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 consortium for Africa-1, a new submarine cable system linking South Africa, the Middle East, Pakistan and Europe, have signed a Construction and Maintenance Agreement (C&MA) for the new system.
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The future of Reliance Communications (RCom) and its subsea unit, Global Cloud Xchange (GCX), was thrown into confusion today when India said No to a spectrum deal.
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Telecom Egypt is partnering with a new company, Fiber Misr, for subsea services in Egypt and the region.
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Telstra is to buy a 25% stake in the Southern Cross cable network and will use “substantial capacity” in the new Southern Cross Next subsea cable.
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PCCW Global has teamed up with Orange to jointly land the 12,000km-long Pakistan & East Africa Connecting Europe (PEACE) cable in Marseille, France.
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Alcatel Submarine Networks (ASN) and Italy’s Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucelare (INFN) have signed a new contract for the roll out of a submarine cable infrastructure for INFN’s submarine network, hosting an underwater multi-disciplinary laboratory incorporating a high-energy neutrino telescope, the largest one in the Mediterranean.
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The Pacific state of Papua New Guinea has decided to keep its deal with Huawei to build a fibre network, in the face of Australian pressure to cancel.
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Nexans has supplied Indonesia’s PT Mora Telematika Indonesia (Moratelindo) with 915km of subsea cables to build a new connection linking Jakarta with Surabaya.
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SAEx International and Alcatel Submarine Networks will commence desktop study, permitting and survey activities for a new 25,000km subsea cable network linking Asia, South Africa and the Americas.
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A new subsea cable linking the remote African islands of Sao Tome and Principe with Equatorial Guinea has been launched.
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TE SubCom, the subsea cable division of TE Connectivity, is to be acquired by an affiliate of Cerberus Capital Management (Cerberus) for $325 million in cash.
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Flexenclosure has received an order from Interchange for two eCentre cable landing stations, to be deployed in Vanuatu and the Solomon Islands early next year.
