Grid Telecom and Islalink sign an Agreement for IONIAN IslaLink Press Release December 1, 2021 Grid Telecom and Islalink announce an agreement for the terrestrial backbone fiber extension of the IONIAN submarine cable linking Italy and Greece. The IONIAN submarine system will be extended with Grid Telecom’s optic fiber network from the landing point in Preveza to Athens and then on to Thessaloniki. The IONIAN [...]
Antarctica Will Receive Its First Submarine Cable Country Development, Subtel and the Regional Government of Magallanes sign an agreement to promote the deployment of the first Antarctic Submarine Cable It would be the first fiber optic network that connects the white continent with the rest of the world, whose potential extension would encompass the nearly [...]
Equinix To Act As Major Interconnection Point For Sub.Co's OAC Cable Will directly connect into Perth and Muscat data centres. By Kate Weber, IT News November 24, 2021 Equinix is set to act as a "strategic interconnection point" at both ends of Australia’s latest international subsea data cable system, the Oman Australia Cable (OAC). The [...]
Epsilon Expands Bilateral Partnership With SEAX To Seamlessly Connect Customers Across Southeast Asia SEAX’s regional PoP-to-PoP connectivity enables Epsilon’s customers and partners to seamlessly connect to fast-growing markets in the SEA region. Epsilon Press Release November 12, 2021 Singapore – Epsilon, a global connectivity provider, has expanded its partnership with SEAX, a neutral ICT infrastructure provider, [...]
Hawaiki Announces New Trans-Pacific Cable System Selects Moratelindo as Indonesian partner Hawaiki Press Release November 3, 2021 First and largest SDM cable to interconnect SEA, Australasia and N-A with 240 Tbps design capacity First cable directly linking Singapore, Indonesia, Australia and the US First international links for NZ’s South Island Moratelindo partnership delivers Indonesian landings [...]
New Intra-Asia Express Cable Announced By Alexander Wong: SoyaCincau November 3, 2021 During yesterday’s live debate on the cabotage issue, Transport Minister Datuk Wee Ka Siong has shared some “good news” for Malaysians with regards to digital connectivity. Despite the ongoing cabotage issue, he revealed that an upcoming Intra-Asia Express subsea cable project will connect Japan to Malaysia [...]
Converge Completes Submarine Cable Project By Faye Almanzan: The Manila Times November 1, 2021 Converge ICT Solutions Inc. completed its P6-billion domestic submarine cable project, which connects the Visayas and Mindanao region to its national fiber backbone. In a statement on Friday, the fiber internet provider said the 1,800-kilometer subsea cable will make its final landing in Coron [...]
Japanese Operators Team On Submarine Cable By Joseph Waring, Mobile World Live October 29, 2021 NTT Communications, KDDI, SoftBank Corp and Rakuten Mobile agreed to jointly build a fibre-optic submarine cable connecting Hokkaido and Akita Prefecture with a planned capacity of more than 160Tb/s. KDDI stated deployment of the 770km cable is expected to be [...]
Labrador, Iqaluit To Benefit From Planned Subsea Cable Plan would bring high-speed internet to Nunatsiavut and Innu Nation communities, Canada's north By Saltwire October 22, 2021 HAPPY VALLEY-GOOSE BAY, N.L. — Plans for a new line of undersea fibre-optic cable connections will bring fibre-optic internet to communities in Labrador. In an Oct. 18 release, CanArctic [...]
PEACE Submarine Cable Lands In Marseille: A Joint Effort Announced By Orange, PCCW Global, and PEACE Cable International Orange Press Release October 20, 2021 Announced back in September 2019, the new PEACE (Pakistan and East Africa Connecting Europe) submarine cable has now landed on the shores of Marseille. It will connect Europe to Asia via [...]