Southern Cross Cables, which gained early notoriety in the submarine cable race as the only international submarine cable system that provides service to New Zealand, has completed its 100 Gbps optical transmission trial.
Although the 10…
Pacific Fibre, having recently decided to sever its alliance with Pacnet, has revealed that ANZ, Credit Suisse and First NZ Capital will be its main financial backers for its submarine cable system.
The new network will connect Australia to the United …
Pacific Fibre is ready to invite vendors to build its Pacific Cable System and has issued an Invitation to Tender to qualified submarine cable network suppliers.
Interested vendors have until mid-May to respond, and Pacific Fibre said that contract neg…
The 16-member consortium-led South East Asia-Middle East-Western Europe 4 (SEA-ME-WE 4) submarine cable system has turned to Alcatel-Lucent (NYSE: ALU) and Ciena (Nasdaq: CIEN) for their latest expansion project.
Under the terms of the contracts, Alcat…
Main One, the operator of a 6,900 km submarine cable system that provides connectivity along the West Coast of Africa from Portugal to Nigeria with a day-1 link to Ghana, has completed 100 days of operation of the first phase of its network.
In service…
Pacnet and Pacific Fibre have teamed up to build the Pacific Fibre submarine cable system that will connect Australia, New Zealand and the U.S.–the latest in a string of new submarine cable systems. Estimated to cost $400 million, the Pacific Fibre Cable will consist of two fiber pairs that will carry 64 wavelengths. Initially, the [...]
Now that’s fast. During this week’s SubOptic trade show, UK-based Apollo Submarine Cable System (SCS) and Alcatel-Lucent (NYSE: ALU) demonstrated the ability to transmit 3 Tbps across the Atlantic Ocean via 72 40 Gbps channels. Conducted over a distance of 6,211 km on Apollo’s North Cable system, which links the U.S. and the U.K, Apollo [...]
Seeing growing demand from multinational enterprise customers, Verizon Business (NYSE:VZ) is yet again expanding its European network and laying a foundation to activate the Europe India Gateway (EIG) submarine cable network system. Included in its new European network upgrade cycle are three main initiatives: expanding the European Ultra Long Haul (ULH) network; adding more MPLS nodes [...]