SubTel Forum Call for March 2021 Finance & Legal Issue Articles February 12, 2021 In my capacity as Publisher of SubTel Forum Magazine (www.subtelforum.com), I sincerely hope this email finds you and those you care about safe and well. Submarine Telecoms Forum Magazine's March 2021 issue theme is "Finance & Legal" and we are inviting [...]
SUBMARINE CABLE HUBS AROUND THE WORLD By Patrick Faidherbe, Laurent Campagne, Georges Krebs and Jean Devos February 3, 2021 What is a submarine cable hub? A submarine cable hub is essentially a point where submarine cables interconnect with each other. It is a location where submarine cables very often terminate or, at least, extend a [...]
Preparing Infrastructure for Additional Subsea Cables in Virginia Beach By Greg Twitt January 26, 2021 Virginia Beach is located on the Eastern Seaboard of United States, and is ideally situated in the Mid Atlantic for accommodating Subsea Cables, and is the host of three of the fastest subsea cables located in the Telxius Cable landing [...]
THE OPEN ROAD TO SUBMARINE CAPACITY Managing Optical Power Levels in Open Submarine Cables By Geoff Bennett January 26, 2021 The submarine network market is experiencing unprecedented demand growth, and it has even seen a boost from the changes in our working patterns brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic. A major trend over the past [...]
A GLOBAL OUTLOOK AS PROJECT ‘KOETE’ CONTINUES TO GO ‘BEYOND’ A First Of Its Kind US$1.5 Bn Technology Ecosystem Being Developed By Peter Bannister & Gary Kennedy January 25, 2021 In line with Forum Magazine’s theme of ‘Global Outlook’ let us tell you a little about Perth in Western Australia where we live and work [...]
POLITICS OR PLANNING: Which is Shaping the Network of the Future? By John Tibbles January 25, 2021 Introduction Just under a year ago at Subnetwork’s World Europe (Forum?) in London I met a long time American colleague recently returned from PTC, I held out my hand to shake only to be told with a big [...]
PUBLISHER OF SUBSEA CABLE NEWS USES ARCGIS FOR INDUSTRY ANALYSIS AND INTERACTIVE MAP PRODUCTION By Jim Baumann January 22, 2021 Republished with kind permission by Esri The first transatlantic telegraph cable went live in 1858. Using Morse code, messages were transmitted at a speed of roughly 2 minutes per character. During the succeeding years, hundreds [...]
SUBMARINE CABLE DESIGN LIFE LESSONS: A Case Study for Operating the Italy Greece-1 Repeaterless Cable System Beyond the Design Life By Brian Crawford January 22, 2021 When UNIFI COMMUNICATIONS (UNIFI) completed its acquisition of WIS TELECOM (WIS) during 2016, the transaction included an existing submarine cable between Italy and Greece, known as the Italy Greece-1 [...]
Data Centers: ‘Carbon Processing Units’ and Green Solution Providers? Do data centres & ICT stand in the way of global environmental goals, or are they already enabling our green future? Derek Webster says it’s time to look at the facts By Derek Webster January 21,2021 “When I went to school, I had books and access [...]
THE CARRIER GUIDE TO 2021: Traffic, Technology and Unsung Heroes By Mattias Fridström January 21, 20201 According to the Chinese Zodiac, 2021 is the Year of the Ox. In Chinese culture, oxen are considered to be honest and earnest. They are determined and stubborn, but also low-key and don’t seek praise. This often hides their [...]
