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: broadband, telecommunications, Qatar, ISP, undersea cable, telecom
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, telecommunications, carrier, [...]
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, Chicago, telecom, networking
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 [...]
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: Cuba, undersea cable, telecom, Dominican Republic, BNamericas, telecommunications
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: dark fiber, telecommunications, telecom, Google, USA, launch, broadband
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: Africa, South Africa, telecom, undersea cable
Zayo Bandwidth Lights Low-Latency Fiber Route
PR Newswire
Zayo Bandwidth announced that it has deployed a low latency route between major carrier hotels in New York and Chicago. The route, which was built on Zayo Bandwidth’s operated network, was deployed in order to support algorithmic trading requirements for financial and carrier customers.
Topics: telecommunications, Chicago, Zayo Bandwidth, telecom
So, That’s What All of Google’s Dark Fiber Was For
O’Reilly Radar
What is becoming very clear is that Google wants to have a finger in, if not own, most of the pie when it comes to how consumers and business access their information.
Topics: Google, telecommunications, dark fiber, telecom
15,000 KM Long Undersea Cable To Land In Gibraltar
Panorama
A consortium of 16 telecommunications companies, including Gibtelecom, have signed an agreement to construct the ‘Europe-India Gateway’, a submarine cable that will span 15,000km from the UK to India following the UK-India route of 130 years ago. Gibraltar will be one of the landing points for the cable.
Topics: India, Europe, telecom, telecommunications, Gibtelecom, Gibraltar
Main One Undersea Cable Nears Completion
Nigerian Compass Newspaper – …all the news. all the time
Still basking from the excitement that attended the completion of Glo 1 undersea cable at the twilight of last year by Nigeria’s second national operator, Globacom, Main One Cable Company has announced the commencement of the final laying of its high capacity fibre optic cable from [...]
Vodafone Qatar, GBI Sign Cable Landing Agreement
MarketWatch
Gulf Bridge International (GBI), the Middle East’s newly established, privately owned submarine cable operator, is announces that Vodafone Qatar, Qatar’s rapidly growing new mobile operator, will provide a landing station for GBI’s cable in Qatar.
Topics: Middle East, telecom, Gulf Bridge International, telecommunications, Qatar
Taiwan Strait Undersea Cable Coming
What’s on Xiamen
The project, which will be jointly carried out by China Telecom and its Taiwan counterpart Chunghwa Telecom, will start construction soon and is expected to be completed and put into operation by year’s end. The cable will be laid under the Taiwan Strait to link the mainland’s Xiamen city and Taiwan’s outlying Kinmen [...]
Supercomm Is Dead?
Light Reading
The 2010 Supercomm, slated for the week of Oct. 25 in Chicago, is being canceled, a source from a would-be exhibitor tells Light Reading.
Topics: telecom
High speed internet headed to Unalaska through Asia-Europe fiber optic link
KIAL
The route will go from Japan through the North Pacific, stop in Unalaska, go up the western coast of Alaska to Prudhoe Bay, then through the Northwest …
Topics: telecom, Europe, Japan, telecommunications, Asia
