News and BusinessIt has been announced this week that Africa telecommunications and managed services provider SEACOM’s Equiano subsea cable has gone live with equipment partner Infinera, offering express connectivity from Cape Town, South Africa, to Lisbon, Portugal. The cable now forms part of SEACOM’s subsea cable ecosystem surrounding Africa, which is supported by a continent-wide IP-MPLS network […]
News and BusinessSeaborn Networks, a developer-owner-operator of submarine fibre optic cable systems is to use Infinera’s ICE6 800G coherent technology for its subsea network. Once deployed, the ICE6-powered solution will provide Seaborn with an architecture that can deliver 400 GbE services, including the option for direct PoP-to-PoP transport. Leveraging Infinera’s existing solutions, Seaborn has expanded its shared […]
News and BusinessTrans Ocean Network and Ocean Networks, Inc. have signed an MOU for Trans Ocean Network to provide landing party services and infrastructure in the Republic of Panama for the Caribbean Express (CX) submarine cable system. Under the terms of the MOU, Ocean Networks will lease space in the Trans Ocean Network cable stations and procure […]
Technologies and ProductsInfinera, a provider of Intelligent Transport Networks, announced new platforms within its DTN-X Family to power cloud scale subsea networks. The company introduced the XTS-3300 and XTS-3600 “meshponders” for subsea networks, and upgraded its DTN-X XTC Series to 12 terabits per second (Tb/s) of non-blocking Optical Transport Network switching with a new 1.2 Tb/s subsea […]