According to Hargreaves Lansdown, the UK’s number one platform for private investors, Digital 9 Infrastructure announced plans to list its shares and then buy Aqua Comms as its first investment. Aqua Comms' major assests include transatlantic subsea cables AEC-1 and AEC-2 and other network assets in Europe. The transaction would be $215m (£155m) on a cash-free, debt-free basis.

Submarine cable is highway for data transmission. Submarine networks carry more than 99 percent of the world’s intercontinental electronic communications traffic. Submarine cables are critical infrastructure, which carries approximately more than $15 trillion worth transactions, every day.

Submarine networking has recently seen several technological evolutions. Recently, many new subsea announcements with make use of innovative technologies in Dry plant or Subsea terminal and Wet Plant or Submerged plant.

Subsea cable systems are quite common in Cancun. After all, Telmex and other companies have already used the city as a landing point for past projects like the AMX-1. A cable system connecting Florida and Cancun just hasn’t been seen in over 20 years.

However, FB Submarine Partners, a new international telecoms network developer, announced that they are building a 1,200 km Mexican Caribbean subsea cable. the GigNet-1 subsea cable system. This is in collaboration with network provider GigNet Inc. and EPC contractor Xtera. And here’s what you need to know about it.

According to press release of the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (MCIT) of Egypt, Telecom Egypt and Suez Canal Authority, in coordination with the Armed Forces Signal Corps, has signed an agreement to create a new route for fiber optic internet cables between the Red Sea and the Mediterranean through Al Morshedeen Road. The agreement signing was witnessed by the ICT Minister Amr Talaat, Suez Canal Authority Chairman Osama Rabie, and the Armed Forces Signal Corps Head Tarek El-Zaher. 

Tokyo, March 19, 2021 - NEC Corporation (NEC; TSE: 6701) and its subsidiary OCC Corporation announced today that they have completed full qualification of subsea repeaters and optical cable containing up to 24 fiber pairs (FPs) (48 fibers). This is a 50% improvement in fiber count over the 16 fiber pair systems generally available today. This development allows cable owners worldwide to construct subsea telecom cables with superior traffic capacity while reducing the cost per bit of the wet plant. This approach is fully in line with SDM (Space Division Multiplexing) system architectures. NEC's 24 FP solution not only provides more flexibility to operate in the subsea fiber pair market, it also enables better connectivity in high-density subsea branches.

Amsterdam, 16 March 2021 - The world’s largest Internet Exchanges (IXs) ​AMS-IX​, DE-CIX​, ​LINX​, and ​Netnod​ have joined forces with the newly founded Route Server Support Foundation (RSSF) to tackle the lack of open source software suitable for high-end mission critical Route Server deployments. The ultimate goal of the cooperation is the improvement of the BGP software diversity and the strengthening of open source BGP implementations.

CORAL GABLES, FL., March 17, 2021 -- Confluence Networks LLC today announced that MasTec Inc. (NYSE: MTZ) has acquired an equity interest in Confluence, a Florida-based developer of undersea fiber-optic communications systems. The investment will allow the company to complete development and construction of Confluence-1, the first undersea cable system dedicated to linking strategic global communications nodes on the East Coast of the United States, including: New York, NY; Miami, FL; Virginia Beach, VA; and Jacksonville, FL; and opening a new strategic node in Myrtle Beach, SC.

Cyprus, Greece and Israel energy ministers signed recently a historic cooperation MoU to build the world's longest and deepest underwater power cable, the Euro-Asia Interconnector which will traverse the Mediterranean seabed and connect Cyprus into the European power network for the first time, as well as Israel. The Euro-Asia Interconnector project will cost about $900 million (€760 million),  partly financed by the European Union.

According to the Wall Street Journal, Facebook has decided to abandon the Hong Kong-Americas (HKA) submarine cable project and withdraw the application to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for submarine cable landing license in the United States. Facebook is the landing party in the United States for the HKA consortium comprising Facebook, China Telecom, China Unicom, RTI Express, Tata Communication and Telstra.

EllaLink announced today that it has successfully completed the marine installation of the industry’s lowest-latency transatlantic cable system between Europe and Latin America. For the next stage of the project, EllaLink has selected Infinera (NASDAQ: INFN) and its leading-edge ICE6 technology to light the network, providing a direct single hop transmission path between data centers in each continent.

According to Djibouti Telecom, Hormuud Telecom in Somalia has joined as a new member and signatory of the DARE1 Construction and Maintenance Agreement (C&MA). Djibouti Telecom and Somtel are the two original investors and main shareholders of the DARE1 cable system, Telkom Kenya joined later as an investor and landing party in Kenya.

The London Internet Exchange (LINX) are close to completing a full network migration at their regional UK interconnection point, LINX Manchester.

EllaLink cable achieved its final splice on March 4th at 16:56 local time. The ASN cableship Ile de Sein and her crew performed the final splice of the EllaLink transatlantic cable, in over 4500m water depth, 400km North East of the Mid Atlantic ridge.

Jakarta, 04 March 2021 –  The growth of data center business now days is slowly becoming a trend in the market. Over the last two years we started to feel the presence of new data centers within the country that also create the surge of investor and operator activities. This condition is strengthened by the pandemic situation that force the community to transform their activities into digital lifestyle.

Telecom Egypt, Egypt’s first integrated telecom operator and one of the largest subsea cable operators in the region, announces its plans to launch Hybrid African Ring Path (HARP) by 2023, a new subsea system that will outline the African continent, forming the shape of a harp. It will connect coastal and landlocked African countries to Europe through the company’s widespread terrestrial and subsea infrastructure. Through HARP, Telecom Egypt will offer a wide range of capacity solutions, up to dark fiber, based on a layer two and layer three architecture that can connect multiple points on the system to one another.

Equinix and Vodafone announced on Wednesday a plan to build a new subsea hub in Genoa, called Equinix GN1. Vodafone is leading all European landings along with selected other sites for the 2Africa cable system. Vodafone will land the 2Africa cable system at Genoa and use Equinix's GN1 facility as a strategic interconnection point for the subsea cable system. Equinix GN1 will have a direct fiber connection to Equinix ML5, creating stronger connectivity in Europe and contributing to building an inclusive digital society for all.