By Ciena Ciena® Corporation (NAS:CIEN) , the network specialist, and BT, one of the world’s leading communications services companies, today announced a series of pioneering trials over BT’s UK optical core network infrastructure. The successful trials in March 2013 included the transmission of 100, 200, and 400G, as well as an ’800G super-channel’, the last of which [...]
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Pentagon Requests $450M USD to Remodel Guantanamo?
By pakistankakhudahafiz The U.S. Defense Department asked Congress for $ 450 million USD for maintening and upgrading the Guantanamo Bay prison, which contradicts President Barack Obama’s promise to close the prison. This amount will be used to upgrade the military offices, connect a fiber optic submarine cable from Florida and maintain the facility fully operational, opened [...]
Submarine Cable Equipment Underdogs Prepare To Shake Up The Market
By Fierce Telecom This week, we take a look at five smaller providers in the submarine cable equipment supplier space, in the latest installment of The Contenders. The submarine cable systems market doesn’t get much attention beyond those within its specific telecommunications segment. With the exception of those times that a significant cable cut–such as [...]
Ericsson closes telecom cable manufacturing facility
(Reuters) – Ericsson announced on Tuesday plans to shut its telecom cable manufacturing facility in Sweden and would take a 500 million Swedish crown ($75 million) charge as a result. The company said it had given notice of a reduction of 354 positions. It said the market for copper cable had declined while fiber cable [...]
Federal Permitting Reform Initiative Continues to Ignore Submarine Cable Infrastructure
By Wiltshire & Grannis On May 17, 2013, the White House released a Presidential Memorandum, “Modernizing Federal Infrastructure Review and Permitting Regulations, Policies, and Procedures” (“Memorandum”), that directs the Steering Committee on Federal Infrastructure Permitting and Review Process Improvement (“Steering Committee”) to: (a) identify and prioritize within the next 60 days opportunities to modernize key regulations, policies, and procedures to reduce [...]
Global Provider, Hibernia Networks, Expands With CoreSite In Boston And New York
DENVER, May 13, 2013 /PRNewswire/ — CoreSite, a premier provider of network-dense, cloud-enabled data center solutions and the CoreSite Mesh, today announced that Hibernia Networks is expanding its relationship with CoreSite to include deployments in both Boston and New York. Hibernia Networks is a provider of global capacity solutions, providing submarine and terrestrial networks throughout [...]





