150 Years of Enterprise at Greenwich Enderby's Wharf Allan Green (top) and José Chesnoy (bottom) By Allan Green with Foreword by José Chesnoy July 24, 2018 Foreword Greenwich is famous for many good reasons, from its maritime history recalled by the presentation of the Cutty Sark, from the international adoption of the Greenwich [...]
Settling into Cruising Speed By Kieran Clark July 24, 2018 Regional Systems Outlook Last year was undoubtedly one of the most productive the submarine fiber industry has had since before the industry crash of the early 2000s. After a disappointing 2016 – which saw only 6 new systems and 35,000 kilometers of new cable – [...]
From the Conference Director By Christopher Noyes July 24, 2018 Ensuring the SubOptic 2019 Experience Creates Connections and Encourages Engagement In the new digital era conference attendee engagement is one of the key themes and is equally important as any other conference element to the conference management and planning industries. The human attention span is [...]
From The Programme Committee Keith Russel Shaw (top) and Stuart Barnes (bottom) By Stuart Barnes and Keith Russell Shaw July 24, 2018 Regional Systems, SubOptic and Globalization When the “Founding Fathers (and Mothers)” of our Industry gathered in Paris in 1986 none could have envisioned the tectonic shifts that have occurred since then. [...]
IOX Update By Arunachalam Kandasamy July 24, 2018 Connecting Mauritius And Rodrigues Island to South Africa and India Innovation in the business world is accelerating exponentially, with new, disruptive technologies and trends emerging that are fundamentally changing how businesses and the global economy operate. The Internet is one such technology which has changed the lives [...]
Irish Links By Derek Cassidy July 24, 2018 Becoming the Cog in the Wheel of International Connectivity When we talk about regional networks we usually think of small systems that loop around the coast or connect Islands to the mainland. However we can also look at them and understand that they can also be systems [...]
Connecting the European Single Market By Joensuu Jukka-Pekka July 24, 2018 Regional Systems in Europe Providing Cross-Connectivity And Redundancy to Meet the New Needs of Data Retention in the World of GDPR Background Finland has a unique position in the European Union with a central position in the Baltic Sea and also geographically connecting northeastern [...]
Virginia Beach: The Next Chapter By Hubert Souisa July 24, 2018 Increasing the Atlantic’s Resiliency, Stability and Capacity More than two years ago SemanticNet started working on the “Fibre Atlantic” concept – an open-access diverse fiber optic submarine cable system between Bordeaux, France and Virginia Beach. In our January 2016 article in SubTel Forum Magazine [...]
Spotlight on Asia Regional Cable Systems By Andrew Oon July 24, 2018 A Data Center Perspective It has been a roller-coaster ride over the past 20 years, which is almost one design lifespan of a cable system. In SubTel Forum Issue 100, Stephen Nielsen described the despondent state of the submarine cable industry in 2001, [...]
ARBR, the Argentina to Brazil Submarine Cable System Larry Schwartz (top) and Leigh Frame (bottom) By Larry Schwartz and Leigh Frame July 24, 2018 Completing the Regional Puzzle for Argentina Despite the huge increase in the number of new subsea cable systems installed and planned in recent years, regional customers across the globe [...]
