News and BusinessAqua Comms, Meta, Microsoft, and Vodafone have announced the completion of the Amitié subsea cable system, the first to directly connect Boston to Europe and Bordeaux to North America. The 6,783 km trans-Atlantic system, which was built by Alcatel Submarine Networks, has landings in Lynn, Massachusetts; Widemouth Bay, England; and Le Porge, France. With 16 […]
News and BusinessAqua Comms, Bulk Fibre, Alcatel Submarine Networks (ASN) and Meta, have announced the completion the construction of the Havhingsten cable system, which runs across the Irish Sea from the north of Dublin, in the Republic of Ireland, to south of Blackpool on the west coast of the UK, with a section also linking into the […]
News and BusinessAqua Comms DAC and Telia Carrier, have announced that they have successfully completed a trial with Ciena to offer 400GbE commercial services between New York and Frankfurt. The trial follows Aqua Comms’ upgrade of its two Trans-Atlantic submarine cable routes with Ciena’s GeoMesh Extreme submarine network solution, which leverages WaveLogic 5 Extreme coherent optical technology. […]
News and BusinessInterxion, the provider of carrier and cloud-neutral colocation data centre services, has signed an agreement with Aqua Comms, the operator of subsea fibre-optic networks interconnecting the US and Europe. The deal enables the interconnection to the America Europe Connect-2 (AEC-2) subsea cable system from Interxion’s data centre in Copenhagen. AEC-2 is Aqua Comms’s portion of […]