TPG Telecom and Infinera (NASDAQ: INFN) announced a major technology upgrade of PPC-1 submarine cable connecting Australia and Guam to significantly boost cable capacity from 8 Tbps currently to 12 Tbps, and improve reliability leveraging Infinera’s ICE6 800G solution.

Google announced today to build Blue and Raman cable systems, in collaboration with Sparkle and others. Sparkle also announced the collaboration with Google. Further more, Sparkle revealed that its private BlueMed cable system shares fiber pairs in the Blue cable system. Sparkle’s BlueMed further extends by sharing the wet components of the Blue system and adding new branches in the Mediterranean.

In a blog post today by Bikash Koley, VP and Head of Google Global Networking and Head of Technology and Strategy, Google Cloud for Telecommunications, Google officially announced the contruction of Blue and Raman cable systems,  the Blue Submarine Cable System connecting Italy, France, Greece, and Israel, and the Raman Submarine Cable System connecting Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Djibouti, Oman and India.

Hawaiki Submarine Cable Limited Partnership ("HSC LP") announced on Tuesday the sale of 100% of the shares of the company to BW Digital Pte. Ltd., an affiliate of BW Group Limited, headquartered in Singapore. Media reports said the transaction price was about A$500m (US$350m).

SUB.CO announced the landing of the Oman Australia Cable (OAC) in Perth, Australia on July 22^nd, 2021. The cable landing from the Cable Ship Reliance, marks a major milestone in providing Australia with diverse and direct connectivity to EMEA.

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.