Google is building a new submarine cable to connect the United States, the United Kingdom and Spain.
International network provider, Crosslake Fibre is undertaking a new subsea cable project, CrossChannel Fibre.
Eight companies have come together to build 2Africa, a subsea cable designed to serve the African continent and Middle East region.
The installation of an optical fibre submarine cable spanning the south Pacific has been approved at a crucial meeting of regional telecommunications leaders.
Ciena has completed an upgrade to the SEA-ME-WE 5 (South East Asia – Middle East – Western Europe 5) submarine cable system.
Google, in partnership with SubCom, has completed the installation of submarine cable uniting Chile and California.
Liquid Telecom Kenya has chosen Nokia to help upgrade its existing fibre network in order to support OTN/DWDM technology with an initial network capacity of 500G.
A new agreement between Telia Carrier and Telxius will combine transatlantic capacity from the MAREA cable system and Telia Carrier’s European backbone network.
The TeraWave SCUBA150 optical fibre from OFS Optics has demonstrated that it can enable transport of 300Gb/s over a 14,000km link.
Chilean telecom operator Gtd Teleductos S.A. has awarded Prysmian Group a new contract worth around €50 million to develop a turnkey repeaterless submarine cable system connecting Arica to Puerto Montt in Chile.
The plans for an economic recovery will undoubtedly need vast levels of public and private investment.
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While the Covid-19 crisis clearly impacted infrastructure deployment in Europe in 2020, it also undoubtedly reinforced operators’ mid-term FTTH ambitions
The all-important multi-vendor interoperability can only be achieved via industry collaboration, finds Keely Portway
2020 has shown standards are key to building the networks of tomorrow, and that’s something to be excited about, argues Bernd Hesse
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