Submarine Fiber Optic Communications back issues from September 2008:
Submarine cable investment by region, 2006-2008 ($billions).
Sep 01, 2008 ... <Pre> Submarine Cable Investment by Region, 2006-2008 ($billions) Transatlantic, $0.0, 0% South America, $0.0, 0% Transpacific, $1.6, 48% Europe-Asia, $0.4, 12% Australia, $0.4,11% Caribbean, $0.2, 7% ...
Google working with consortium of carriers to build SJC submarine cable.(TOP NEWS)
Sep 01, 2008 ... Signaling its intent to pursue its submarine ambitions, Google is currently working with a syndicate of telecom carriers to construct an intra-Asia undersea cable system called Southeast Asia Japan Cable (SJC). Google had recently announced its decision to invest in the Unity trans-Pacific ...
KDN starts build-out of undersea fiber-optic cable termination point.(TOP NEWS)
Sep 01, 2008 ... Kenya Data Networks (KDN) said that it has commenced the build-out of a $105.23 billion termination point to deal with the massive traffic to be carried by the undersea optical fiber cable, which is currently under construction. The company has now become the first ICT firm to make ...
PT's affiliate to connect to WAFS undersea cable network.(TOP NEWS)
Sep 01, 2008 ... According to Macauhub, the Sao Tome & Principe government has cleared Sao Tome Telecommunications Company's plan of connecting its network to the West African Festoon System (WAFS) undersea cable network. The islands situated off the northwest coast in Gabon would get linked to the WAFS ...
Project notification review board paves the way for undersea fiber-optic cable in American Samoa.(TOP NEWS)
Sep 01, 2008 ... The Project Notification Review System Board of American Samoa has given its approval for land usage for a submarine optical fiber project. The board had conducted a study on the potential environmental impact of this project and finally gave its approval with certain ...
EASSy more than doubles its network design capacity.(NEW CABLES)
Sep 01, 2008 ... Alcatel-Lucent has signed a contract with the East Africa Submarine Cable System (EASSy) consortium to more than double the design capacity of the optical submarine cable network landing in East Africa. EASSy will now be able to deliver a regional capacity of 1.4 Tbps, the highest capacity ...
Main one cable system progressing on schedule.(NEW CABLES)
Sep 01, 2008 ... Main Street Technologies confirmed that Phase 1 of the Main One Cable System is progressing on schedule, following the company's acquisition of the first ever issued submarine cable system landing license in West Africa. Main Street Technologies awarded Tyco Telecommunications ...
ECI wins contract for Caribbean network.(CONTRACTS)
Sep 01, 2008 ... ECI Telecom, a global provider of networking infrastructure solutions, has announced that its 9000 Carrier Ethernet Switch Router (CESR) family and the XDM Multi-Service Provisioning Platform (MSPP) have been selected by Triton Telecom for a multi-million dollar network project spanning ...
Subsea 7 announces US$ 30m order from shell in Norway.(CONTRACTS)
Sep 01, 2008 ... Subsea 7 Inc, one of the world's leading subsea engineering and construction companies, announced that it has received a US$30 million call-off by A/S Norske Shell for installation work at the Draugen field in the Norwegian sector of the Northern North Sea. The project is a call-off under ...
Fugro EarthData awarded task order for U.S. National Guard Bureau.(CONTRACTS)
Sep 01, 2008 ... Fugro EarthData, Inc., has been awarded over US$1.9 million in multiple task orders by the U.S. National Guard Bureau (NGB) for updated mapping over thirty-one domestic military installations through 2009. The work, which includes orthoimagery as well as planimetric and topographic ...
Tiscali picks Hibernia Atlantic for Transatlantic wavelengths.(CONTRACTS)
Sep 01, 2008 ... Tiscali International Network (TINet), a carrier dedicated exclusively to the wholesale IP-MPLS market, has chosen Hibernia Atlantic's Transatlantic submarine and terrestrial cable network to deliver numerous 10-Gbit/sec wavelengths of capacity to and from Montreal, Dublin, London, ...
Telstra launches naming contest for new cable.(BUSINESS)
Sep 01, 2008 ... Telstra has announced a contest to name their new submarine cable linking Sydney and Hawaii. Telstra said there is no prize for calling it the "Big Cable" (a reference to Australia's other bigs--"Big Pineapple" on the Sunshine Coast, the "Big Banana" at Coffs Harbour and the ...
PPC-1 FCC license application approved.(BUSINESS)
Sep 01, 2008 ... The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has granted a Cable Landing License to PPC-1 Limited and PPC-1 (US) Inc. for the purpose of landing and operating a non-common carrier fiber-optic submarine cable system, the PPC-1 System, connecting Sydney, Australia, Piti, Guam and Mandag, ...
Verizon Business expands presence in India.(BUSINESS)
Sep 01, 2008 ... Verizon Business says it is significantly expanding its presence in India to support the direct delivery of advanced telecommunications services to multinational companies with operations in India, as well as to India-based multinationals. Following receipt of international and ...
TeliaSonera expands its IP network to Singapore.(BUSINESS)
Sep 01, 2008 ... TeliaSonera International Carrier (TIC) expands its extensive global backbone further into Asia and sets up its second point of presence in Singapore. Customers will benefit from the availability of high quality IP services and the ability to connect locally to one of the largest and ...
Pacnet expands footprint in China.(BUSINESS)
Sep 01, 2008 ... Pacnet has expanded its footprint in China with the launch of new connectivity solutions through its China equity joint venture (EJV) Pacnet Business Solutions Ltd, boosting connectivity between Japan and China. "We are delighted to be the first foreign-owned telecommunications ...
Verizon, Nokia Siemens Networks claim new record for 100G transmission.(TECHNOLOGY)
Sep 01, 2008 ... Verizon and Nokia Siemens Networks say they have taken a step closer to being able to transmit commercial traffic at a speed of 100Gbps. The two companies carried out a successful 100Gbps transmission on a single wavelength for more than 1,040 kilometers over field fiber, setting a new ...
Universidad Politecnica de Madrid and Alcatel-Lucent create a chair on broadband multimedia technologies.(PARTNERSHIPS)
Sep 01, 2008 ... Universidad Politecnica de Madrid (UPM) and Alcatel-Lucent have launched the new "Alcatel-Lucent Chair", enabling the students of the last courses of UPM's Telecommunication Engineering Technical School to select a subject on the most relevant technologies the new broadband multimedia ...
Stratos is first Inmarsat Distribution Partner to reach 10,000 BGAN activations.(PARTNERSHIPS)
Sep 01, 2008 ... Stratos Global Corporation, a provider of advanced mobile and fixed-site remote communications solutions, announced it has reached a milestone of 10,000 BGAN activations. Stratos is the first Inmarsat Distribution Partner to reach this impressive BGAN sales milestone. Stratos is ...
Verizon first to offer multinational customers TPE cable capacity.(SERVICES)
Sep 01, 2008 ... Verizon Business has announced that it is first to market with the Trans-Pacific Express (TPE) submarine cable network connecting the United States with Mainland China, South Korea and Taiwan. Verizon Business multinational customers with IP, data and voice communications traffic moving ...
Infonetics: optical network hardware sales jump 14 percent in 2Q.(MARKET INTELLIGENCE)
Sep 01, 2008 ... Communications market research firm Infonetics Research reports that worldwide optical network hardware sales got back on their upward track after the usual first-quarter seasonal decline, as total optical hardware revenue hit $4.1 billion in 2Q08, up 14 percent sequentially. ...
Ovum reports optical components revenues grew 5 percent sequentially in 2Q08, up 23 percent compared with 2Q07.(MARKET INTELLIGENCE)(Financial report)
Sep 01, 2008 ... Preliminary results from Ovum's quarterly optical components market tracking indicate that the optical components market posted its fourth consecutive quarter of single-digit growth with an increase of 5 percent sequentially. "Impressively, the market posted a 23 percent gain over the same ...