subsea cable systems.