{"id":40618,"date":"2025-01-17T14:25:15","date_gmt":"2025-01-17T14:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/?p=40618"},"modified":"2025-01-17T14:25:15","modified_gmt":"2025-01-17T14:25:15","slug":"exa-infrastructure-reaches-agreement-to-acquire-aqua-comms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2025\/01\/exa-infrastructure-reaches-agreement-to-acquire-aqua-comms.html","title":{"rendered":"EXA Infrastructure Reaches Agreement to Acquire Aqua Comms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>London-registered network operator <a href=\"https:\/\/exainfra.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">EXA Infrastructure<\/a>, which was acquired by investment firm &#8216;I Squared Capital&#8217; in 2021, has today announced that they&#8217;ve signed binding agreements to acquire specialist connectivity services provider Aqua Comms, which operates a number of transatlantic and intra-European subsea infrastructure systems (fibre optic cables).<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>EXA Infrastructure currently operates over 150,000km of digital infrastructure across 37 countries, including 20 cable landing stations that provide critical connectivity to subsea systems. Meanwhile, Aqua Comms is an Ireland-based service provider specialising in operating submarine cable systems and supplying fibre pairs, spectrum and wholesale network capacity to the global content, cloud, carrier &amp; enterprise markets.<\/p>\n<p>Aqua Comms is also the owner\/operator of the America Europe Connect-1 (AEC-1), America Europe Connect-2 (AEC-2), CeltixConnect-1 (CC-1) and CeltixConnect-2 (CC-2) subsea fibre links and is part of a consortium that owns\/operates the Amiti\u00e9 cable system (AEC-3).<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"bq1\"><p><strong>Jim Fagan, CEO of EXA Infrastructure, said:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The acquisition of Aqua Comms demonstrates EXA Infrastructure\u2019s commitment to build a modern and diverse Transatlantic platform to fully serve AI, Cloud and Content demand, now and in the future. 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