Tuesday, 17 January 2017 09:05
Hawaiki transpacific cable well on its way to mid-2018 completion
New Zealand-based Hawaiki Submarine Cable LP and TE SubCom, a TE Connectivity Ltd company specializing in subsea communications technology, announced on January 16, the completion of the route survey for Hawaiki, the 14,000 km transpacific cable system scheduled for completion in mid-2018. The cable will link Australia and New Zealand to the mainland United States, as well as Hawaii, American Samoa, and potentially other South Pacific islands. Cable and repeater manufacturing for the system continues unabated at SubCom’s Newington, N.H.…
Thursday, 12 January 2017 08:37
Qatar set to enjoy the world’s most technologically advanced fan experience
In preparation for the mega sports events Qatar is set to host, and which are set to attract millions of visitors, the country is rapidly developing public-private partnerships for the construction of connected stadiums and the enhancement of national team competitiveness, youth development, technology and communications infrastructure. Enterprise application software company SAP, German record football champion FC Bayern Munich and Qatar’s Aspire Academy have announced that Qatar is set to enjoy the world’s most technologically advanced fan experience thanks to…
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Thursday, 12 January 2017 08:15
SEA-ME-WE 5 subsea cable is complete – developed by a 16-nation consortium
The SEA-ME-WE 5 Consortium announced the completion of the 20,000-kilometer subsea cable infrastructure developed by a 16-nation consortium. The SEA-ME-WE 5 subsea cable system, spanning over 16 countries from Southeast Asia to Western Europe, is a technological breakthrough which marks a global communications milestone. It is designed with a capacity of 24 Terabits per second on 3-fibre pairs, fully capable of accommodating the future demand of data from other bandwidth-intensive applications. The SEA-ME-WE 5 submarine cable’s advanced 100Gbps technology is…
Thursday, 12 January 2017 07:54
New ‘Brexit-1’ transatlantic cable connects US to EU avoiding UK
A new transatlantic cable which avoids the UK has been announced between Europe and the United States as the “chaos around Brexit” continues to grow. Named ‘Brexit-1’, the cable will link Marseille, France, to New York, crossing the Strait of Gibraltar. The project was announced by telecom expert and entrepreneur Sunil Tagare, who first developed the concept of a fiber-optic link around the globe (FLAG) back in 1989. Now owned by the Global Cloud Xchange, today FLAG extends to 28,000…
