Nokia and Angola Cables Trial the First Direct Optical Connection Between USA and Africa with PSE-3 Chipset Nokia Press Release January 17, 2o20 The South Atlantic Cable System (SACS) provides direct, low-latency trans-Atlantic routing to better serve rapidly growing data consumption markets in Africa Nokia’s PSE-3 chipset maximizes capacity and performance to meet surging video, [...]
FLY-Lion3 Submarine Cable to Help IPGP Monitor Seismic Activity By Telecompaper January 16, 2020 Orange and members of the FLY-Lion3 consortium (Lower Indian Ocean Network), the Societe Reunionnaise du Radiotelephone and Comores Cables signed an agreement with the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (IPGP) to provide the IPGP’s Mayotte volcano and earthquake monitoring [...]
Seaborn Seeks Judicial Recovery for Seabras-1 Subsidiaries By Telecompaper January 9, 2020 Seaborn has filed a judicial recovery request for two subsidiaries responsible for the operation of the Seabras-1 submarine cable that links Sao Paulo with and New York, reports Teletime. According to the group, significant changes in the submarine telecom industry in recent years, [...]
Algeria Completes Mauritania and Spain Subsea Cable Link By Christian Fernsby, Post Online Media December 12, 2019 Algeria’s Minister of Post, Telecommunications, Technology and Digitalisation, Houda Imane Faraoun, has announced the completion of a cross-border fibre-optic network link with Mauritania, reports Agence Ecofin. The deployment of the 75km Algeria-Mauritania fibre section follows last month’s completion [...]
Vocus Completes Coral Sea Cable System for the Australian Government Vocus Press Release December 12, 2019 MELBOURNE, Australia - Vocus has celebrated the successful completion of the Coral Sea Cable System for the Australian Government. After final testing, the 4,700 km Coral Sea Cable connecting Sydney, Honiara and Port Moresby, and the 730 km Solomon [...]
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 [...]
