Displaying items by tag: Submarine cable networks

Deepfake technology heads up the list of security concerns predicted for next year by Robert Le Busque, the Regional Vice President, Asia Pacific for Verizon Business Group.

Telecoms equipment vendor Nokia and Madrid-based fibre-optic infrastructure provider Islalink claim to have set a capacity-reach record for unrepeated transmission of 800Gbps over 330km with Nokia’s PSE-6s photonic service engine on Islalink’s IONIAN submarine network connecting Crotone, Italy, with Preveza, Greece.

An international consortium of companies have formed a joint corporation to work towards development of a submarine fibre optic system connecting Asia and Europe through the Arctic.

NEC has signed a long-term charter contract with Global Marine Systems Limited for an optical submarine cable-laying ship.

Southern Cross Cables is using SES Networks' O3b satellite constellation to improve communications between Nukunonu of Tokelau, Kiritimati Island of Kiribati and the rest of the world while it upgrades the Southern Cross undersea cable network.

The carrier-neutral Hawaiki submarine cable system connecting Australia, New Zealand, New Caledonia, American Samoa, Hawaii and Oregon in the US is set for final testing before its June 2018 service start.

Vocus Communications has officially launched the submarine cable between Australia and Singapore in Indonesia with partner company XL Axiata.

A new 15,000km transpacific submarine cable dubbed Hawaiki has launched, with the videos of the press event and subsequent "Responder" cable laying ship tour, definitely worth watching!

Interconnect specialist Megaport has announced new links for Hong Kong.

The Samoa Submarine Cable Company has inked a turnkey contract with Alcatel-Lucent Submarine Networks (ASN) to roll out a new submarine cable system connecting Samoa to Fiji.

Huawei and Huawei Marine have successfully hosted the 2nd Asia Pacific Submarine Networks Forum in Singapore, discussing the challenges of mapping a better connected area through submarine cable systems.

Huawei Marine, a joint venture company established by Chinese telco giant Huawei and Global Marine Systems, has been contracted to help build a national broadband transmission network to provide telecommunications services to major coastal  centres and islands in Papua New Guinea.

The Southern Cross Trans-Pacific Optical Research Testbed (SXTransPORT) dual submarine optical fibre links between Sydney and North America have been upgraded to 100Gbps.

New Zealand cable company Hawaiki Cable and SIL Long Term Holdings, the investment vehicle of Sir Eion Edgar, have signed an agreement to build the Hawaiki submarine cable system.

I haven’t personally noticed any slowdown in my Internet today, but if you have and you’re a direct or indirect iiNet customer, a cut submarine cable is the cause of your slow web woes.

Listed telecommunications provider Vocus Communications has purchased Telecom New Zealand's share of a cable connecting Perth and Singapore.

Asian regional submarine cable network and data centre operator Pacnet is to shed a third of its global workforce to save $US30m a year and will shed its residential ISP business and its wholesale voice business under a strategic transformation plan.