Hong Kong Express Cable System Ready for Service HMN Tech Press Release September 13, 2021 Tianjin, China – HMN Tech announced that the world’s first 16 fibre pair repeatered submarine cable system, Hainan to Hong Kong Express (H2HE) has successfully completed the system commissioning and testing, and is now ready for service. H2HE connects Hainan [...]
Facebook and Amazon Hoping FCC Will Approve New Cable By David Shepardson August 15, 2021 WASHINGTON, Aug 13 (Reuters) - Facebook Inc (FB.O) and Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) have asked the U.S. government for approval to operate a new undersea data cable between the Philippines and California after China Mobile (0941.HK) agreed to exit the plan, a government agency said on Friday. [...]
Telxius’ Mistral Submarine Cable Is Ready For Service August 10, 2021 Madrid - Telxius, a leading global digital telecommunications infrastructure operator with an extensive submarine cable portfolio, has announced today that the new Mistral submarine cable is now ready for service. The Mistral system, which has been designed and built by SubCom, is a next generation high-capacity fibre optic [...]
Hawaiki Has Sold Hawaiki Submarine Cable To BW Group Press Release July 26, 2021 SINGAPORE / AUCKLAND - Hawaiki Submarine Cable Limited Partnership and International Connectivity Services Limited (“Hawaiki”) has today announced the sale of 100 per cent of the shares of the company to BW Digital Pte. Ltd., an affiliate of BW Group Limited, [...]
Africa Coast to Europe (ACE) Subsea Cable Is Now Live ACE reaches an estimated 450 million people, equivalent to 5.8% of the world’s population. 16 of the 19 countries connected are on African soil. June 30, 2021 The ACE submarine cable is now live and available for interconnection at three of Teraco’s data centres across [...]
Malbec Cable System Goes Live! By Natalie Bannerman June 13, 2021 June 10th saw the launch of GlobeNet’s new subsea cable system Malbec, connecting Argentina and Brazil. Inaugurated during a live virtual event, Eduardo Falzoni described the launch of the subsea cable system as a “major milestone in the digital transformation of Latin America” The [...]
Portugal Inaugurates EllaLink Cable System The 'EllaLink' optical cable connects Europe to South America By The Portugal News June 1, 2021 The Portuguese presidency of the Council of the European Union (EU) is today inaugurating an underwater cable that connects Portugal to Brazil. The 'EllaLink' optical cable connects Europe to South America and is deemed [...]
Malbec Cable To Connect Through Equinix DCs GloboNet chose the International Business Exchange Equinix SP2 and SP4 data centers to implement the cable that connects Argentina to Brazil May 5, 2021 Equinix, a digital infrastructure company, will provide data center services to Globonet, in order to connect the Malbec submarine cable system between Brazil and [...]
Quintillion To Connect To Equinix Seattle Data Center By Dan Swinhoe May 5, 2021 Quintillion’s new Arctic ground station in Alaska will be directly connected via fiber to Equinix SE2 International Business Exchange data center in Seattle. Completed in February, the Quintillion-ATLAS ground station is the highest-latitude satellite ground station on US soil. Located at [...]
DE-CIX Will Partner With EllaLink Paving a New Data Traffic Highway Across the Atlantic Ocean: DE-CIX and Ellalink Commit to a Strategic Partnership Press Release April 27, 2021 Lisbon/Madrid and Dublin - DE-CIX, the world’s leading Internet Exchange operator, and EllaLink, the express optical platform between Europe and Latin America, have signed a Memorandum of [...]