NTT Europe, a subsidiary of the Japanese telecommunications giant, [revealed] last week that it is expanding its IP network into eastern Europe.
[It has] expanded into Hungary, Romania, and Bulgaria, adding new PoPs in the usual spots: Budapest, Bucharest, and Sofia. The expansion will let NTT better serve carriers in the region, and give them better access to what is a growing slice of the bandwidth market.
Eastern European traffic growth has outpaced most other regions for a while now, and the region is becoming un-ignorable for tier-1 networks. Sofia hardly seems like the end of that chain, I’ll bet NTT shows up in Istanbul before long as well, just as several other large carriers have over the past few years.
NTT has been active on its own turf lately, trialing 100G gear on its PC-1 transpacific cable and committing to its deployment when the gear is fully ready.
In Europe though, [its] network is built off of leased wavelengths I believe, so if they want 100G pipes there they’ll have to wait for other carriers to start selling them.
This article was authored by Rob Powell and was originally posted on Telecomramblings.com
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