By The Age Australia’s submarine fibre-optic links to the world may not be fully utilised at the moment, but more are being built to cater to our insatiable appetite for data and content. The online feast – shown recently by Bureau of Statistics data revealing record downloads in the last three months of 2012 – [...]
Sidera Networks to Acquire Capacity on Seaborn Networks’ US-Brazil Cable
By Seaborn Networks Seaborn Networks announced today that Sidera Networks will be making a long-term, capacity purchase on Seaborn’s US-Brazil submarine cable system. Seaborn Networks’ cable system, Seabras-1, is a new 32 Tbps submarine cable that will be the first direct route between Sao Paulo, Brazil and the United States. The system also will have [...]
Southern Cross Cable Future Proofs Network with Ciena Upgrade
By Ciena Ciena Corporation, the network specialist, today announced it was selected by Southern Cross Cables, an independent Australasian bandwidth wholesaler that owns and maintains a trans-Pacific network, to expand its subsea cable network. To meet growing demand for high-bandwidth services and applications like video and cloud computing, which is now pushing its needs beyond [...]
Main One, SEACOM Join Forces to Offer Capacity Between Nigeria and South Africa Immediately
By Main One Main One and SEACOM have interconnected their West and East African Cable Systems to launch capacity services from PoP to PoP, from a STM-1 level and above. This partnership extends the Main One and SEACOM networks to create a system that offers connection between any SEACOM and Main One PoPs all around [...]
OTEGLOBE more than doubles the capacity provided to Turk Telekom for its international connectivity
By OTEGLOBE Turk Telekom, the Turkish incumbent, more than doubled the capacity provided by OTEGLOBE, the international wholesale arm of OTE Group (the Greek incumbent), for satisfying its increasing needs for connectivity to the International Internet Exchanges More specifically from around 100Gbps that OTEGLOBE provided to Turk Telekom, the capacity is upgraded to 250Gbps through [...]
EASSy to double capacity
By SubTel Forum EASSy is planning to boost its lit capacity in 2011 according to My Broadband News. Â Chris Wood, CEO of WIOCC and Co-Chair of the EASSy Management Committee, today announced on behalf of the EASSy submarine fibre-optic cable Management Committee that the EASSy system will be upgraded in 2011, more than doubling the [...]





