CommScope says its Professional Services team will manage a cloud capacity expansion for StackPath, an edge-computing platform provider. The upgrade effort will affect 12 sites worldwide.
The upgrade effort will see CommScope’s Professional Services team manage such activities as the installation of new switches, power distribution units, and network cabling. The team also will oversee the decommissioning of equipment, asset tagging and recovery, bespoke packaging, logistics, and warehousing in preparation for future redeployment. The initial projects in this effort are scheduled for completion in the current quarter, with addition efforts planned into 2021.
“StackPath is experiencing tremendous demand for our edge computing platform, and we tapped CommScope to lead the build out of our data centers around the world to stay ahead of that demand,” said Paul Drew, vice president, Infrastructure & IT, StackPath. “CommScope offers unique, global expertise in large-scale data center deployments, and we’ll be working hand-in-hand with them in a number of key areas to prepare our network for tomorrow’s hyperscale opportunities.”
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