Future Systems
July 21st
Global Marine Lands Subsea 7 Contract
Global Marine has signed an agreement with Subsea 7 to support delivery of a submarine fiber link connecting several offshore platforms for BP. Read story…
A Digital Game Changer For The Sunshine Coast
The Sunshine Coast Council (Australia) has announced plans to establish a cable protection zone, with the intent of encouraging international broadband links. The Sunshine Coast would then be the closest digital connection point in Australia to the leading markets of Asia and the United States. Read story…
July 24th
Telx Supports FASTER Cable System On West Coast of U.S.
Data center provider Telx will be supporting the FASTER cable with a Point of Presence in Hillsboro, Oregon. FASTER is a new Trans-Pacific cable that will have an initial capacity of 60 Tb per second. Read story…
Rostelecom Starts Deploying Submarine Fibre Optic Cable
Rostelcom has begun deployment of a submarine cable system linking Kamchatka, Sakhalin and Magadan regions across the Okhotsk Sea. The project is due to be completed in September, and will result in a 2,000 km system with 400 Gbps initial capacity with the opportunity to expand it to up to 8 Tbps in future. Read story…
Offshore Energy
July 21st
Tampnet To Acquire Telecom Infrastructure In The Gulf Of Mexico From Broadpoint
The US subsidiary of the Norwegian-based Tampnet will acquire Broadpoint LLC, which owns and operates an offshore telecommunications system in the Gulf of Mexico. Read story…
Cable Owners
July 24th
Capacity Sales Robust On New South-East Asia-US Cable System
Hawaiian Telecom has announced capacity sales on the planned SEA-US cable have been robust, with total sales nearing $30 million USD. SEA-US directly links Indonesia to the United States with an initial design capacity of 20 Tpbs. Read story…
RCom Hires Ex-Hutchison Executive For Global Products Biz
Reliance Communications announced the appointment of Braham Singh as Senior Vice President to manage global product portfolio across its Indian enterprise division and submarine cable business arm Global Cloud Xchange. Read story…
