SEACOM Completes Acquisition of Hirani Telecom By Kenn Abuya, Tech Weez October 29, 2021 Pan-African telecommunications services provider SEACOM has announced that it has completed the 100% acquisition of Hirani Telecom’s metro fibre network. The network will be incorporated into SEACOM’s existing metro network in Nairobi and will be under its full control. Hirani Telecom [...]
From Cable Station to Data Center A New Approach to Connectivity By Derek Cassidy November 24, 2020 The Network Operator Over the last couple of months the telecommunications industry has lead a charge and has won the fight in keeping the world connected. I know this is their purpose however the communications networks never expected [...]
Connectivity Providers Are the Foundation to Adaptability, Business Continuity, and the Future By Gavin Rhea July 20, 2020 The significance of connectivity providers to normal life has never been as evident as it is today. Through the spread of COVID-19, we have all witnessed first-hand our society’s reliance on internet connectivity and associated applications to [...]
TM Restores International Capacity Lost Due to Submarine Cable Fault By Malay Mail April 11, 2020 KUALA LUMPUR, April 11 — Telekom Malaysia Bhd (TM) has managed to restore the international capacity lost on the Asia Pacific Cable Network 2 (APCN2) submarine cable fault ahead of the targeted deadline of April 20. In a statement [...]
Subsea Cable Sector Needs a New Financing Model: How a New Funding Approach Could Release Vital Capital By Steve Scott March 16, 2020 A boom in world-wide data traffic has sparked the biggest construction boom in subsea cable for two decades, with a string of new multi-million dollar high-speed data highways lighting up the seabed [...]
7 Questions With the Hon. Walter Roban By SubTel Forum March 16, 2020 The Hon. Walter H. Roban JP MP is the Deputy Premier of Bermuda and the Minister of Home Affairs since November 2018. He was previously the Minister of Transport and Regulatory Affairs from July 2017. Minister Roban is part of a leadership [...]
Government of Mauritania Sign Agreement to Deliver Connectivity on The EllaLink Submarine Cable System EllaLink Press Release July 8, 2019 Dublin, Ireland and Nouakchott, Mauritania – The Government of Mauritania and EllaLink are pleased to announce the signature of an agreement to strengthen connectivity to Mauritania via the EllaLink submarine cable system. A dedicated branching [...]
Trustpower Selects Hawaiki as Key Connectivity Partner Hawaiki Press Release May 15, 2019 AUCKLAND, New Zealand - May 15 2019 - Trustpower, one of New Zealand’s leading ISPs and power utilities, and Hawaiki Submarine Cable LP today announced the signing of an agreement to provide Trustpower with significant capacity on the Hawaiki submarine cable system. [...]
Building Global and Delivering Local By Chris Bayly July 24, 2018 How the Convergence of Subsea Cable and Terrestrial Infrastructure Serves the Demands of Both International and Regional Connectivity Cisco predicts that by 2020, 68 percent of all cloud workloads will be in public cloud data centres, 32 percent of the cloud workloads will be [...]