News and BusinessNordic infrastructure provider Bulk Fiber Networks, says it has completed the of construction of its high-capacity HAVSIL submarine cable. Selected by the Norwegian Communications Authority as the new main secure fibre system for the nation’s international data traffic, the express route is the shortest, connecting Norway with continental Europe. Norway has a National Strategy for […]
News and BusinessArctic Connect, the international project is to build the first trans-Arctic submarine fibre cable between Europe and Asia has received a boost with the addition of new partners from Japan, Norway and Finland. Finland-based Cinia Ltd, is leading the project in collaboration with Russian operator MegaFon. New partners include Sojitz Corporation, a multi-national trading and […]
News and BusinessGoogle says it plans to build a new subsea cable linking the United States, the United Kingdom and Spain. Once commissioned, the Grace Hopper cable will be one of the first new cables to connect the US and UK since 2003, increasing capacity on this busy global crossroads and powering Google services like Meet, Gmail […]
News and BusinessInternational service provider Sparkle, and Ciena have announced the upgrade of Sparkle’s 10,476km fibre on the Curie submarine cable, using Ciena’s WaveLogic 5 Extreme (WL5e) 800G programmable solution, to improves capacity and speed on the Chile to U.S. route. Sparkle will also have direct connectivity between data centres in the U.S. and Chile using Ciena’s […]
News and BusinessSeaborn Networks, the developer-owner-operator of transoceanic subsea fibre optic cable systems, has announced new high capacity connectivity from its Seabras-1 IP Network directly into key global IX (internet exchange) locations. Seabras-1 goes between São Paulo, Brazil and New York, and is the only direct PoP to PoP system between those two metro areas. It offers […]
Technologies and ProductsGtd, a Chilean multi-service telecommunications provider, has deployed Infinera solutions to significantly increase capacity across its terrestrial network in Chile and its subsea networks for “Prat,” a submarine optical fibre project that will provide high-quality internet for Gtd’s national territory in Chile. The Chilean company operates subsea and terrestrial internet networks throughout Chile, Colombia, Peru, […]
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 […]
News and BusinessCleareon, a New York City-based provider of neutral access solutions, including wholly owned fibre infrastructure, lit services and data centre services, has rolled out a subsea system to provide 100 Gig wavelengths between the transatlantic cable landing stations in Wall Township, New Jersey, and the 1025Connect facility in Westbury, Long Island. Cleareon is accepting orders on the […]
News and BusinessSeaborn Networks and IOX Cable Ltd have entered into a joint provisioning agreement to provide the first next-generation subsea fibre optic route between the USA and India that will interconnect in South Africa and Brazil. This path connecting the USA with three of the BRICS countries and Mauritius is designed to provide the most secure […]