Cisco and Acacia Communications announced on Tuesday they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Cisco has agreed to acquire Acacia. Under the terms of the agreement, Cisco has agreed to acquire Acacia for $70.00 per share in cash, or for approximately $2.6 billion on a fully diluted basis, net of cash and marketable securities.

Google has been obviously the largest owner and investor in submarine cable networks globally. Upon announcing its latest investment of the private Equiano subsea cable system, Google has invested in 14 subsea cable systems, with approximately 112,000km cable length in a total. Between 2016 and 2018, Google invested US$47 billion in capex to improve Google Could infrastructure which includes 134 points of presence (PoP) and 14 subsea cable investments globally.

Google has officially announced its fully funded new private Equiano subsea cable, connecting Portugal, South Africa and other African countries. A contract to build the Equiano cable with Alcatel Submarine Networks was signed in Q4 2018. Certain potential landing party and professionals have released the Equiano cable project earlier. Between 2016 and 2018, Google invested US$47 billion in capex, which includes investment in improving its global infrastructure.

PacketFabric announced recently the expansion of its platform to Sydney, Australia. The PacketFabric platform is now available at the Equinix SY4 International Business Exchange™ (IBX®). This Sydney point of presence (PoP) is the first data center in the Asia-Pacific region on PacketFabric’s network. PacketFabric and Hawaiki Cable concluded earlier a strategic, mutually beneficial partnership agreement.

The INDIGO consortium comprising AARNet, Google, Indosat Ooredoo, Singtel, SubPartners and Telstra announced on May 30^th that the INDIGO subsea cable system is ready for use. The INDIGO cable consists of two fiber pairs, with a design capacity of around 36 Tbps. INDIGO cable system features new spectrum-sharing technology, each consortium member can deploy its own SLTE, upgrade their networks and enable capacity increases on demand independently.

Infinera and Fastweb announced recently the successful demonstration of 500Gbps single-wavelength DWDM service connectivity in a production network using Infinera’s configurable technology on the Groove platform. The high-speed optical transmission demonstration, the first in Italy, spanned over 180 kilometers (km) on Fastweb’s low-latency long-haul backbone network, between Milan and Turin.

Zayo Group announced on Wednesday that it has signed a definitive merger agreement to be acquired by affiliates of Digital Colony Partners (“Digital Colony”) and the EQT Infrastructure IV fund (“EQT” or “EQT Infrastructure”). The transaction would result in Zayo transitioning from a public company to a private company. Under the new ownership, the Zayo team would continue to execute the Company’s strategy and remain headquartered in Boulder, Colorado. The transaction valued at $14.3 billion, including the assumption of $5.9 billion of Zayo’s net debt obligations.

The snaking submarine optical fiber cables resting in the darkest depths of the ocean floor carrying ultra-dense bundles of light signals that are modulated on every parameter of signal propagation that physics has defined, enhancing spectral efficiency, packing more bits per hertz and lowering cost per bit, to deliver incredible transmission capacity between cities, countries and continents. This is unarguably the submerged foundation of digital destiny for everything globalized and digital in business ecosystems spanning connectivity, cloud, content and commerce, that propels innovation for – MORE, endlessly. This article aims to present a brief synopsis of the leading-edge developments in technology and market landscape, take a closer look at the new era of open and disaggregated submarine cable systems, CLS design and characterize Open CLS in light of the new developments.

ROCHESTER, N.Y., April 30, 2019 - CloudSmartz, a global software company exclusively focused on next-generation solutions for Communications Service Providers, in collaboration with Seaborn Networks ("Seaborn"), a leading developer-owner-operator of subsea fiber optic cable systems, today announced that CloudSmartz will enable Seaborn's digital transformation strategy and deployment over the next several months. Seaborn's Seabras-1 offers the only direct POP-POP route between São Paulo, Brazil, and New York City, USA, and soon will offer an end-to-end automation platform that will enable services to be delivered by leading SDN technology.

The Landing Party Agreement for PEACE cable system was signed between Telecom Egypt, Hengtong and PCCW Global on 27th April, 2019 in Beijing during the second Belt and Road summit. In the presence of the minister of telecommunication of Egypt Dr. Amr Talaat and the chairman of Hengtong Group Mr. Cui Genliang, Mr. Adel Hamed, CEO of Telecom Egypt, Mr. Wu Qianjun, VP of Hengtong Group and CEO of PEACE, Mr. Jordick Wong, senior VP of PCCW Global, together signed the agreement.

According to 24horas, the National Television of Chile, Google’s Curie subsea cable has landed in Chile, connecting Valparaiso and California to the Google network. In earlier this year, Google has selected Equinix LA4 as its Los Angeles cable landing station (CLS) for the Curie subsea cable system. 

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Infinera announced that Kanawa, a new subsea cable owned and operated by Orange in the Caribbean, now offers reliable, high-capacity network services for its existing customers, operators and internet content providers who require additional capacity. Kanawa is powered by Infinera’s fourth-generation Infinite Capacity Engine (ICE4)-based XTS 3600 platform and Infinera Instant Bandwidth.

According to PEACE, PEACE Cable International Network Co., Ltd. (PEACE) and Cyber Internet Services Pvt Ltd(Cybernet) signed a Cable Landing Party Agreement on April 16, 2019 at Capacity North Africa in Cairo, follows a Memorandum of Understanding signed by both parties in 2018. Cybernet, amongst Pakistan’s oldest ISPs, is the PEACE Cable Landing Station Partner in Pakistan and has been entrusted with deploying PEACE Pakistan Cable Landing Station (CLS) and managing its operations. Cybernet will build the first carrier-neutral cable landing station in Karachi, Pakistan. PEACE cable is targeted for completion in Q1, 2020.

Sparkle, the first international service provider in Italy and among the top ten global operators, announced on April 12 a long-term investment for the deployment of BlueMed submarine cable linking Palermo with Genoa. The BlueMed cable system will connect Sparkle’s Sicily Hub open data center in Palermo and Milan’s rich digital ecosystem.

According to Google and SubCom, Google's Dunant cable system will implement SubCom’s space division multiplexing technology (SDM) and high fiber count (HFC) architecture. Dunant cable system will be the first ever in-service undersea cable featuring a 12 fiber-pair SDM design. Dunant will also deliver record-breaking capacity of 250 terabits per second across the Atlantic.