Reliance Jio Infocomm Ltd. (Jio) announced on the World Telecommunication Day 2021 its progress on constructing the largest international submarine cable system centered on India, the India-Asia-Xpress (IAX) and the India-Europe-Xpress (IEX) subsea cable systems. IAX and IEX cable systems will provide more than 200Tbps of capacity spanning over 16,000 kilometers. 

According to Teraco, the Meltingpot Indianoceanic Submarine System (Métiss) is accessible from its data centre in Durban, known as Teraco DB1.

Métiss is a 3 200km subsea fibre-optic cable system connecting South Africa to the Indian Ocean islands of Madagascar, Reunion and Mauritius. The Métiss consortium comprises Canal+ Télécom, CEB Fibernet, Emtel, Zeop and SRR (SFR) Telma.

Keppel Telecommunications & Transportation’s (Keppel T&T) wholly-owned subsidiary, Keppel Midgard Holdings Pte. Ltd. (KMH), has signed a binding term sheet with leading Philippine fibre broadband provider Converge Information & Communications Technology Solutions, Inc. (Converge) to grant Converge an Indefeasible Right of Use (IRU) for one fibre pair on the main trunk of Bifrost Cable System, which directly connects Singapore to the west coast of North America. The Bifrost Cable System will branch into and land in Davao, the Philippines.

Madrid, April 20, 2021. Telxius, the leading neutral telecommunications infrastructure operator, has announced that the new Tannat submarine cable, connecting Santos (Brazil) with Las Toninas (Argentina) is now open for business. This 2,000 kilometer new generation system adds to the Brusa and Junior cables on the Atlantic coast of Latin America to deliver the most modern and diverse end-to-end connectivity between the U.S., Brazil and Argentina.

Tianjin, April 12th, 2021 – HMN Tech announced that it has launched an industry-first 18kV power feeding solution in submarine cable systems worldwide. This significant development offers a 20% voltage increase compared to a more traditional 15kV standard solution. To integrate into an 18 kV repeatered submarine cable system, HMN Tech has fully tested and qualified the full range of SDM (Space Division Multiplexing) wet plants.

Edge Cable Holdings USA, LLC , a subsidiary of Facebook, and GU Holdings Inc., a subsidiary of Google, have jointly applied to the FCC for a license to land and operate the Echo Cable System, a private fiber-optic submarine cable system connecting the United States, Singapore, and Indonesia.

According to the application document, key features of the Echo Cable System are sumarized belows.

The London Internet Exchange (LINX) saw their network reach new heights last week as they tipped over the 6Tbps mark.

LINX provide global interconnection services for networks, allowing them to meet other key networks and ‘peer’ their Internet traffic in a secure environment. This considerably increases network control and redundancy as well as reducing network latency.

Keppel Telecommunications & Transportation’s (Keppel T&T) announced its wholly-owned subsidiary Keppel Midgard Holdings Pte. Ltd. (KMH) has been granted a Facilities-Based Operator (FBO) licence by the Infocomm Media Development Authority of Singapore (IMDA). The FBO licence will allow KMH to own, maintain and operate telecoms infrastructure in Singapore and to provide telecommunications services in connection with the Bifrost Cable System.

DUBLIN – 1st April 2021 –  Aqua Comms DAC (“Aqua Comms”), the owner and operator of America Europe Connect-1 (AEC-1), America Europe Connect-2 (AEC-2) and CeltixConnect-1 (CC-1) today announced that it has been acquired by digital investment trust Digital 9 Infrastructure PLC (“D9”).

According to Djibouti Telecom, the DARE-1 cable connecting Djibouti, Somalia and Kenya has been in service since early February 2021. The DARE-1 cable spans about 4,900 km, equipped with the latest generation of optical fiber for a total system capacity of 36Tbps on three fiber pairs.

According to the U.S. Inernational Development Finance Corportation (DFC), leaders from the U.S.’s Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC), the Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC), and the Australian Government announced a trilateral partnership to invest in infrastructure projects in the Indo-Pacific region at the Indo-Pacific Business Forum hosted by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce on July 30, 2018.

Facebook announced on Sunday (March 28th) investments in two vital new subsea cables to connect Singapore, Indonesia, and the United States, i.e., Echo subsea cable system and Bifrost cable system. These two cable systems will be the first transpacific cables through a new diverse route crossing the Java Sea and will increase overall transpacific capacity by 70 percent.

Keppel Telecommunications & Transportation Limited (Keppel T&T), through a wholly owned subsidiary, Keppel Midgard Holdings Pte. Ltd. (KMH), a subsidiary of Facebook Inc. (Facebook) and PT. Telekomunikasi Indonesia International (Telin), a subsidiary of PT Telkom Indonesia (Persero) Tbk are pleased to announce that they have entered into a joint build agreement to jointly own and develop the Bifrost Cable System, the world's first subsea cable system that directly connects Singapore to the west coast of North America via Indonesia through the Java Sea and Celebes Sea.

In a latest post today by Bikash Koley, VP of Global Networking, Google Cloud, Google announced the investment in Echo subsea cable system, a new subsea cable directly connecting Singapore to the United States.

Echo cable will run from Eureka, California to Singapore, with a stop-over in Guam, with plans to also land in Indonesia. Additional landings are possible in the future. 

Claro and Telxius announced recently the landing of the South Pacific Submarine Cable (SPSC) or ‘Mistral’ in Peru. Mistral is Telxius' commercial name of the South Pacific Submarine Cable (SPSC). The SPSC/Mistral cable system is a new high-capacity fiber optic submarine cable, which runs along the Latin American Pacific coast to link up Guatemala, Ecuador, Peru and Chile and which provides a direct connection with servers available in the United States.