Displaying items by tag: Submarine cables

Qatari telecoms provider Ooredoo has signed an agreement with Alcatel Submarine Networks (ASN) to build a submarine cable connecting seven countries in the Gulf Cooperative Council (GCC) region.

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.

Chilean state infrastructure fund Desarrollo País and Singapore-based H2 Cable have issued a request for proposals to begin construction of the proposed 15,000 km Humboldt Cable, which will be the first to connect Latin America, the Asia Pacific and Oceania.

TPG Telecom and Infinera (NASDAQ: INFN) announced a technology upgrade of TPG Telecom’s submarine cable connecting Australia and Guam to boost cable capacity and improve reliability using Infinera’s ICE6 800G solution.

Independent submarine capacity provider, Southern Cross Cables and Spark NZ, which looks after its cable assets in New Zealand, celebrated a key milestone, landing the New Zealand segment of a new high-capacity cable originating at Takapuna Beach.

TeleGeography, a global telecommunications market research and consulting firm, has launched its 2021 Submarine Cable Map, sponsored by Telecom Egypt.

Fibre and network solution provider Vocus has completed the building of its 12th fibre cable crossing of Sydney Harbour, providing additional capacity and redundancy for over-the-top service providers and data centre operators.

Tech entrepreneur Bevan Slattery has started a new Australian company called SUB.CO that will shortly commence building the only submarine cable directly connecting continental Australia and the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region.

The Japan-Guam-Australia South subsea cable system (JGA South) has been landed at Sydney's Narrabeen Beach.

Queensland’s Sunshine Coast is set to get its first direct international data and telecommunications connection to global markets following the completion of a cable landing station at Maroochydore as part of the region’s international broadband network.

Construction is now underway on the $6.6 million cable landing station, the major land-based facility for the $35 million Sunshine Coast International Broadband Submarine Cable network.

Data centre operator NextDC has sealed a deal for APAC network provider Superloop to connect the new Indigo subsea cable system to its data centres in Perth and Sydney.

A new international submarine cable contract has been agreed between Queensland’s Sunshine Coast Council and telecoms network operations company RTI-C Connectivity, with claims the cable will deliver Australia’s fastest telecommunications connection to Asia and second fastest to the US.

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.

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!

US-based subsea fibre optic solutions provider Xtera has been awarded a contract by the Defence Information Systems Agency, an agency of the US Department of Defence, to build a new regional submarine cable system.

Queensland's Sunshine Coast Council has called for tenders to undertake a feasibility study on delivery of an international broadband submarine cable which would link the region directly to global communications systems in Asia, the Pacific and the United States.

Interconnect specialist Megaport has announced new links for Hong Kong.

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

Singtel, SubPartners, and Telstra have entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to build a new international submarine cable, APX-West, connecting Perth and Singapore.