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		<title>Columbus Networks and Xtera Communications First to Unveil 100G in Pan-American Caribbean Region</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 13:22:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Xtera Columbus Networks, the leading wholesale communications service provider in the region, and Xtera Communications, Inc. (Xtera), a leading global provider of optical networking solutions, today announced that Columbus Networks is the first to bring 100G to the Pan-American Caribbean region by adding 100G to its existing high-capacity optical network in Panama. Columbus Networks [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SubOptic 2013 Sponsorship, Exhibition Booths and Hospitality Rooms Now Available</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 14:54:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By SubOptic SubOptic 2013 Sponsorship, Exhibition Booths and Hospitality Rooms Now Available The brochure and application form detailing the above information is now available to download from this website. Further information can be obtained from our Event Managers at suboptic2013@le-public-systeme.fr  Suboptic conferences regularly attract a large number of attendees. Our last event, held in Yokohama in 2010, attracted over 700 attendees, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New fibre-optic cable to benefit SKA project</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 13:31:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Engineering News About 70% of Broadband Infraco’s own capacity on the cable, which went live on Friday, would be directed to key scientific projects of national interest. The remaining 30% capacity would support other government projects that required international capacity, as well as commercial availability for smaller players in the industry.State-owned telecommunications group Broadband [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MTN, Vodacom consortium launches west Africa undersea cable</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 16:59:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Total Telecom South Africa&#8217;s MTN Group Ltd. said Friday&#8217;s launch of a submarine cable running from Cape Town to London will significantly increase broadband capacity along the western coast of Africa. Construction of the cable, known as the West Africa Cable System, started in 2009 and was jointly paid for by a consortium that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alcatel-Lucent wins contract to lay Tonga fibre-optic submarine cable</title>
		<link>http://www.subtelforum.com/articles/2012/alcatel-lucent-wins-contract-to-lay-tonga-fibre-optic-submarine-cable/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 12:15:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Fiji]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Matangi Tonga Online Alcatel-Lucent Submarine Network of France won the contract to lay a submarine fibre-optic cable system from Fiji to Tonga, which is expected to be in service by June 2013. The contract was signed this afternoon by Robert Bolouri the Interim Managing Director of Tonga Cable Ltd and Michel Bouvard the Vice [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Africa: Continent Calls for Harmonised Policies on Submarine Cables</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 16:32:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By All Africa Officials in charge of ICT from all over Africa have called for harmonised guidelines on how to access submarine cables that are anchored in various countries. They made the remarks Monday at the opening of a workshop held in Kigali. The guidelines were developed by several organisations in conjunction with the International [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Search Is On For Cable System To Connect BRICS</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 16:31:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Brics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[IT News Africa WASACE Cable Company has announced that it has begun the procurement process to select a cable system supplier for the construction of its undersea fiber optic cable system, which will create new and unique communication routes to support the communities around the Atlantic Basin. WASACE will develop, operate and build a new [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SubOptic 2013 Call for Papers now issued</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 14:28:52 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Conferences]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By SubOptic The &#8220;Call for Papers&#8221; for the premier event in our industry has now been issued. The conference which will be held in the Marriot Rive Gauche Hotel in Paris, will start on April 23rd, 2013 and last three days. It will be preceded by a series of master-class tutorials which will be held [...]]]></description>
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		<title>GBI Crosses the Mediterranean with the First 100G Repeatered Submarine Link from Xtera</title>
		<link>http://www.subtelforum.com/articles/2012/gbi-crosses-the-mediterranean-with-the-first-100g-repeatered-submarine-link-from-xtera/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 14:27:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.subtelforum.com/articles/?p=5364</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Xtera Gulf Bridge International (GBI), the Middle East’s first carrier neutral regional network, and Xtera Communications Inc. (Xtera), a leading global provider of optical networking solutions, announced what is believed to be the first commercial repeatered submarine cable system in service with 100G technology. Xtera deployed its multi-purpose Nu-Wave OptimaTM platform in a Submarine [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Seychelles set for its first underwater fiber-optic cable link</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 May 2012 00:14:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By eTurbo News Rich in tourism, culture and marine resources, the Island state of Seychelles will be connected to the rest of the world through submarine optic fiber cable to be laid from Tanzania’s capital city of Dar es Salaam after the arrival of the cable ship this Friday. Seychelles consulate in Dar es Salaam [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Planned Undersea Fiber-Optic Cable Projects in Arctic as Allegory for Changing Region</title>
		<link>http://www.subtelforum.com/articles/2012/planned-undersea-fiber-optic-cable-projects-in-arctic-as-allegory-for-changing-region/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 May 2012 00:12:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.subtelforum.com/articles/?p=5360</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By The Arctic Institute With all that’s going on in the High North these days, it’s easy to get fixated on one issue or another as the defining concern for the region: militarization, climate change, shipping routes, the list goes on. Sometimes, however, it behooves us to take a step back and clarify the basic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>West Africa: Bandwidth Cost to Drop As U.S.$650 Million Undersea Cable Goes Live</title>
		<link>http://www.subtelforum.com/articles/2012/west-africa-bandwidth-cost-to-drop-as-u-s-650-million-undersea-cable-goes-live/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 13:09:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By AllAfrica.com The cost of internet and data services is set drop drastically as the West Africa Cable System, a $650 million undersea cable goes live on May 11 in Nigeria and several African countries where it has landing points. WACS brought to Nigeria by MTN Nigeria spans the entire West African coast and terminating [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Main One Cable Company Upgrades Network Infrastructure Together With TE SubCom And Business Unusual Limited</title>
		<link>http://www.subtelforum.com/articles/2012/main-one-cable-company-upgrades-network-infrastructure-together-with-te-subcom-and-business-unusual-limited/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 13:54:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Main One Main One Cable Company announced today that it has upgraded the lit capacity on its undersea fibre optic cable system with an additional 20 Gbps between Lagos, Nigeria and Seixal Portugal, with deployment of an additional bank of 10 Gbps wavelengths ready for implementation on demand. This upgrade was necessary to meet [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WACS switch-on date confirmed</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 15:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By BusinessTech The management committee of the West African Cable System (WACS) announced in a press statement today (30 April 2012) that it would hold a launch event for the new cable on 11 May 2012. WACS is a 14,500km-long optical fibre submarine cable that aims to link Southern Africa, West Africa and Europe with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TEAMS Submarine cable hitch disrupts internet services in East Africa</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 14:59:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Coastweek.com The East African Marine Cable System (TEAMS) has confirmed that it is currently experiencing a major service interruption cutting off the bulk of internet access and international voice traffic to customers in the East African region. The interruption which began at approximately 13:30hrs (1030GMT) was noticed by the network maintenance centre at the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dhiraagu tests submarine cable after repairs</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 14:58:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Haveeru The testing of the Dhiraagu submarine cable installed between Sri Lanka and Maldives has begun after completion of the necessary repairs. The largest communication service provider in the Maldives suffered a serious blow after its submarine cable was damaged. The incident occurred on April 18 and had cut off internet connections from areas all over [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CTC Marine Projects, Trico Offshore and DeepOcean become one</title>
		<link>http://www.subtelforum.com/articles/2012/ctc-marine-projects-trico-offshore-and-deepocean-become-one/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 14:56:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By  Deep Ocean Group CTC Marine Projects Ltd., Trico Offshore Ltd. and Deep Ocean AS, all subsidiaries of DeepOcean Group Holding AS, today announced that they are rebranding and changing name to DeepOcean. “The move is more than a name change,” says DeepOcean Group CEO Bart Heijermans. “We will operate as one company offering our [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NCC approves second submarine cable link between Taiwan and China</title>
		<link>http://www.subtelforum.com/articles/2012/ncc-approves-second-submarine-cable-link-between-taiwan-and-china/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2012 11:29:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By International Law Office After approving Chunghwa Telecom&#8217;s application for the Kinmen-Xiamen Submarine Cable Deployment Project in September 2011 (for further details please see &#8220;NCC approves submarine cable link between Taiwan and China&#8221;), the National Communications Commission (NCC) further approved a submarine cable link between Taiwan and China&#8217;s Fujian Province on March 28 2012. Read [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nexans Stock Declines on Submarine-Cable Production Delay</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2012 11:27:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Bloomberg Nexans SA (NEX), the world’s second- biggest cable maker, fell the most in more than three years after predicting a drop in first-half earnings because of production delays at its submarine-cable plant in Norway. Nexans fell as much as 15 percent to 37.24 euros, the steepest intraday decline since February 2009, and was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Submarine Cable Upgraded, But Of No Use Yet</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2012 14:52:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By The Daily Star The increased capacity of Bangladesh&#8217;s lone submarine cable is yet to come to any use as the Dhaka-Cox&#8217;s Bazar backhaul link of the cable was not upgraded accordingly. The undersea cable has recently been upgraded to 85 gigabits per second from 40 gigabits before. Read more&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Vodafone bids for Cable &amp; Wireless</title>
		<link>http://www.subtelforum.com/articles/2012/vodafone-bids-for-cable-wireless/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2012 14:51:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By The Economist THERE is a certain Darwinian poetry that Cable &#38; Wireless Worldwide, a remnant of a once mighty telecoms empire based on telegraph wires and established in the 1850s, looks set to be eaten up by Vodafone, a contemporary telecoms industry giant born only in 1985. Even as late as 1999 C&#38;W (CWW’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>APTelecom Appointed as Pre-Sales Manager for Pacific Fibre</title>
		<link>http://www.subtelforum.com/articles/2012/aptelecom-appointed-as-pre-sales-manager-for-pacific-fibre/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2012 14:48:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By AP Telecom APTelecom, a facilities-based telecom consulting and service company specializing in emerging markets, today announced the addition of Pacific Fibre to its growing roster of submarine cable pre-sales consulting clients. As part of the  engagement, APTelecom will be tasked with managing a significant portion of the pre-sales efforts for Pacific Fibre&#8217;s soon-to-be-constructed subsea cable [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TE Subcom Completes Construction Of The TGN-EA (Jeddah) And TGN-Gulf Undersea Cable Systems For Tata Communications</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2012 18:57:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[TE SubCom, a TE Connectivity Ltd. company and an industry pioneer in undersea communications technology has completed construction of the TGN-EA (Jeddah) and TGN-Gulf undersea cables for Tata Communications. TGN-EA (Jeddah) connects Saudi Arabia, Egypt and India, while TGN-Gulf links Oman, India, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Bahrain. Both TGN-EA (Jeddah) and TGN-Gulf are high-capacity, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Submarine cable problem disrupts communication</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2012 13:17:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Haveeru A technical problem with the submarine cable installed between Sri Lanka and the Maldives last night, has caused major communication issues including the disruption of telephones and internet service provided by telecom giant Dhiraagu. Internet service was cut off at about 10.30 last night from various areas of the Maldives and had slowed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>i3 Africa calls for BRICS submarine cable cash</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2012 14:16:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By ZD Net i3 Africa, a company which has business links with the i3-Group, has called for investment from telecoms companies in a 34,000km submarine cable project to link the BRICS countries. The BRICS Cable project aims to link Russia, China, India, South Africa, and Brazil to the US via a submarine cable. i3 Africa [...]]]></description>
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