NJFX and Telxius Ecosystems are Booming – Increasing Global Connectivity Options with First-Ever Dual Cable Landing Station Terrestrial Connection NJFX Press Release October 14, 2019 Windstream connects Wall, NJ to Virginia Beach Supporting over 500 Terabits per Second of Transmission Capacity Wall, NJ and Madrid, Spain – NJFX, the only Cable Landing Station (CLS) colocation [...]
Angola Cables Partners With AmLight ExP for REN Linking Florida With Africa By Telecompaper October 4, 2019 Angola Cables and Florida International University's Center for Internet Augmented Research and Assessment (CIARA) have signed an MoU on joint development of a research and education network connecting Africa, the US and Latin America. The AmLight Consortium is [...]
MainOne Lands Submarine Cable in Cote D’Ivoire MainOne Press Release October 2, 2019 MainOne has finally landed its submarine cable in Grand Bassam, Cote D’Iviore, which is the final leg of the ongoing expansion to reach Senegal and Cote D’Ivoire. The Grand Bassam landing which follows the recent completion of the landing in Dakar Senegal [...]
Telstra and Spark Ink Deal for New Tasman Cable By Rob O'Neill, New Zealand Reseller News October 1, 2019 Spark and its fellow Southern Cross Cable shareholders have inked agreements and received regulatory approval for Telstra to become a 25 per cent shareholder. Telstra will also become an anchor customer of the new Southern Cross [...]
Seacom’s 1TB Fibre Link Between Joburg, Cape Town Goes Live By Admire Moyo, ITWeb September 30, 2019 Pan-African undersea cable operator Seacom has lit up a 1TB fibre line connecting Johannesburg and Cape Town. This was revealed by Byron Clatterbuck, CEO of Seacom, in an exclusive interview with ITWeb on Friday. The fibre link was [...]
Broadbased Communications, Dolphin Telecom Ink Deal on Wholesale Internet Distribution By Telecompaper September 24, 2019 Broadbased Communications, an open access metro fibre network operator, has signed a memorandum of understanding with Dolphin Telecom, a member of the African Coast to Europe (ACE) submarine cable system consortium and the operator of the ACE landing station in [...]
Omantel Launches a Dedicated International Network Operation Centre to Enhance Global Wholesale Customer Experience Omantel Press Release September 10, 2019 Muscat, Sultanate of Oman – Omantel, a wholesale world-leader in ultra-low latency networking, has launched a dedicated International Network Operation Centre (INOC) in Oman. INOC enables Omantel to meet customer experience key performance indicators (KPIs) [...]
Vocus Rolls Out Network Upgrades, Adds Hawaiki Capacity By CIO New Zealand September 4, 2019 Vocus has added substantial volume of Hawaiki cable capacity to its network, and invested millions in network upgrades. Mark Callander, chief executive of Vocus NZ and Wholesale and International Australia, says the Hawaiki deal strengthens the company’s network and complements [...]
MainOne Says Cable System Will Land in Senegal in September, Cote d'Ivoire in October By Telecompaper August 30, 2019 MainOne has confirmed the scheduled landing of the MainOne submarine cable systems in Senegal in September and Cote d'Ivoire in October, reports CommunicationsWeek. The Cable Landing Stations (CLS) in Dakar and Abidjan are complete and ready [...]
Vodafone Calls for Price Cuts on Tasmanian Subsea Cables By Ry Crozier, ITNews August 21, 2019 Vodafone has made a play for lower internet transmission costs to and from Tasmania by asking the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission to review premiums currently chargeable on the route. The call for a review was made in a [...]
