Cable Faults
June 15th
AAG Submarine Cable Has Been Repaired
AAG has been repaired, and service is fully restored. Read Story…
Future Systems
June 15th
PLDT To Invest Up To USD 100mln In Second AAG Cable System
PLDT intends to sign a MoU as part of a consortium of telecom operators to support plans for a second AAG system. PLDT plans to invest between 50 and 100 million USD. Read Story…
June 17th
Hawaiki Cable Selects Natixis To Close Its Financing
Hawaiki Submarine Cable LP, the New Zealand owner and developer of Hawaiki submarine cable system, has appointed French bank Natixis as Exclusive Equity Advisor for the project. Read Story…
Upgrades
June 16th
Alcatel-Lucent To Deploy 100G Optical Backbone Network In Italy For Tiscali
Alcatel-Lucent has been selected by Italian telecom Tiscali to upgrade backbone infrastructure and submarine cable links. THe upgrade will apply 100G technology and includes two submarine cable links between Olbia in Sardinia and Civitavecchia, on the Italian peninsula, and between Cagliari in Sardinia and Mazara del Vallo in Sicily. Read Story…
Current Systems
June 16th
WACS Submarine Cable To Go Operational In Cameroon On July 1
The West Africa Cable System will be operational in Cameroon starting July 1st. This is the second submarine cable after SAT3 to land in Cameroon. Read Story…
Technology
June 19th
OFS Launches New TrueM2™ 6kW Beam Combiner At Laser World of Photonics
OFS will be showcasing it's new 6×1 TrueM2-14 beam combiner at the Laser World of Photonics Exposition being held in Munich, Germany from 22 through 25 June 2015. Read Story…
