Infinera Breaks Real-time Subsea Spectral Efficiency Records with 6.21 b/s/Hz on 6,644 km MAREA Trans-Atlantic Cable Infinera Press Release September 26, 2018 Singapore - Infinera, provider of Intelligent Transport Networks, announced the successful completion of a series of record-breaking submarine field trials over MAREA, a 6,600-kilometer (km) submarine cable between Virginia Beach, Virginia and Bilbao, [...]
Hawaiki Selects Ciena to Boost Connectivity Across the Pacific Ciena Press Release September 24, 2018 AUCKLAND, New Zealand, HANOVER, Md., USA and SUNTEC CITY, Singapore — With nearly 99 percent of transoceanic data traffic traversing undersea cables, it is imperative for network operators to ensure their submarine cable investments remain capable of meeting their customers’ bandwidth needs. [...]
SMD Sign Contract to Supply QTrencher 500 Cable Maintenance ROV to TE SubCom Soil Machine Dynamics Press Release August 22, 2018 World leading subsea equipment design and manufacturer Soil Machine Dynamics Ltd (SMD) are pleased to announce the signature of a contract to supply a QTrencher 500 Cable Maintenance ROV to TE SubCom. The QTrencher [...]
Microsoft Deploys An Underwater Submarine-Like Data Center To Boost Internet Speeds By Ryan Brown, CNBC June 6, 2018 Microsoft has deployed a submarine-like data center into the waters off the coast of Orkney, a group of islands located off Scotland. The tech giant said Wednesday that it had sunk the 40-foot-long vessel from the European [...]
Seacom Upgrades Africa Subsea Cable System By African News Agency June 5, 2018 Pan African telecommunications company Seacom said on Tuesday it had upgraded its key submarine network system from its southern and eastern African coastline landings into Europe at a total capacity of 1.5 terabits per second, adding 500G of new capacity on the [...]
Erbium-Doped Fiber Amplifiers At AT&T Bell Labs: A Paced Odyssey By Emmanuel Desurvire Foreward by Josè Chesnoy May 21, 2018 Foreward Three inventions have made possible the advent of long-haul optical communications: fused-silica fibers, semiconductor lasers, and last but none the least, Erbium Doped Fiber Amplifier (EDFA). The EDFA is one of the most revolutionary [...]
GlobeNet Strengthens its Latin American Submarine Network with Ciena Ciena Press Release May 15, 2018 HANOVER, Md. — GlobeNet, a wholesale provider of telecom infrastructure in the Americas, has selected Ciena (NYSE: CIEN) technology to deliver 200G wavelengths along its 23,500 km fiber optic subsea cable system across the Americas. The deployment will help GlobeNet [...]
Ciena Upgrades Caucasus Online’s Black Sea Fibre Optic Network Ciena Press Release May 15, 2018 HANOVER, Maryland — Caucasus Online has selected Ciena (NYSE: CIEN) to enhance its Black Sea fibre optic network to realize an increase in data transfer capacity of up to 5 Tbps. By deploying Ciena’s GeoMesh Extreme submarine solution with high-density [...]
NEC Brings AI To Submarine Cable Networks NEC Press Release May 15, 2018 Tokyo, Japan and Princeton, NJ, U.S.A. - NEC Corporation (NEC; TSE: 6701) announced today successful transmission tests that took place over a commercial subsea cable measuring more than 10,000 kilometers using artificial intelligence (AI) and probabilistic shaping at a modulation of 64QAM. NEC, [...]
RCom-GCX, PrimeTel Strengthen Partnership To Upgrade Subsea Cable System By Muntazir Abbas, India Times May 8, 2018 NEW DELHI: Global Cloud Xchange (GCX), a subsidiary of Reliance Communications (RCom) and Cyprus-based telecom service provider PrimeTel Tuesday further enhanced their partnership with a 100Gbps upgrade to GCX’s HAWK subsea cable system branch into Cyprus. This network [...]
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