Subsea EMEA
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A number of subsea cable projects serving Europe are due to complete in 2024 and 2025 - here are profiles of nine of them. -
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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Telxius COO Cable business, Rafael Arranz speaks to Capacity about tower assets for 5G, their growth and recent partnerships, some of the current projects and the strategic priorities for the coming year.
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SEACOM is planning to double its lit capacity on its subsea segment and is currently in talks to become involved in a number of African cable system projects being planned by Google and other cable operators.
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The Government of Mauritania and EllaLink have signed an agreement to strengthen connectivity to Mauritania via the EllaLink submarine cable system.
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Sparkle, the first international service provider in Italy and a global operator, has announced the construction of Nibble, its new ultra-long-haul photonic backbone which will digitally connect Sicily with the major points of presence (PoPs) and data centres in Europe.
Forthcoming events
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Former Sparkle CEO Alessandra Talotta has joined the board of EllaLink, a subsea cable project designed to connect Latin America and Europe.
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Trials on the Marea cable between Virginia Beach and Bilbao have shown that transmission rates of 6.41b/s/Hz can push speeds to 400Gbps .
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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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GÉANT and Latin American research and education network RedCLARA has signed an Indefeasible Right of Use (IRU) contract with EllaLink for spectrum on its subsea cable system linking Europe to Latin America.
