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Orange is to build a new generation submarine cable connecting France to the United States.
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Google builds new subsea cable connecting US, UK and Spain
29 July 2020
Google is building a new submarine cable to connect the United States, the United Kingdom and Spain.
Content platforms reduce European streaming quality to make way for remote working
20 March 2020
Content platforms Netflix and YouTube have agreed to reduce the quality of streaming across Europe as internet-use continues to rise amidst the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Keely Portway looks at the latest developments in submarine networks, and the issues and trends shaping the market
Google cable connecting Chile and California completed
26 April 2019
Google, in partnership with SubCom, has completed the installation of submarine cable uniting Chile and California.
Google Fiber leaves Louisville, Kentucky
14 February 2019
Google has pulled its Google Fiber gigabit internet service from Louisville, Kentucky in the US.
Google builds new subsea cable connecting U.S. East coast to Europe
20 July 2018
Google is building a new submarine cable system to connect the East coast of the United States with Europe. TE SubCom has been selected to build the Dunant four-fibre pair cable system, which will span more than 6,400km.
Google expands cloud network with three new subsea cables
18 January 2018
Google has announced that it plans to build three new subsea cables as part of an investment drive for its cloud infrastructure.
With the additional news that the it will be adding a further five regions to its network – which, according to the company, already delivers 25 per cent of worldwide internet traffic – the additional cable investment will be essential in continuing to maintain and improve performance.
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As the pandemic underlines the value of the internet more than ever, its underlying technology is making one of its biggest transitions for years.
The data centre market is a particularly wide-ranging one, with one of the driving forces in recent years the emergence of the hyperscale data centre or cloud service provider.
As the world struggles to settle into the ‘new normal’, today’s optical networks need to be flexible in their architecture blueprint, while adapting to new technologies to provide the kinds of new capacity and service options to meet accelerated demand for higher bandwidth.
To address the undeniable growing demand for higher bandwidth, optical vendors have been playing their role with the development of various coherent optical transceivers for different areas of the market, each with its own set of design considerations.
The demand for bandwidth has unarguably skyrocketed in recent years, thanks largely to the increased appetite for online gaming, content streaming and social-media use.
The importance of reliable connectivity has never been more recognised than it is now. While ambitious targets have been in place across the world for fibre deployment for some time, the ongoing pandemic has served to push it to the forefront.
Looking into the future of telecommunications, it could be argued that AI and telcos will effectively transform each other, explains Raf Meersman
How do we, as an industry, build better broadband for a post-pandemic world? The answer could be fixed, suggests Stefaan Vanhastel
Altnets could be the key to connecting rural areas in 2021, argues Michael Armitage
A glance at the current market for fifth-generation coherent optics, and some of the latest developments available
