CEO Bill Barney is launching a new company targeting the development of cable landing station and edge data centre facilities in emerging markets and underserved economies, particularly those with US interests in today\u2019s geopolitical environment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The new Annapolis, Maryland-based firm, called Modularity, is a new iteration of AMSS, a US company that has been in business some 60 years building modular infra[1]structure across communications, residential and hospitality projects. \u201cBasically, we are taking over their manufacturing business\u2026 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania,\u201d Barney, CEO and co-founder of Modularity told CommsDay. \u201cIts got a long history of building, not in the telecom and data centre space, but working for the State Department, typically builds in remote areas, computer centres\u2026 they built the [US] embassy in Baghdad.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The business is also co-founded by COO Alan Rand, formerly of AMSS. Modularity will pivot the business to focus on modular cable landing stations and da[1]ta centres, combining that with systems integration and managed services capabilities. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The company\u2019s first three projects will be in Iceland, the Middle East and in the Pacific Islands. Barney expects these deals to be announced in the coming months. Commenting on its opportunities in the Pacific, Barney said \u201cthat part of the world has all of a sudden become critical\u201d highlighting the \u201cshift in geopolitics\u201d between the US and China. \u201cWe are very focused on being a US-only company.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
At this point, Barney said the \u201csweet spot\u201d for Modularity is projects below 10 megawatts, with most coming in \u201csub-1MW.\u201d \u201cThink of us as kind of the pointy end of the sword, we are going into a lot of these markets\u2026 we\u2019ll build the first deployment. Our limitation is, once you get above 10 megawatts, it gets very difficult for us to build,\u201d he said. \u201cThe reality is we are just the beginning\u2026 typically, you need a data centre on the ground first, particularly when you are testing a new market, so in many cases, that\u2019s what we are doing\u2026 putting a landing station, then a data centre.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The company can deliver a facility within 90 days of ordering Barney added. \u201cWe have that capacity to do that now. We can essentially do in a year, anywhere from 12 to 15 of these things at a time. The factory has additional capacity and storage, so we can essentially do slightly more if we needed to.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
As a manufacturer, Modularity will produce the infrastructure, but will go as far as to operate the facilities. According to the firm\u2019s website, it also offers so-called \u201ctransmission modules,\u201d designed to support the deployment of optical signal amplification and reconfigurable optical add-drop multiplexer systems in harsh environments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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