News and BusinessAn international consortium of companies which signed an MoU back in December 2021 to work on the development of a submarine fibre optic system connecting Asia and Europe through the Arctic, have set up a joint corporation to move the project forward. Far North Fiber, Inc., brings together Finland’s Cinia Oy, Alaska’s Far North Digital […]
News and BusinessA team of researchers from Infinera, and Steve Grubb of Facebook have demonstrated a record-breaking transatlantic transmission across the trans-Atlantic MAREA cable, which spans 6,605 km from Virginia Beach, Virginia, USA to Bilbao, Spain. Originally intended to achieve a capacity of 20Tbps per fibre pair and a data rate of around 200Gbps per wavelength, the […]
News and BusinessSubmarine optical fibre management company Pioneer Consulting, the full-service submarine fibre optic telecommunications consulting and project management company, announces successful completion of owner’s representation on the CrossChannel Fibre project marine route survey on behalf of project developer Crosslake Fibre. The survey, conducted by EGS, is a major construction milestone for the first fibre optic submarine […]
News and BusinessHuawei Marine Networks (HMN) has sealed a deal to construct a new submarine cable for the Maldives Sri Lanka Cable system (MSC). The system will facilitate a direct connection between the Maldives and Sri Lanka, and as a result increase regional capacity and network diversity. MSC is a four fibre pairs system, equipped with HMN […]
News and BusinessThe Europe India Gateway (EIG) submarine cable system has been upgraded to accelerate and strengthen connectivity between businesses in the UK, Europe, the Middle East and India. Using Ciena’s submarine network solution, the upgrade allows EIG to utilise flexible, express wavelengths, also known as optical bypass, to reduce operational costs as well as space and […]
News and BusinessNew Jersey cable landing station campus NJFX has seen Telenor Maritime expand its US presence through the facility. Telenor Maritime is establishing a direct connection to Norway via the new 7200km Havfrue subsea cable system, which connects the US at NJFX to mainland Northern Europe via the North Atlantic. NJFX is home to four subsea […]
Applications and ResearchIn a paper appearing in the journal Science, researchers from the University of California, Berkeley, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) and Rice University describe an experiment that turned 20 km of undersea fibre optic cable into the equivalent of 10,000 seismic stations along the ocean floor. During their four-day […]
News and BusinessThe melting of the region’s ice is opening up the possibility of constructing a new Arctic subsea fibre cable route. This month, Finland’s Cinia and Russia’s MegaFon signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to set up a joint venture to prepare the build of a submarine communications cable across the Arctic Sea. The partners say […]
News and BusinessAARNet, Google, Indosat Ooredoo, Singtel, SubPartners and Telstra have announced that the INDIGO subsea cable system is now ready to be deployed by consortium members. This follows the on-schedule completion of the INDIGO West (4,600 km Singapore to Perth) and INDIGO Central (4,600 km Perth to Sydney cables. Featuring new spectrum-sharing technology, each consortium member […]
News and BusinessBulk Infrastructure and Amazon Web Services have signed an agreement to allow the cloud service provider’s use of Bulk´s part-owned transatlantic subsea cable HAVFRUE. It is the first transatlantic submarine cable to connect the US directly with Norway. The agreement, which also covers access to Bulk’s carrier neutral data centres in Southern Norway, includes HAVFRUE […]
Applications and ResearchNew research with lasers could enable service providers to push even more data through Transatlantic and other undersea optical cables to help meet the booming demand for transmission between North America and Europe. A method – based on using 16QAM modulation – could, say the researchers, even increase network capacity without requiring new ocean cables, […]
Applications and ResearchInfinera has announced a successful subsea field test with Canalink across its subsea cable. The test, conducted with the Infinera Infinite Capacity Engine (ICE4) and featuring Infinera’s fourth-generation photonic integrated circuit, demonstrated the capability to upgrade the cable capacity by a factor of 13. The test was conducted on Canalink’s 1,400-km subsea cable, linking the […]