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DigiPlex opens new data centre in Lillestrøm , Norway
DigiPlex , a Nordic leader for sustainable , innovative and secure data centres , has opened a second data centre at Fetsund in Lillestrøm municipality .
The new data centre is 2,200 sqm and will serve the increasing demand for sustainable and secure data centre capacity in Norway . DigiPlex now operates six data centres located in Norway , Sweden and Denmark .
The new facility is built to support 3 MW and is engineered for very high levels of service availability . Through DigiPlex Nordic Connect Platform , customers will also be able to operate dual site solutions for added security and significantly reduced risk of downtime . The majority of the site is already reserved for global customers but offers expansion possibilities to house additional customers . centre is under construction next to the now two operative centres in Lillestrøm , as well as another data centre at Holtskogen in Indre Østfold municipality , south east of Oslo . Both campuses at Fetsund and Holtskogen have possibilities for further expansion . Construction time for the new centres has been less than a year , despite challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic .
The expansion programme is partly financed through a fully subscribed NOK655 million bond issue that will be listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange this Autumn .
DigiPlex is expanding rapidly and as the new data centre is opened , one more data
Emtelle celebrates installation of five million metres of premium ducting solutions
With the help of Emtelle ’ s innovative solutions and technical support , B4RN has been successfully building its own fibre network for years . Deployments involve digging the routes , laying the fibre and splicing the fibres – and it ’ s not just superfast but hyperfast , bringing broadband speeds of one gigabit per second to every home .
Since 2011 , B4RN and Emtelle have worked in close collaboration and earlier in September they celebrated reaching the important milestone of the supply of five million metres of Emtelle ducting solutions . The event hosted at B4RN headquarters in Melling , Lancashire , involved Emtelle presenting the B4RN team with an exclusive golden 16 / 12mm Emtelle duct .
Broadband for the Rural North ( B4RN ), a professionally designed fibre optic network run by a dedicated local team of landowners and volunteers , and Emtelle , the global manufacturer of pre-connectorised , blown fibre cabling and ducted network solutions , have celebrated the installation of five million metres of Emtelle premium ducting solutions to connect thousands of rural communities in the North of England .
Barry Forde , CEO at B4RN , said : “ It has been a pleasure to work with Emtelle over the past nine years . It goes without saying that its solutions are of the highest quality .
" From supplying five million metres of ducts to providing ongoing technical support , this strong relationship has allowed us to seamlessly connect thousands of homes and businesses across rural parts of Lancashire , Cumbria and Yorkshire . We look forward to ramping up our network deployments to bring more outstanding broadband to more rural communities .”
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