News and BusinessLatin American service provider América Móvil and infrastructure provider Telxius have announced the deployment of a new ultra-high-capacity subsea cable to link Guatemala and the United States, as part of the ongoing commitment of the two largest telecommunication groups in Latin America to improve global communications. Named AMX3 by América Móvil and Tikal by Telxius, […]
News and BusinessTelecom Egypt, Egypt’s first integrated telecom operator and one of the largest subsea cable operators in the region, has deployed Ciena’s WaveLogic 5 Extreme coherent optical technology to maximise capacity along the Mediterranean segment of the operator’s Middle East North Africa (MENA) submarine cable system and Egypt’s mesh network. The MENA submarine cable is an […]
News and BusinessTIM’s international service provider Sparkle has selected Infinera’s ICE6 800G-capable coherent technology to enhance its new Mediterranean and European optical backbone, Nibble. Sparkle says that deploying Infinera’s ICE6 solution will enable it to launch new 400 GbE services over its existing infrastructure while boosting its network capacity by up to 54%, as demonstrated in a […]
News and BusinessPacific Carriage Limited Inc (Delaware), operator of the Southern Cross Cable Network in the USA in collaboration with Pioneer Consulting, have started work on the Los Angeles landing of the 15,857.8 km (9,854 miles) trans-Pacific Southern Cross NEXT submarine cable system that connects to Sydney and Auckland with branches linking Fiji, Tokelau, and Kiribati. With […]
News and BusinessIndian 4G and mobile broadband digital service provider Reliance Jio Infocomm is constructing the largest international submarine cable system centred on India. Jio, in conjunction with global partners and submarine cable supplier SubCom, is currently deploying two next-generation cables to support the growth in data demand across the region. The India-Asia-Xpress (IAX) system will connect […]
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 BusinessSubmarine fibre optic telecommunications consulting and project management company Pioneer Consulting, has been awarded the shipboard representation contract for Southern Cross NEXT, the in-progress 13,494 km trans-Pacific submarine cable system connecting Sydney, Auckland, and Los Angeles, with branches linking Fiji, Tokelau, and Kiribati. As shipboard representatives, Pioneer Consulting experts will supervise cable loading, freighter transfer, […]
News and BusinessCinturion Corp, a provider of scalable, subsea and terrestrial capacity-based network solutions spanning India, the Middle East and Europe, has started construction of its Trans-Europe Asia System (TEAS). The project is set to deploy the most advanced fibre optic technology, bolstering the region’s information and computing technologies initiatives supporting bandwidth-hungry data centres and their growing […]
News and BusinessOrient Link (OLL) and NEC have signed an agreement to begin work on the 8,100-km MIST submarine cable system which will link Singapore, Malaysia, Myanmar, Thailand, and India. The network will have a design capacity of more than 216 Tbps and is scheduled for completion in 3Q22. OLL is a strategic joint venture company led […]
News and BusinessGlobal Cloud Xchange (GCX) and Sparkle have extended their partnership by adding new spectrum capacity over the Flag Atlantic (FA-1) transatlantic system connecting Paris and London to New York. Under the agreement, GCX will provide additional capacity on the current transatlantic connectivity, enabling Sparkle to offer faster and more reliable City2City services and Seabone IP […]
News and BusinessNEC Corporation and its subsidiary OCC Corporation have completed full qualification of subsea repeaters and optical cable containing up to 20 fibre pairs (40 fibres). NEC notes that this is a 25% improvement in fibre count over 16 fibre pair systems it has previously built, and that the development allows cable owners worldwide to construct […]
News and BusinessWholesale and corporate ICT service provider Angola Cables is trialling Nokia’s Photonic Service Engine (PSE-3) chipset for the first direct optical connection between the USA and Africa.. The new route is designed to provide direct, low-latency trans-Atlantic routing and greatly simplify the turn-up of services to better serve rapidly growing data consumption markets in Africa. […]
News and BusinessThe Southern Cross Cable Network (SCCN) Asia-Pacific to US subsea cable project has received official approval and full construction will now start. The Southern Cross NEXT project has achieved CIF (Contract in Force) permission. The Australia/New Zealand to Los Angeles link has the backing of leading telcos and is set to be ready to use […]
Technologies and ProductsTelstra and Infinera have announced a major boost to Telstra’s network services for customers in Asia Pacific, with a significant increase in fibre capacity to its subsea infrastructure using Infinera’s Infinite Capacity Engine 4 (ICE4). As part of an ongoing partnership, Infinera’s fourth-generation ICE4 optical engine is being rolled out across Telstra’s Asia Pacific subsea […]
News and BusinessFibre optic networking systems provider XKL has announced a deal with South Africa-based research and education network TENET, to supply XKL’s DarkStar transponder and mux/demux systems, providing a protected connection between two of TENET’s strategic data centre locations in London. The interconnection is a critical component of a subsea cable network linking London to Cape […]
News and BusinessSubsea fibre optics solutions company Xtera has been awarded a US Department of Defense (DoD) contract to build a new regional submarine cable communication system in the Caribbean. The contract was placed by the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA), a DoD combat support agency that provides, operates, and assures command and control and information-sharing capabilities […]