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According to Angola Cables, the Monet cable system has been completed and fully operational as of May 8, 2018. The Monet cable system spans 10556 km, connecting Boca Raton, Florida to both Fortaleza and Santos, Brazil. The 6-fibre-pair Monet cable has an initial design capacity of greater than or equal to 64Tbps.
EdgeConneX® announced recently that Seaborn Networks ("Seaborn") has selected its Buenos Aires Edge Data Center Edge Data Cener® (EDC) as the Point-of-Presence (PoP) in Argentina for Seaborn's ARBR submarine cable. Interconnection with Seaborn's new ARBR submarine cable linking Argentina and Brazil will provide cross connect opportunities for EdgeConneX customers.
Following the launch of its Marseille Hub in 2017, Orange International Carriers continues to enhance its network connectivity and will now offer a direct connection between Marseille and Penmarch. This new terrestrial cable allows Orange to open up unique access between Asia, the Middle-East and West Africa, offering improved service, redundancy and security.
Telecom Egypt announced on May 10, 2018 that its Board of Directors approved two strategic decisions to increase its return on investment, and provide the liquidity to facilitate the implementation of its business plan.
RETN recently announced the completion of an upgrade of its TRANSKZ Europe-Asia terrestrial route running through Kazakhstan. Due to the recent upgrade to 100G, RETN became the only European provider to deliver a fully owned high-speed terrestrial connectivity solution between key markets in Europe and Asia (Hong Kong, Tokyo, Seoul).
EllaLink announced on Monday receipt of an Intent to Award for a €25 million contract with GÉANT and RedCLARA on behalf of the BELLA Consortium. This award is for a Capacity Purchase on the EllaLink submarine cable, a new state-of-the-art transatlantic system. The EllaLink cable system, providing 72 terabits of telecoms capacity between Spain, Portugal and Brazil, will be ready for service in 2020.
Angola Cables announced at ITW 2018 that it can now offer its customers customized amounts of capacity on the MONET subsea cable system with Ciena’s GeoMesh Extreme Spectrum Sharing capability. Angola Cables can reliably and securely offer highly differentiated virtual fiber pairs, which are dedicated and upgradeable portions of overall optical spectrum, to end-users over a shared physical fiber pair.
Seaborn Networks announced on Saturday the appointment of David Zimmer as Seaborn's Chief Sales Officer. As Seaborn's new CSO, Dave will be responsible for all of Seaborn's direct sales, channel strategies and inside sales. Dave is also being added to Seaborn's board of directors.
The South Atlantic Inter Link (SAIL) is an ambitious 6,000-km submarine cable system that will connect Kribi, Cameroon with Fortaleza, Brazil. Scheduled for completion by Q3, 2018, SAIL brings together some major names in an ocean-spanning partnership designed to boost connectivity and economic activity across two continents. David Nkoto Emane, General Manager of Cameroon Telecom (CAMTEL), believes that the scheme’s main challenges can be overcome with the right mindset, strategies, and technologies.
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Multiple 100Gbps wavelengths on following segments of SJC cable system are available
Xtera®, the system supplierfor the ARBR project, announces today that Seaborn Networks ("Seaborn"), a leading developer-owner-operator of submarine fiber optic cable systems, has selected its C+L band design for the system between São Paulo and Buenos Aires. ARBR utilizes the advanced technology of Xtera in order to meet the growing capacity requirements of Internet Content Providers on this crucial route. The ARBR system will allow for direct onward connectivity to New York, via Seaborn's Seabras-1 system, thereby providing a lower latency route between the commercial and financial centers of Buenos Aires, São Paulo, and New York.
Cloud technologies are transforming how business is being done in Asia Pacific. With organizations across industries turning to cloud to cut costs, streamline operations and enhance services, the conversation among the region’s IT decision-makers has rapidly shifted from “why should I migrate?” to “how fast can I migrate?” This accelerating take-up follows a global trend: IDC estimates that customers will spend US$554 billion on cloud computing and related services in 2021, more than double the level of 2016.
This article is part two of the first article that looked closely at the subsea cable landscape across Africa. It concluded that nearly all the countries where economic progress and telecom liberalization is evidently gaining momentum are served by two or more subsea cables has created a vibrant landscape for Enterprise Network Services to flourish with a bouquet of connectivity options at competitive price for enterprise customers.
The first direct subsea fibre-optic cable system that will connect SA to Brazil, and eventually to the US, is set for commercial launch in 2020, according to Seaborn Networks COO Andy Bax.
The independent submarine cable company, which operates the most direct subsea system between Brazil's Sao Paulo and New York in the US, last year announced plans to build a route that would be Africa's first direct connection to the US.
Telekomunikasi Indonesia International (Hong Kong), Ltd ("Telin Hong Kong"), a subsidiary of PT. Telekomunikasi Indonesia International, ("Telin") has launched its most current Data Center called neuCentrIX HK-1 in Itech Tower 2, Hong Kong. The ceremony was remarked by the ribbon cutting done by Director of Carrier & International Business Telkom, Abdus Somad Arief and CEO Telin, Faizal R. Djoemadi on April 12th 2018.
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