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SEACOM, ETC Sign Undersea Cable Deal
TeleGeography
Ethiopian fixed line incumbent, Ethiopian Telecommunications Corporation (ETC), has inked a deal with SEACOM for an international backhaul link via Djibouti, Computerworld reports.
Topics: undersea cable, telecom, Seacom, telecommunications
38% of Undersea Cable Sold, Says Telecom Egypt
The Africa Report
Telecom Egypt, the country’s fixed-line monopoly, has sold around 38 percent of the capacity of its TE North undersea cable for $220 million, the firm said on Sunday.
Topics: telecom, Egypt, Africa, Telecom Egypt, telecommunications, undersea cable
East African Undersea Cable Lands in Kenya Ahead of Schedule
BusinessWeek
The East African Submarine System, a fiber-optic cable linking 20 African countries, landed at the Kenyan coastal city of Mombasa today, two weeks ahead of schedule, James Wekesa, the chief commercial officer of the West Indian Ocean Cable Co., said.
Topics: telecommunications, Africa, countries, telecom, undersea cable
Emergency Internet Control Bill Gets Rewrite
CNET
Sen. Jay Rockefeller alarmed technology and telecommunications firms last year when he announced a plan for the president to seize “emergency” control of the Internet. Now the West Virginia Democrat is trying again with a new version that aides hope will be seen as less extreme.
Topics: telecommunications, telecom, satellite, dark fiber
Google-Backed Undersea Cable Almost Complete
WebProNews
An undersea cable that Google helped finance is almost finished, according to a new report. Indeed, the completion of the Unity fiber optic cable, which will connect the U.S. to Japan, is supposed to be announced next week, and then Google and the company’s Asia-based users should start seeing the benefits soon after.
Topics: [...]
Windstream Double-Play Trims Line Loss
Light Reading
Windstream is offering consumers a $59.99 double-play offer with 3-Mbit/s Internet access and unlimited local and long-distance calling that has a “for life” price guarantee. As a result, Windstream CFO Tony Thomas told the Credit Suisse Global Media and Communications Conference today, broadband penetration is up and access line losses in 2009 were below [...]
Experts on Plans for Pacific Fibre Undersea Cable
Scoop.co.nz
As New Zealand only has one high-capacity link into the country today, I know major global data centre operators have not considered NZ as a suitable location, despite the fact that we have lower power prices, and greener power, than most of the other countries bidding. But we haven’t had redundant capacity and the low [...]
Liberty Exec Details D3’s ‘Sweet’ Economics
Light Reading
Liberty Global Inc. (Nasdaq: LBTY) is spending on average about $20 per home passed for its rapid network buildout of Docsis 3.0, the platform the operator is using to deliver downstream speeds of 100 Mbit/s or more in portions of Europe.
Topics: Docsis 3.0, Liberty Global
Tata Dedicates Undersea Capacity For World Cup
Fin24
A private telecommunications line will be set up during the World Cup soccer tournament to connect the international broadcasting centre in southern Johannesburg directly to Europe. Tata Communications will offer this international link in South Africa via the Seacom and SAT3 undersea telecommunications cables.
Topics: Qatar, ISP, undersea cable, telecommunications, broadband, telecom
Cable Breaks Out the ITV Drano
Light Reading
One big technical challenge for EBIF is ensuring that applications don’t get corrupted or dropped altogether as they travel through the networks and pierce through processors, multiplexors, and other devices that apps will encounter as they travel inside video transport streams.
Topics: EBIF
Level 3’s Rare Carrier Win All About Extending the Middle Mile
ConnectedPlanet
Count Level 3 as one of the few established telecom service providers to apply for – and this week win – federal broadband stimulus funding, with a pragmatic goal not of opening up broad new fiber vistas but rather extending its existing network and services where it makes business sense.
Topics: Level 3, carrier, telecom, [...]
Charter Passes 1 Million Homes With Docsis 3.0
Light Reading
Following an initial launch in St. Louis, Charter has made its 60-Mbit/s “Ultra” wideband tier available to about 1 million homes, Mike Lovett, Charter’s interim CEO, said on a conference call
Topics: Charter Communications, Docsis 3.0
New Fiber Platform Offered By Anova
RFPConnect.com
Lit, or managed, fiber services from traditional carriers have a relatively lower price point but unfortunately exhibit higher latencies and zero control in terms of route or equipment improvements. Anova’s OptiWave service was created on the premise of eliminating this dilemma entirely.
Topics: Anova, telecommunications, networking, Chicago, telecom
VIDEO: Undersea Cable Strengthens Hawaii, Tahiti Link
Big Island Video News
The 3,107 miles of undersea fiber optic cable, the first of its kind to connect the United states and French Polynesia, will allow Tahiti to access high speed internet. Officials hope it will dramatically improve communication services throughout all the islands of French Polynesia, (Bora Bora, Raiatea, Huahine, Moorea and Tahiti) allowing [...]
Force10 Networks To File For IPO
Light Reading
Force10 Networks Inc. is finally going public, one year after getting acquired by Turin Networks. Specifics such as the price range haven’t been determined yet, but Force10’s registration, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) today, lists $143.75 million as the maximum amount to be raised.
Topics: Force10 Networks
Seahorse-1 Pan-Caribbean Subsea Cable Schedule Changed
TeleGeography
The planned Seahorse-1 submarine fibre-optic cable linking Miami, Jamaica, the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico and potentially Cuba, has had its rollout schedule rearranged, BNamericas was told by Cobian International, the parent of the system’s developer Triton Telecom.
Topics: BNamericas, telecommunications, Cuba, telecom, Dominican Republic, undersea cable
Lisbon, Portugal Getting Gigabit FTTH
Light Reading
This morning the service here on site was averaging between 600 Mbit/s and 700 Mbit/s, and peaking at about 800 Mbit/s (according to an on-screen meter), which would put the number of end-user connections served by a 2.5-Gbit/s GPON port at a maximum of four. (Indeed, the demo booth here had four terminals up [...]
Has Google Found a Use for Its Dark Fiber?
Data Center Journal
Discounting conspiracy theories about Google attempting to take over the world, several possibilities concerning the company’s purpose in buying up dark fiber have been considered over the past half decade.
Topics: telecom, launch, USA, broadband, Google, dark fiber, telecommunications
Undersea Cable Coming to South Africa
Times LIVE
Telkom said in a statement that it was the landing partner for EASSy in South Africa and hosted one of the nine undersea telecommunications cables that will connect various parts of Sub-Saharan Africa to the rest of the world by 2011.
Topics: telecom, undersea cable, South Africa, Africa
Google’s FTTH: Does Huawei Win?
Light Reading
Google is notorious for demanding low prices and threatening to build the equipment itself if that demand isn’t met. (“There’s not a lot of love between systems vendors and Google,” Griliches says.) Huawei is famous for undercutting the competition on price. It would be an easy matchup.
Topics: Google, FTTH, Huawei, North America
