Kingston, Jamaica – Wednesday 29^th September 2021. Digicelis making a significant investment in international submarine capacity with the build of its Deep Blue One subsea cable and has signed a partnership agreement with Orange to extend the system from Trinidad to French Guiana.

Oslo, Norway – September 29, 2021 — Bulk Fiber Networks, the Nordics’ leading provider of ultra-scalable, highly connected, sustainable digital infrastructure and fiber networks, announced completion of construction of their high-capacity HAVSIL submarine cable. Selected by the Norwegian Communications Authority as the new main secure fiber system for the nation’s international data traffic, the express route is the shortest connecting Norway with continental Europe.

This weekend Orange landed the “AMITIE” submarine telecommunications cable on a beach in the commune of Le Porge, near Bordeaux (Gironde). After two initial attempts were aborted due to unfavorable weather, the better conditions today allowed us to land the cable using an innovative technical process that protects the environment (horizontal directional drilling), a huge technological challenge that was successfully pulled off by the deployment teams. Orange is a partner in this 6,800 km state-of-the-art cable project, which will connect the state of Massachusetts (USA), Le Porge (France) and Bude (UK). Commissioning is scheduled for early 2022.

Tianjin, China – Sep. 27, 2021 – HMN Tech announced today that after considerable research and development it has completed a 32 fibre pair optical amplifier (repeater) prototype. This next-generation submarine product will achieve capacity transmission at a petabit-level, aligning with the rising demand for increased fibre count or SDM systems and the on-going requirements for greater SLTE transmission capabilities. Commercial release of a fully qualified product is targeted for 2022.

Oslo, Norway – September 8, 2021 — Bulk Fiber Networks is the Nordics’ leading provider of ultra-scalable, highly connected, sustainable digital infrastructure and fiber networks, announced the start of installation for the HAVSIL submarine cable express route between Kristiansand, Norway, and Hanstholm, Denmark.

According to Telxius, Google's Grace Hopper submarine cable connecting the United States with the United Kingdom and Spain has landed at Telxius' Sopelana cable landing station in Bilbao and will be connected to the Derio Communications Hub, also located near Bilbao and operated by Telxius/Telefonica.

According to HMN Tech, the world’s first 16-fibre-pair repeatered submarine cable system, Hainan to Hong Kong Express (H2HE) cable system has successfully completed system commissioning and testing and is now ready for service as of September 3, 2021.

According to news of the Australian Federal Police(AFP), the AFP has charged the 59-year-old Master of container ship Maersk Surabaya, which allegedly damaged the Australia Singapore Cable (ASC) off the West Australian coast – in what is believed to be the first prosecution by the AFP for the alleged offence.

NTT Ltd. announced on Monday that it is forming a cable consortium with four other parties. The consortium will lead the construction and maintenance of the APRICOT large-capacity unique-routed optical submarine cable within Asian countries and the U.S.. 

According to stc, the 2Africa consortium, comprised of China Mobile International, Facebook, MTN GlobalConnect, Orange, stc, Telecom Egypt, Vodafone and WIOCC, announced on Monday the addition of a new branch to the 2Africa cable. The branch will extend 2Africa’s connectivity in to The Gulf region. The Gulf branch has been named 2Africa Pearls. 2Africa cable system will connect 46 cable landing stations in 33 countries in Africa, Asia and Europe. This extension will bring the total length of the 2Africa cable system to over 45,000 kilometers, making it the longest subsea cable system ever deployed in the world.

The 2Africa consortium announced the addition of four new branches to the 2Africa cable. The branches will extend 2Africa’s connectivity to the Seychelles, the Comoros Islands, and Angola, and bring a new landing to south-east Nigeria. So far, the 2Africa cable will have 35 landing points in 26 countries, being the largest subsea cable project in the world.

Vocus announced that it will deliver the first international submarine cable connection into Darwin, establishing the Northern Territory capital as Australia’s newest entry point for international data connectivity.

Google, Facebook and PLDT announced respectively today to build the Apricot subsea cable system, connecting Japan, Taiwan, Guam, the Philippines, Indonesia and Singapore.

At a press conference in Moscow arranged by the state-affiliated news agency TASS and Morflot, the Federal agency on Sea and River Transport under the Ministry of Transportation of Russia, Russia unviled its plan to build the Polar Express subsea cable, a 12,650km subsea cable along Russia’s entire Arctic coastline, from Murmansk to Vladivostok, with 6 fiber pairs and system capacity up to 104 Tbps.

According to Infinera, Telecom Italia Sparkle has selected Infinera’s ICE6 800G-capable coherent technology to enhance its new Mediterranean and European Optical Backbone, Nibble. Deploying Infinera’s ICE6 solution will enable Sparkle to launch new 400 GbE services over its existing infrastructure while boosting its network capacity by up to 54%, as demonstrated in a recent trial on two of Sparkle’s major routes in Italy.

According to Telxius, the 7,300-km Mistral cable system has been ready for service as of August 10, 2021. The Mistral cable system is also known as the South Pacific Submarine Cable (SPSC), connecting Puerto San Jose (Guatemala) with Valparaiso (Chile), with additional landing points in Salinas (Ecuador), Lurin (Peru) and Arica (Chile).