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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Giuseppe Sini, the head of Retelit International, has been appointed chairman of the AAE-1 management committee.
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US authorities are set to block the Hong Kong part of a new cable connecting Los Angeles to Asia because of security fears.
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Capacity speaks with Iñigo García del Cerro Prieto, Chief Executive Officer (CEO), UFINET, about some of their recent challenges and opportunities, and his forecast for the industry going forward.
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Capacity shares 5 key stories from around the world making headlines today!
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Two cables cut near Suez in early January are now back in service.
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Ciena has won a contract to upgrade the nine-year-old Europe India Gateway (EIG) subsea cable, which runs 15,000km from the UK through the Mediterranean to the UAE and India.
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PCCW Global and PEACE Cable International Network will collaborate on extending the Pakistan East Africa Connecting Europe (PEACE) submarine cable system to southern Africa.
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The demand for submarine cable capacity is soaring. For the period 2015-2019, submarine fibre design capacity on major routes has increased at a CAGR of 32%, including upgrades and new system builds. Can we build new cables fast enough? Should we try to squeeze more capacity out of existing cables? If we do build new cables, can we increase the capacity beyond what is possible today?
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Budi Satria Dharma Purba, CCO of Telin talks to Capacity Media about Telin's unique offering, it's global assets, and how the company is working to meet the growing demand across Asia.
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Work has officially commenced on the 700km Englandcable connecting Norway with the UK.
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Flexential has teamed up with Seaborn Networks to expand its FlexAnywhere offering via the Seabras-1 Latin American subsea cable.
