BROWSING: subsea cable

The two cables running between between Sweden and Estonia were mysteriously damaged on October 8th Earlier this month, two underwater telecommunication cables that run between Sweden and Estonia were damaged, and as the European countries are continues to investigate the cause of the damage, Estonia...

Meta’s 2Africa Pearls will connect to Airtel’s landing in Mumbai, extending the world’s longest subsea cable Even as Indian telco Bharti Airtel continues its aggressive 5G rollout across the country, the company is looking for other ways to expand its reach with digital transformation services for Indian...

Google has 20 announced subsea cable projects in operation or development across more than 200 countries and territories Google revealed plans to build the world’s first subsea cable to connect Asia and Canada. The Topaz cable, expected to be finished in 2023, will run from...

Once in Denmark, the route will connect into the wider Telia Carrier pan-European network Following a tender process, the Norwegian Communications Authority has chosen Noway’s Telia Carrier to build a secure diverse fiber route between Norway and the rest of the world. Telia Carrier will...

The subsea cable solution will use Retelit’s AAE-1 landing station in Bari, Italy. Retelit, a provider of infrastructure and data services, and global voice carrier BICS announced a joint subsea cable connectivity solution that will link Europe via Bari, Italy, to...

The first phase of the fiber project is starting in Alaska. Alaska-based Quintillion announced it is currently deploying Ciena’s 8700 Packetwave Platform to support the first phase of its 15,000-kilometer intercontinental subsea fiber system. The first phase of Quintillion’s network is set...

The subsea fiber system is expected to launch commercial operations in late 2018. Ireland-France Subsea Cable Limited announced a partnership with U.S. company Tiger Infrastructure Partners to finance and construct IFC-1, a submarine fiber optic cable system that will become the only direct...

Subsea fiber infrastructure expected to enhance connectivity between Australia and Asia. Australian subsea cable operator Trident Subsea Cable and Indonesian company Triasmitra entered into a strategic venture to own and operate a telecommunications fiber cable connecting Singapore and Indonesia. The two companies said...

The fiber system connects countries in Southeast Asia, the Middle East and Western Europe The SEA-ME-WE 5 Consortium completed deployment of a 20,000-kilometer subsea fiber infrastructure developed by a 16-nation consortium. The system is designed with 24 terabits per second of capacity on three-fiber pairs, said...

European telco Proximus is looking to reach 85% of enterprises and more than 50% of households with fiber. Belgian telecommunications operator Proximus said it expects to invest 3 billion euros ($3.13 billion) over the next 10 years to accelerate deployment of fiber across the...

Belize, a small nation in Central America, has been rapidly entering the digital age through a number of network deployments in partnership with Chinese information and communications technology vendor Huawei. The latest is a subsea fiber optic cable project set for completion in the third quarter...

Alcatel-Lucent signed on to help Camapana, a Singapore telecommunications infrastructure firm, build what it claims is the first private subsea Internet  cable into Myanmar. The new cable, called the Myanmar-Malaysia-Thailand-International Connection or MYPHIC, is said to deliver 300 gigabits per second capacity to the...