Paris – September 30, 2026 -- Bluebird Fiber has signed a multi-year agreement with Ekinops to deploy carrier-grade optical networking equipment across its Midwest fiber backbone, enabling 100G to 400G wavelength services to meet rising hyperscale and wholesale data center demand.

Paris – September 15, 2026 -- Ekinops (Euronext Paris: EKI) and PacketFront Software Solutions AB have formed a partnership to offer European service providers a commercially competitive alternative to incumbent networking stacks, combining Ekinops' optical networking edge hardware with PacketFront's BECS orchestration platform.