Submarine cable

Orange, Medusa, Alcatel Submarine Networks (ASN) and Elettra Tlc will begin work on the Medusa Submarine Cable, aimed at boosting connectivity across the Mediterranean.

California’s MOX Networks is to build a fibre network to connect a Pacific cable landing station owned by native American community.

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.

Aqua Comms’ America Europe Connect-2 (AEC-2) cable has landed in Ireland, the subsea connectivity company has announced.

A shortage of cable ships is hurting the subsea industry’s booming demand for new fibre routes to serve hyperscalers. Alan Burkitt-Gray investigates

A new submarine cable maintenance vessel will join the fleet of Nokia’s subsea cable operation, Alcatel Submarine Networks (ASN), on Friday.

The US$350 million Southern Cross NEXT submarine cable that will connect Sydney, Auckland and Los Angeles has been granted provisional acceptance.

A US$5.7m dispute between the government of Tonga and satellite company Kacific is delaying moves to provide internet and phone services until the islands’ subsea cables are restored.

Cinia has teamed with Far North Digital to build a fibre optic cable station that will link Europe and Asia through the Arctic.

Southern Cross Cable Network (SX) has completed the marine lay portion of its new Southern Cross NEXT (SX NEXT) cable branch into Kiritimati, Kiribati.

CrossChannel Fibre, the Canadian-owned fibre company, has completed the landing of the first UK-to-France subsea cable in the English Channel for more than 20 years.

Crosslake Fibre’s new connection across the English channel began its journey from England to France this morning.

Djibouti Telecom is ramping up the capacity of the Djibouti Africa Regional Express 1 (DARE1) network with Ciena, helping to increase digitisation in East Africa.

Total international bandwidth more than quadrupled between 2016 and 2020, to exceed 2 Pbps.

The new Europe-to-India cable that Aqua Comms will manage will be the first of a number of new subsea investments by the company’s owner, Digital 9 Infrastructure.

TeleGeography has identified more than US$8 billion in new subsea cable investments over the next three years in the new version of its submarine cable map.

A new subsea cable, IONIAN, is being constructed by IslaLink and Elettra.

Q&A interview with Şükrü Kutlu, chief executive officer, Türk Telekom International.

The global pandemic has accelerated the already massive demand for bandwidth as consumers intensified their use of streaming services and enterprises migrated to cloud collaboration platforms. This whitepaper outlines what strategies and technologies MNOs and telcos should consider to drive success in view of these latest capacity trends.

With Capacity Latam 2021 upon us, we heard from Rafael Arranz, Chief Operating Officer at Telxius Cable Business, about the Tannat and Mistral cables, partnerships, Covid-19 impacts, and what's on the horizon at Telxius

Cairo, 04 January 2021: Telecom Egypt, Egypt’s first integrated telecom operator and one of the largest subsea cables operators in the region, signed an agreement with Google to provide Google with the first of its kind layer three meshed solution on multiple Telecom Egypt’s redundant and resilient Egypt crossing network infrastructure.

The English Channel is home to the busiest shipping route in the world, windfarms, and hundreds of unexploded bombs – they’re just some of the reasons why nobody has put a new subsea cable there in 20 years. But that’s all about to change. Melanie Mingas gets the details from Pioneer Consulting’s Iain Ritson

Angola Cables CEO António Nunes has been promoted to the board of the company, just over a decade after the government of Angola invited him to join the venture.

Avelacom has launched a new Chicago to Tokyo back-up route, linking two major financial centres and allowing for “robust trading systems among banks, exchanges and trading firms”.