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Altice Europe links with Morgan Stanley Infrastructure Partners to create Altice Portugal FTTH network wholesaler

Altice Portugal FTTH will leverage all of MEO’s fiber to the home (FTTH) and dark fiber assets, which pass approximately 4 million homes in Portugal.

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Bluebird Network to buy Illinois Network Alliance

Bluebird Network was founded in part to manage the INA and says the new relationship will enable it to expand its capabilities and offerings between INA and other Bluebird infrastructures.

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FirstLight Fiber adds colocation resources via ColoSpace buy

FirstLight service enterprise and carrier customers in the U.S. Northeast with fiber-optic data, Internet, data center, cloud and unified communications services. The ColoSpace acquisition expands its service mix.

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Lumentum to sell certain Lithium Niobate based product lines to AFR

The assets, developed and manufactured by Lumentum's site in San Donato, Italy, site, are part of the company’s previously discontinued Telecom and Datacom product lines.

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GTT closes KPN International acquisition

The addition of KPN International adds more than 400 enterprise and carrier clients to its roster as well as infrastructure that crosses 21 countries.

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Eurofiber expands into France via acquisition

The company announced that it has purchased three French service providers: Eurafibre, ATE, and Eura DC.

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Altice’s SFR FTTH to buy Covage

Altice Europe describes Covage as the fourth largest fiber wholesale fiber network operator in France. Covage’s fiber footprint currently passes 800,000 homes, with a goal of 2.4 million homes.

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Broadcom reacquires optical transceiver assets from Foxconn

Avago sold the assets in 2015, shortly before the company merged with Broadcom through acquisition.

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Ribbon Communications to acquire ECI Telecom

Ribbon says the deal, which it hopes to close during the first quarter of 2020, will expand its product portfolio and position the company to participate in the 5G mobile market.

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Inphi to buy eSilicon for custom electro-optics

eSilicon provides complex FinFET ASICs, market-specific IP platforms, and 2.5D packaging products. The deal does not include eSilicon’s embedded memory IP (SRAM, TCAM, and multi-port memory compiler) and interface IP (HBM and HBI) lines.

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Anixter accepts takeover bid – but will solicit better offers

The board of directors at Anixter International Inc. has accepted a takeover bid from an affiliate of private investment firm Clayton, Dubilier & Rice. The agreement includes a 40-day window during which the board can solicit a superior bid.

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Hengtong to buy Huawei Marine Networks

HC2 Holdings says its Global Marine Group has agreed to sell its 49% stake in Huawei Marine Networks Co., Ltd. to Hengtong Optic-Electric Co Ltd. HC2 says Hengtong also will buy Huawei's share.

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Digital Realty to acquire Interxion in colocation/data center services consolidation

Digital Realty supplies data center, colocation, and interconnection services to customers in the Americas, EMEA, and Asia Pacific regions. Interxion provides carrier- and cloud-neutral colocation data center services in Europe.

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Prysmian to sell Draka Fileca to Carlisle Companies

Draka Fileca provides cabling and connectivity products for harsh environments, including aerospace, space, and defense applications.