MainOne’s Submarine Cable, Ready for Service in Cote d’Ivoire MainOne Press Release December 2, 2019 MainOne today announces its submarine cable in Cote d’Ivoire is live and ready for service. The project, notable for being the first commercial cable system in service to deploy spectrum sharing capabilities, will offer capabilities to deepen infrastructure sharing and [...]
New Caledonia to Connect Hawaiki Cable Hawaiki Cable Press Release December 2, 2019 VAO, NEW CALEDONIA - SCCI, a carrier recently incorporated in New Caledonia, and Hawaiki Submarine Cable LP have signed a multi-million dollar contract to provide SCCI with a turn-key solution to connect the island nation to Hawaiki, including a subsea branch to [...]
Google’s Submarine Cable Curie Will Add a Panama Branch By Yevgeniy Sverdlik, DataCenter Knowledge November 18, 2019 The construction of Curie, Google’s own submarine cable that runs from Los Angeles to Valparaíso, Chile, is complete, the company said – at least construction of the main trunk. Google also said that it will add a branch [...]
Angola Cables and Nokia Trial First Direct Optical Fiber Link Between Africa and the USA Angola Cables Press Release November 13, 2019 Trial successfully completed in a collaborative effort to provide a direct, low latency Trans-Atlantic path from Luanda to Boca Raton. AfricaCom, Cape Town, South Africa - Angola Cables and Nokia have announced that [...]
Hawaiki Signs Deal With Australia's Anycast By Sam Varghese November 13, 2019 New Zealand submarine cable system operator Hawaiki Submarine Cable has signed a deal with Australian wholesale network provider Anycast Networks whereby the latter will use its year-old cable system as a primary source of capacity between Australia and the US. Anycast sells virtualised [...]
GlobeNet to Pass Fiber Through Venezuela, Colombia to Brazil By Bnamericas November 12, 2019 Submarine cable system operator GlobeNet will take fiber optics connection to Boa Vista, capital of Brazil’s northernmost Roraima state, passing the optical network through Venezuelan territory out from the city of Maiquetía. The Brazilian wholesale telecoms provider will also take fiber [...]
Seaborn Networks’ IP Network is Now Fully Operational Seaborn Networks Press Release October 25, 2019 Boston. October 25, 2019 - Seaborn Networks, a leading developer-owner-operator of transoceanic subsea fiber optic cable systems (Seaborn), announced today that its IP network, Autonomous System Number: 13786, is fully operational. The network builds upon the delivery and service success of Seabras-1, [...]
Crosslake Fibre Goes Live with New Toronto – New York Network Crosslake Fibre Press Release October 22, 2019 Toronto and New Jersey – Crosslake Fibre announces today that the first new fibre-optic cable constructed between Toronto and New York in almost two decades is complete and has entered commercial service. The diverse, ultra-low latency route [...]
Quintillion and ATLAS Space Operations Expand Strategic Data Infrastructure in the Arctic Quintillion Networks Press Release October 17, 2019 Partnership brings unprecedented availability, capacity, bandwidth and low latency to LEO satellites on multiple existing and planned fiber routes to major global internet exchanges ANCHORAGE, Ala.-- Quintillion Networks and ATLAS Space Operations today announced plans for [...]
Indonesia Announces Completion of East Palapa Ring Project By Fiber Optic Social Network October 16, 2019 Indonesian Government authorities on Monday, 14 October 2019 announced the completion of its ambitious fiber optic project (Palapa Ring Project) to connect the under-developed regions of the country’s east, including the restive region of Papua. The telecommunication network containing [...]
