Subsea cable project news stories

"We continue to evaluate multiple technical options to further increase capacity and reduce the cost/bit of the networks."

NEC Corporation announced that it has been awarded a major new submarine cable contract.

AJC tripled capacity on its 12,700-kilometer subsea cable system by upgrading their Infinera DTN-X network with Infinera’s fourth generation optical engine.

NEXTDC’s customers will be among the first to take advantage of APAC’s shortest submarine cable route between Sydney and Singapore.

This will be Australia’s first ever direct optical path from Sydney to Singapore, passing through Indonesia on the way.

Orange and PCCW Global are confident the cable will substantially reduce network latency between the world's three most populated continents.

Google's new cable connecting the US to the French Atlantic coast will be first for more than 15 years, and Orange will be the landing partner.

Following a partnership with Ciena, the subsea cable's transmission speeds have increased 53 percent.

A number of heavyweights are behind the cable linking Australia to Southeast Asia, including Google, Singtel, Telstra, and AARNet.

The edge computing and cable landing company has received orders in two new Pacific countries, bringing the total to five in the last 18 months.

Competition is opening up in the Internet traffic market with this being the first high speed connection to NZ that Spark doesn't have a stake in.

The tech giant has invested in a huge private subsea cable project across the Atlantic Ocean to expand its global cloud network.

The cloud giant’s investment in the JGA cable system adds to its portfolio of existing cable investments, which include HK-G and SJC subsea cables.

The SSSFOIP submarine cable project was tendered in two phases, both of which were awarded to Huawei Marine.

The international capacity deployed by companies such as Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and Amazon rose 14-fold between 2012-2016.

​Infinera has released an industry-first with its latest addition to the company’s family of Infinite Capacity Engines.

“This includes a commitment to investing in additional capacity on the Australia to US route.”

Vocus has selected ST Telemedia’s Singapore data center, STT Tai Seng, to be the point of presence (PoP) for its new submarine cable.

Havfrue, which is the Danish word for mermaid, will be built by TE SubCom and is expected to come online by the end of 2019.

The data centre provider has also revealed it is in the final stages of negotiation to further expand the Shenton Park facilities with the addition of adjacent land at the site.

What does it mean for Ireland? Paling asserts massive connectivity that puts the nation up there with other leading international locations.

The North American expansion will connect thirteen major telecoms and cloud hub cities in the US and Canada.

The subsea cable has 40 Tbps of capacity that will extend more than 6,500 kilometres providing a paradigm shift in Africa's comms sector.

It took the world a couple decades to reach a zettabyte in annual traffic, but Cisco projects we’ll more than double that by 2020.