Globenet announced that customers from Argentina, Colombia, and the United States have been activated on its new MALBEC submarine cable system. Customers can now enjoy the large capacity, high availability, and low latency rates this system provides. Malbec connects the cities of Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, and Buenos Aires, and is ready to support a future connection with Porto Alegre, in the south of Brazil.

The Africa Coast to Europe (ACE) cable system puts into commercial service the last segment linking Europe, West Africa and South Africa as of June 1st, 2021. and increases design capacity of the entire system to 20Tbps.

Converge ICT Solutions Inc. (Converge) and Keppel Midgard Holdings Pte. Ltd. (KMH), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Keppel Telecommunications & Transportation’s (Keppel T&T), announced on Thursday the signing of the definitive agreements for the participation of Converge in the Bifrost Cable System project. Converge and Keppel held an online signing ceremony on May 25, 2021. The Bifrost Cable System will directly connect Singapore to the west coast of North America.

The two partners on the trans-Arctic cable project Arctic Connect, the Finnish state-owned operator Cinia Ltd and Russian MegaFon, have suspended the Arctic Connect project for further assessment. Russian news agency Interfax reported on Thursday May 27, Megafon has decided to review the structure and economy of the Arctic Connect project, and it will take some time to regroup. Cinia had a formal press release on Friday May 28, annoucing the suspension of the Arctic Connect project.

TeleYemen is the International Telecommunication Gateway of Republic of Yemen and the international capacities provider of the country. It provides all the required international capacities to the local Internet service providers and mobile communications operators over submarine networks, terrestrial links, or satellite links.

Etisalat has announced to build a third facility in its SmartHub data centers portfolio with the opening of state-of-art Tier 3 data center in Kalba. , which has been selected to be the landing for Africa-1, a new subsea telecom system connecting Africa, the Middle East and Europe.

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”).