FSMTC Awards Contract to Xtera to Upgrade Hantru1 Pohnpei, Federated States of Micronesia and Allen, Texas January 15, 2021 Xtera, Inc., a provider of innovative subsea fiber optic solutions, announces a new contract with FSM Telecommunications Corporation (FSMTC). FSMTC is the premium telecommunications service provider for Pohnpei, Kosrae, Chuuk, and Yap in the Federated States [...]
Telecom Egypt provides Google with a TransEgypt meshed solution and Mediterranean capacity to Europe Telecom Egypt Press Release Cairo, 05 January 2021 Full Press Release Telecom Egypt, Egypt’s first integrated telecom operator and one of the largest subsea cables operators in the region, signed an agreement with Google to provide Google with the first of [...]
Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd. realizes the world's first mass production of an optical fiber having an ultra-low transmission loss of 0.14 dB/km. The company will start its commercial supply in January 2021. By Sumitomo Press Release December 18, 2020 Optical fiber serves as a backbone infrastructure supporting global information and communication society. In order to [...]
Fugro has opened a new state-of-the-art remote operations centre (ROC) in Abu Dhabi, which is already delivering successful remote and autonomous solutions to clients in the Middle East and India (MEI) region. Fugro Press Release December 9, 2020 The new ROC in Abu Dhabi is the latest addition to Fugro’s global network of ROCs, which now consists [...]
Ciena Makes Waves on Australian Submarine Cable By Mike Robuck, Fierce Telecom November 4, 2020 SUB.CO, along with its Australian entity APX Partners, has tapped Ciena for an upgrade to its Indigo submarine cable that connects Perth and Sydney to Singapore. SUB.CO and APX Partners will use Ciena’s Hosted Manage, Control and Plan (MCP) software [...]
Infinera Boosts Spectrum Capacity on West African MainOne Submarine Cable for Orange Infinera Press Release July 27, 2020 Sunnyvale, Calif. – Infinera (NASDAQ: INFN) announced today that Orange deployed spectrum capacity with Infinera’s submarine solution on its MainOne submarine cable, a new network built to provide large-scale international capacity to support the development of a [...]
Google Says It Might Be Possible to Detect Earthquakes, Tsunamis With Submarine Cables By Krishna SinhaChaudhury, Times Now News July 17, 2020 According to Google's experiment using one of its subsea fibre optic cables, it could be useful for earthquake and tsunami warning systems. Is it possible to detect earthquakes with submarine cables? Well, Google [...]
GÉANT Awards Infinera Contract to Deploy 600G Transmission Technology to Interconnect Pan-European Research and Education Community Infinera Press Release July 14, 2020 Sunnyvale, Calif. – Infinera (NASDAQ: INFN) announced today that GÉANT, Europe’s leading collaboration on network and related infrastructure and services for research and education, selected Infinera’s industry-leading 600G transmission technology for its next-generation pan-European [...]
Sparkle Illuminates Its U.S.-Chile Submarine Cable with Ciena’s WaveLogic 5 Sparkle Press Release July 13, 2020 Rome / Hanover - Sparkle, the first international service provider in Italy and among the top ten global operators, and Ciena (NYSE: CIEN), a networking systems, services and software company, announce the upgrade of Sparkle’s 10,476km next-generation fibers on [...]
Asia-Africa-Europe-1 Consortium Deploys Infinera to Double Capacity on Intercontinental Cable System Infinera Press Release May 26, 2020 Sunnyvale, Calif. – Infinera (NASDAQ: INFN) announced today that Asia-Africa-Europe-1 Consortium (AAE-1), one of the largest consortium cable systems in the world today, has recently completed a significant upgrade with Infinera to boost capacity on its subsea network [...]
