Pacific Carriage Limited Inc. (“PCLI”), owner of the Southern Cross Cable Network in the USA and the US landing party for the Southern Cross NEXT cable (“SX NEXT”), announced on Tuesday (July 20) the landing of the Southern Cross NEXT cable (“SX NEXT”) at the HMB IX facility in Hermosa Beach, California.

According to Equinix, CrossChannel Fibre will connect to Equinix data centres LD4 in London and PA7 in Paris, via landings in Brighton and Veules-les-Roses. CrossChannel Fibre will be the first subsea fiber-optic project laid across the English Channel in nearly 20 years and is due to be ready for service in Q4 2021.

GO announced on Tuesday (July 13^th 2021) an investment of €25 million in a 3rd submarine cable, which has been named as ‘LaValette’. This forms part of the global PEACE System (Pakistan East Africa Connecting Europe) project – a multi-million-euro connectivity effort which consists of a submarine cable emulating the old oriental silk route, connecting countries across the globe on its way from Asia to France.

LONDON, United Kingdom, July 5, 2021/ -- Liquid Technologies (www.Liquid.Tech) and Facebook announced a partnership to build an extensive long haul and metro fibre network in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) that is expected to improve internet access for more than 30 million people and help meet growing demand for regional connectivity across Central Africa.

According to Interxion, Crosslake Fibre will enable direct interconnection from Interxion's Paris Campus to the CrossChannel Fibre System, which is expected to be operational by the end of the 2021.

Auckland, New Zealand, June 29, 2021 – Independent submarine capacity provider, Southern Cross Cables Limited (Southern Cross) and Spark NZ, which looks after its cable assets in New Zealand, today celebrated a key milestone, landing the New Zealand segment of a new high-capacity cable originating at Takapuna Beach.

The ACE submarine cable is now live and available for interconnection at three of Teraco’s data centres across South Africa, expanding access to broadband connectivity and digital services in Africa.

Rome, 23 June 2021-Sparkle, the first international service provider in Italy and among the top ten global operators, announces the launch of Albania Crossing, the new direct route connecting Athens to Milan.

Rome / Palermo, 14 June 2021 - Sparkle, the first international service provider in Italy and among the top ten global operators, announced the expansion of the Nibble network to northern Europe during a meeting held at the Sicily Hub in Palermo between Sparkle CEO Elisabetta Romano and Undersecretary of State for Foreign Affairs Manlio Di Stefano.

According to Spanish Cinco Días, Vodafone has announced to deploy a new extension of the 2Africa submarine cable to connect the Canary Islands and the Iberian Peninsula. Vodafone will implement the project together with the Cabildo de Tenerife through CanaLink, with the aim of offering the “necessary capacity for the next decades for voice and data traffic”.  

Very shortly, 2021, HMN Technologies will complete another industry-first: a 16-fiber-pair repeatered submarine cable system connecting Hainan Island to Hong Kong. This is another milestone project that showcases both HMN’s advances in submarine cable technology reinforcing that high fiber count, large capacity Space Division Multiplexing (SDM) systems are no longer a concept, but a fast-evolving reality.

Newington, NH, USA – June 9, 2021 – SubCom, in conjunction with Google, today announced that a contract is in force for the design, manufacture, and deployment of Firmina, a new highspeed undersea cable system connecting North and South America. The cable will run from the East Coast of the United States to Las Toninas, Argentina, with additional landings in Praia Grande, Brazil and Punta del Este, Uruguay. Designed as a twelve-fiber pair trunk, Firmina will improve access to Google services for users in South America.

Google announce on Wednesday to build the Firmina subsea cable, an open subsea cable that will run from the East Coast of the United States to Las Toninas, Argentina, with additional landings in Praia Grande, Brazil, and Punta del Este, Uruguay.

PEACE Cable International Network Co., Limited and PCCW Global announced to deploy with the Infinera ICE6 optical engine solution on the Mediterranean Segment of the Pakistan & East Africa Connecting Europe (PEACE) submarine cable system. With the Infinera ICE6, the PEACE submarine cable system will transmit record-breaking capacity of nearly 25Tbps per fiber pair, while laying the foundation for enhanced service scalability, flexibility and future differentiation.

HANOVER, Md. – June 8, 2021 – Marcatel, a telecommunications carrier based in Mexico, is leveraging Ciena’s (NYSE: CIEN) coherent optical technology to support a new network connecting Querétaro, Mexico, to McAllen, Texas. The network, which serves content delivery providers and wholesale carriers, allows Marcatel to offer low-latency, high-capacity data center interconnect (DCI) services at speeds up to 600Gbps across long distances to meet an ever-growing demand for bandwidth-hungry video, data, and cloud-based content.

The Mutually Agreed Norms for Routing Security (MANRS) officially announced on June 1^st that another China Telecom backbone network, AS4809, met its community-led routing security standards. MANRS accepted three other major China Telecom networks in December 2020. This announcement means that all of China Telecom's backbone networks successfully implemented the routing security best practices of MANRS.