Farice, a company fully owned by the Icelandic government, currently owns and operates two submarine cables linking Iceland to Northern Europe, has announced that the IRIS Sub-Sea Telecoms Cable System connecting Galway to Iceland and onwards to Denmark and the Nordics, on existing Farice networks is now in its final phase of implementation. In 2019, […]
Teraco, one of Africa’s largest providers of interconnected data centre platforms, is now an integral connectivity and interconnection point for Google’s Equiano subsea cable. Equiano starts in Europe and runs along the West Coast of Africa, between Lisbon in Portugal and Cape Town in South Africa, with branching units along the way that can be […]
Telxius, a leading digital telecommunications infrastructure operator, has teamed up with NJFX, a carrier-neutral Cable Landing Station (CLS) colocation campus in Wall, New Jersey, to give customers on-demand access to redundant subsea cable infrastructure across the Atlantic and Latin America. This collaboration allows Telxius to provide its customers with fully diverse global solutions through submarine […]
Gavin Faulds – Regional Sales Head-MEA, Sterlite, tells us how hyperscale data centres require reliable, high-bandwidth components to power their network’s physical infrastructure and discusses how investment in the UAE data centre space compares to the global picture. Gavin Faulds is a distinguished business development and marketing leader who has worked in Telecommunications, Oil & […]
C&W Networks, a wholesale telecommunications service provider, is leveraging Ciena’s GeoMesh Extreme to upgrade its CFX-1 (Colombia-Florida Express) and EWC (East West Cable) submarine cable networks to deliver advanced broadband and IP services of up to 400Gb/s. These network upgrades will help address the soaring bandwidth needs of C&W Networks’ telco and Internet Service Provider […]
A number of subsea cables are currently under construction in Africa. CEO, Corridor Africa, Matone Ditlhake, explores the benefits of subsea cables and how they can be used to embrace Digital Transformation. Subsea cable connectivity is the key to accelerating Digital Transformation in Africa. Google recently launched its U$1 billion Equiano cable, a connection between […]
euNetworks Fibre UK Limited (euNetworks), a Western European bandwidth infrastructure company, has deployed a new ultra-low latency route between Basildon and London in the UK that connects the ICE data centre to Interxion LON1 & 2: A Digital Realty Company, and onwards to Slough. These are critical locations for financial markets. The new route is […]
FiberSense and SX announce expansion of alliance with deployment of monitoring and protection capability on new NEXT submarine cable between Australia, New Zealand, USA and the Pacific Islands. Deep-tech fiber sensing company FiberSense and critical infrastructure owner Southern Cross Cable Network have announced a further expansion of the subsea cable monitoring capability in FiberSense’s DigitalAsset […]
NEC Corporation has been contracted by Seren Juno Network Company to build a trans-Pacific subsea fiber-optic cable connecting California with Chiba prefecture and Mie prefecture in Japan. The JUNO Cable System will provide the largest data capacity between the US and Japan, spanning a total distance of approximately 10,000km, and is expected to be completed by […]
stc expands complete digital eco-system with cable to EU. stc group’s MENA Hub is to build the East to Med Data Corridor (EMC) undersea and land fibre-optic data cable that will link Europe with Asia, with Greek partners. stc’s MENA Hub with this new project shows the nature of its ambition to provide ever-increasing global […]
