A Message to the PTC Community Pacific Telecommunications Council Announcement March 23, 2020 To our PTC Community, Connections. This word embodies who we are and what we do at Pacific Telecommunications Council (PTC). This time more than ever, the entire world is coming together and connecting in a way that we never imagined. The global [...]
Project Koete: To Go Beyond! By Peter Bannister and Jerry Kawajiri January 19, 2020 Koete is a Japanese word that literally means “to go beyond”. Perth on the west coast of Australia is the country’s gateway to Asia Pacific and the geographical location of Project Koete. The project concept and design not only address the [...]
NTT’s MIST Subsea Cable to Connect Singapore with Myanmar and India By Harry Baldock, Total Telecom December 17, 2019 The $400 million construction project will deliver 240 Tbps and support 400 Gbps wavelengths Japanese communication giant NTT has announced its intentions to build an enormous subsea network spanning from Singapore to Chennai and Mumbai, as [...]
OPIC to Support World’s Longest Subsea Telecommunications Cable Overseas Private Investment Corporation Press Release November 5, 2019 Infrastructure will improve digital connectivity and embrace high-quality standards across Southeast Asia and the Pacific BANGKOK — The Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC), the U.S. Government’s development finance institution, announced that it plans to work with Trans Pacific [...]
Lighting Up the Pacific John Hibbard (top) and Paul McCann (bottom) By John Hibbard and Paul McCann July 22, 2019 Even the Smaller Countries Will Have a Submarine Cable 1. Introduction There are 22 small island countries and territories in the Pacific Region (the so-called PICs), a region which covers an area of [...]
Superloop Links Region as Ultrafast, Reliable Fibre-optic Network By South China Morning Post May 28, 2019 Telecommunications in Asia-Pacific will never be the same again as an out-of-the-box idea from an Australian telecoms company sets to forever change how businesses in the region communicate information. While local players focus on building up their infrastructure within [...]
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. [...]
International Connectivity in the Pacific By George Samisoni July 24, 2018 Fiji and Regional Subsea Cable System Initiatives Digital connectivity through ICT integrates the Pacific Island countries with the rest of the world. One of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) of the United Nations is the building of reliable, sustainable and resilient infrastructure to [...]
TE SubCom Signs South Pacific Marine Maintenance Agreement To Maintain 51,000 km Of Telecom, Power Cables By Lightwave June 4, 2018 TE SubCom, a TE Connectivity Ltd. company, said that it has signed the South Pacific Marine Maintenance Agreement (SPMMA) with 14 cable operators in the South Pacific region to maintain over 51,000 km of [...]