Japan-Guam-Australia South Cable System Ready for Subsea Installation RTI Press Release April 8, 2019 Singapore – RTI Connectivity Pte. Ltd. (RTI) announced today that construction of the Japan-Guam-Australia South Cable System (JGA South) is on schedule and will be commercially available by the end of the year. JGA South has an initial design capacity of [...]
Vocus Group Proposes Timor-Leste Link to NWCS Cable By Telecompaper March 6, 2019 The quality and price of internet access in Timor-Leste will only improve if the country reduces supply costs by building a submarine fibre optic cable. So said Michael Auckland, the national director of Australia's fourth largest telecom company Vocus Group. Speaking to [...]
Digital Realty Opens Fifth Data Centre in Australia and Acquires Land Parcel in Sydney for Further Expansion Digital Realty Press Release November 14, 2018 Significant demand drives growth of the Digital Realty Connected Campus in Australia SYDNEY, Australia /PRNewswire/ -- Digital Realty (NYSE: DLR), a leading global provider of data centre, colocation and interconnection solutions, announced [...]
INDIGO West Cable Lands at Perth Beach By George Nott, CIO Australia September 19, 2018 Work on the first section of the INDIGO West subsea cable is now complete, after it landed today at Floreat Beach in Perth. The 2400km cable runs from Christmas Island to Perth. Work on the second section of the cable, [...]
Vocus indicates possible cable fault in Sea-Me-We 3 between Perth and Singapore By Nico Arboleda September 4, 2018 Vocus said that an international circuit between Perth to Singapore has failed, revealing that it is being investigated by a local carrier. The network operator said there may be a cable fault on submarine telecommunications cable Sea-Me-We [...]
Vocus Switches On ASC Subsea Cable System By Corinne Reichert August 29, 2018 Vocus has announced switching on its $170 million Australia-Singapore Cable (ASC), with the telecommunications submarine cable system to be ready for service as of September 14. Until then, Vocus is "finalising its testing phase", according to new CEO Kevin Russell. "The Australia [...]
Equinix to Spend $15m on PE2 Data Center Fitout By Ry Crozier, iTnews August 23, 2018 Equinix is committing US$11 million ($15 million) to expand the PE2 data centre in Perth that it acquired from Metronode as part of a $1 billion deal at the end of last year. The data centre operator said it [...]
Superloop Revenue Doubles as Indigo Subsea Cable Nears Completion By Corinne Reichert August 21, 2018 The final splice of the Indigo subsea cable system is expected to take place in late December, Superloop has said, announcing an FY18 net profit of AU$7 million on revenue of AU$125 million. Superloop has announced its revenue more than [...]
Vocus Completes Australia Singapore Cable Laying By Chris Duckett, ZDNet July 23, 2018 The Australia Singapore Cable (ASC) has been laid, with the final splice made to the south east of Singapore, and is moving into "full configuration" mode, Vocus announced on Monday morning. CEO and managing director Kevin Russell hailed the work of his [...]
Hawaiki Transpacific Cable Ready-For-Service To Reshape Communications In The Pacific Hawaiki Cable Press Release July 20, 2018 Auckland, New Zealand - Independent telecommunications challenger, Hawaiki Submarine Cable LP today commenced commercial operations for its 15,000 km fibre optic deep-sea cable linking Australia, New Zealand, the Pacific and United States. The $US300 million Hawaiki Submarine Cable [...]
