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By Winston Qiu The European Union has funded a grant of € 9 744 100,00 for a three-year SUBMERSE project, the "SUBMarine cablEs for ReSearch and Exploration" (SUBMERSE) programme, aiming to make available to the scientific community, civil society and industry, data from continuous observations on several submarine fibre optic cables, using technologies such as polarization state detection (SOP) and digital acoustic sensing (DAS)
By PR Release KKR, a leading global investment firm, and the parent company of OMS Group (or the “Company”), a leading telecom infrastructure company and provider of subsea cable services, today announced the signing of definitive agreements under which KKR will commit $400 million in a tailored solution for OMS Group.
By PR Release Liquid Dataport, a business of Liquid Intelligent Technologies (Liquid), a pan-African technology group, has launched its newest fibre route connecting Mombasa, Kenya, to Muanda on the west coast of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo). This is the shortest route connecting East to West Africa, reducing data transmission latency by 20 milliseconds. The much anticipated 3,800km route marks a new era in East-West connectivity on the continent, adding to Liquid’s One Africa Digital Network, which now spans 110,000 km.
By Winston Qiu The European Commission will provide a total amount of nearly €150 million in financial support to 38 projects to deploy safe, secure and sustainable high-performance 5G and digital backbone infrastructure. The projects have been selected among 60 projects submitted under calls for proposals under Connecting Europe Facility (CEF Digital), the funding programme supporting European digital infrastructure.
By Winston Qiu Liquid Dataport, a business of Cassava Technologies, a pan-African technology group, announced it has launched the first terrestrial fibre connecting Mombasa to Johannesburg. This new route, including a breakthrough and unique fibre link across DRC between Goma and Kananga, provides multiple landlocked countries with extra redundancy, resilience, connectivity to numerous data centres and cloud resources, and, most significantly, an alternative option in the event of a subsea cable outage between Kenya and South Africa.
By Winston Qiu Sparkle announced the deployment of state-of-the-art C+L technologies - supplied by Infinera and Nokia - on its global optical terrestrial and subsea networks to further enhance its offering and meet the surging market demand worldwide.
By PR Release Vocus, Australia’s specialist fibre and network solutions provider, announced availability of Australia’s first commercial 400Gbps Wavelength Ethernet product connecting Sydney, Melbourne and Canberra.
By Winston Qiu Lumen Technologies (Lumen) and Colt Technology Services (Colt) announced Wednesday they have entered into an exclusive arrangement for the proposed sale of Lumen's Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) business to Colt for $1.8 billion. This represents a very attractive multiple (~11x) for Lumen EMEA business's estimated 2021 adjusted EBITDA.
By PR Release Mobily announced its investments in new submarine cables, terrestrial networks, data centers and internet exchange at the Capacity Europe 2022 Conference, which took place in London. The conference brought the carrier community together under one roof to discuss current and future partnerships, collaborative projects, and the transformation of the wholesale telecom ecosystem fueled by rapid digital transformation. Mobily was a Gold Sponsor at the event and announced and shared its infrastructure expansion initiatives with the carrier community.
By Winston Qiu NEC Corporation (NEC) announced today that it has signed a charter contract with U.K.-based Global Marine Systems Limited for an optical submarine cable-laying ship for approximately four years. Through this contract, NEC will strengthen its provision of submarine cable systems and respond to expanding demand for submarine cables due to the increase in global data traffic.
By Winston Qiu 3i Infrastructure plc (“3i Infrastructure”) announced the completion of its $377 million investment to acquire a 100% stake in Global Cloud Xchange (”GCX”), a leading global data communications service provider and owner of the world’s largest private subsea fibre optic network.
By Winston Qiu Singapore, 25th August 2022 - Submarine Networks World, the largest annual gathering of subsea communications leaders in the world will once again convene in Singapore on September 7-8, 2022. This is the first in-person edition of the event since 2019 and marks the first time that the subsea communications community has been able to gather at scale since the pandemic.
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