Radius Oceanic Communications, Inc. (Radius) and the Cyprus Telecommunications Authority (Cyta) are pleased to announce the commencement of the POSEIDON project. POSEIDON is a high capacity undersea cable system that will provide advanced telecommunications facilities to the offshore oil and gas industry in the Eastern Mediterranean region. The POSEIDON system will extend for some 800 [...]
By Zambian Watchdog Zambia’s Zamtel has completed its fiber-optic connection to two submarine cables, the West Africa Cable System (WACS) and Sat-3, through Telecom Namibia in order to boost the country’s broadband capacity. Zamtel, the country’s only total telecom solution service provider, said it is now able to deliver 600Mbps of Internet capacity to the [...]
By Seaborn Networks Seaborn Networks announced today that, in response to significant customer demand, its Seabras-1 submarine cable will now provide the first-ever direct route between the commercial and financial centers of Brazil and the United States. Seabras-1’s new landing in the New York metropolitan area will connect directly to the landing in Sao Paulo. [...]
By The Daily Star The Indian government has asked Bangladesh for virtual transit so that it can connect Tripura with Paschimbanga and Chennai with cables and provide new voice and internet service routes. India, however, did not clarify anything technical or cost or commercial feasibility or even how the connectivity would be made, said a [...]
By Market Watch Corning Incorporated GLW -0.52% , the world-leading supplier of optical fiber, announced that FibreCo Telecommunications, a South African open-access network provider, is deploying Corning(R) optical fiber in its new ultra-high-speed, long-distance fiber optic network in South Africa. The optical fiber cable contains both Corning(R) SMF-28e+(R) LL and LEAF(R) optical fibers. Phase 1 [...]
Anne Look | Dakar Slow downloads and faulty Internet connections could soon become distant memories in West Africa. Two underwater fiber-optic cables stretching from Europe down the western coast of Africa are set to go online in mid-2012. The cables will bring faster, and likely cheaper, broadband Internet to nearly every country in the region. [...]
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(Reuters) – Ericsson announced on Tuesday plans to shut its telecom cable manufacturing facility in Sweden and would take a [...]
By Wiltshire & Grannis On May 17, 2013, the White House released a Presidential Memorandum, “Modernizing Federal Infrastructure Review and Permitting Regulations, Policies, [...]
DENVER, May 13, 2013 /PRNewswire/ — CoreSite, a premier provider of network-dense, cloud-enabled data center solutions and the CoreSite Mesh, [...]
By Juan O. Tamayo jtamayo@ElNuevoHerald.com Cuba has activated a branch of its submarine fiber optic cable that connects to Jamaica, [...]
By Market Wired Sea Fibre Networks (SFN), owner and operator of Europe’s most advanced sub-sea telecoms network, CeltixConnect, today announced the launch [...]
By BizCommunity Tunisiana and Orange Tunisia have announced the signing of a partnership agreement with Interoute, the owner operator of [...]
