Submarine cable
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Sparkle has partnered with shipbuilding giant Fincantieri to develop advanced solutions for detecting and monitoring subsea cables. -
Sparkle has penned an agreement with the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV) to allow the research institute to see if its subsea fibre optic cables can help detect seismic events.
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Telxius has teamed up with Orange, and Setar to create a new high-capacity subsea cable in the Caribbean.
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Telecommunications provider Chorus and digital infrastructure company Datagrid are exploring the development of a 6,000-km trans-Tasman subsea cable, the Tasman Ring Network.
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Google broke ground on a new cable landing station in Fiji which will act as a hub to support international subsea cables that connect the island nation to the wider Pacific.
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GlobalConnect has confirmed it is addressing a network outage in Finland caused by damage to two separate internet cables, while assuring that no undersea cables have been affected.
Forthcoming events
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The new submarine cable system will utilise Sparkle's infrastructure to access to key Internet Exchange points in Europe
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Grid Telecom and Dawiyat Integrated will collaborate to build a new high-capacity system that will connect Greece with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
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Almost two weeks on from the undersea cable cuts that have blighted connectivity in 12 African countries, the Nigerian Communications Commission demands action.
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46 year-old Matera, lives with his wife and two sons in Sicily
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For this episode of The C-Suite Hotseat, senior reporter Saf Malik is joined by Steve Alexander, senior vice president and chief technology officer, Ciena.
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Submarine cables are all about connecting different parts of the world. As a historical hub between east and west, the Middle East region has long been a crossing point for the world’s undersea connectivity – particularly through Egypt, which runs many cables through its territory.
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Massive growth in connectivity demand in Asia has led to increased capacity requirements, and construction of submarine and subsea cables is growing to meet this demand. An estimated $2.6 billion worth of current and future submarine cable projects are planned for completion by 2025 – here are profiles of 12 of the most important.
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Orange, Medusa, Alcatel Submarine Networks (ASN) and Elettra Tlc will begin work on the Medusa Submarine Cable, aimed at boosting connectivity across the Mediterranean.
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California’s MOX Networks is to build a fibre network to connect a Pacific cable landing station owned by native American community.
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GCI says it has made the final subsea fibre splice for its AU-Aleutians Fiber Project, which connects a string of islands south-west of Alaska.
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Aqua Comms’ America Europe Connect-2 (AEC-2) cable has landed in Ireland, the subsea connectivity company has announced.
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A shortage of cable ships is hurting the subsea industry’s booming demand for new fibre routes to serve hyperscalers. Alan Burkitt-Gray investigates
