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Fiber optic cable linking Cuba to Jamaica active

By Juan O. Tamayo jtamayo@ElNuevoHerald.com Cuba has activated a branch of its submarine fiber optic cable that connects to Jamaica, giving it greater bandwidth and a backup in case the main leg to Venezuela is not available, according to a U.S. company that monitors global Internet traffic. Doug Madory, senior analyst at Renesys in Maine, [...]

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Vickie Hamah Urges Maritime Authority to Protect Submarine Cables

By Joy Online Deputy Minister of Communication, Vickie Lakshmi Hamah has called on the Ghana Maritime Authority to protect the several submarine fibre optic cables that have been landed on the shores of Ghana to provide better telecom and internet service nationwide. She made the call at the launch of the newly landed ACE (Africa [...]

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Africa Coast To Europe Submarine Fibre-optic Cable Inaugurated In Accra

By Government of Ghana The inauguration of the Africa Coast to Europe (ACE) submarine fibre-optic cable landing station in Ghana and the opening of the Accra station has taken place n Accra. ACE, a 17,000 kilometre-long cable stretching from France, through Portugal in Europe, to South Africa, connects 23 coastal countries, including Ghana, directly, and [...]

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Africa Gains In Connectivity With Submarine Deals

By Telecoms.com The African continent became more connected this week as global telecoms network exchange Epsilon Telecommunications interconnected with both the SEACOM and West Africa Cable System (WACS), giving the company undersea cable connectivity that circumnavigates Africa. Epsilon specialises in managed network services, and said it is seeing growth in Africa for its outsourced network [...]

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Alcatel-Lucent To Help Ensure Continuity Of Broadband Services In Africa By Signing Maintenance Services for West Africa Cable System

By Alcatel-Lucent Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) and the West Africa Cable System (WACS) consortium have signed a contract for the maintenance of more than 9,000km of the WACS system linking South Africa to Portugal.  In commercial service since May 2012, WACS interconnects 13 African countries, unleashing a new wave of broadband capacity on [...]

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Africa Coast to Europe Consortium and Alcatel-Lucent Further Strengthen Broadband Continuity In Africa With Maintenance Service Agreement

By Alcatel-Lucent Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) and the Africa Coast to Europe (ACE consortium have signed a contract for the maintenance of more than 6,300km of the ACE system linking Africa to Portugal.  In commercial service since December 2012, ACE interconnects today 15 African countries, seven of which has been connected to the [...]

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BT and Ciena Light World’s First 800G Super-Channel

By Ciena Ciena® Corporation (NAS:CIEN) , the network specialist, and BT, one of the world’s leading communications services companies, today announced a [...]

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, [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

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, [...]

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