EllaLink subsea cable construction complete, second stage announced
11 March 2021
EllaLink has completed the marine installation stage of its trans-Atlantic cable system between Europe and Latin America.
Submarine Networks
$300m submarine cable project to connect US and Panama
18 February 2021
Ocean Networks (ONI) is to launch a submarine cable system linking Florida to Panama.
Subsea systems strengthened
8 February 2021
Southern Cross Cable and Bulk Fiber Networks have selected coherent optical solutions to enhance their latest submarine cables.
Orange launches new subsea cable connecting France, US
21 January 2021
Orange is to build a new generation submarine cable connecting France to the United States.
Key developments of 2020
24 November 2020
Keely Portway counts down some of the most-viewed and industry-shaping news stories of 2020
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.
First new subsea cable to connect UK and France after nearly 20 years
17 July 2020
International network provider, Crosslake Fibre is undertaking a new subsea cable project, CrossChannel Fibre.
New subsea cable to connect 23 African countries, courtesy of collaboration
15 May 2020
Eight companies have come together to build 2Africa, a subsea cable designed to serve the African continent and Middle East region.
Direct subsea optical connection trialled between USA and Africa
20 January 2020
Angola Cables is trialling Nokia’s Photonic Service Engine 3 (PSE-3) chipset for the first direct subsea optical connection between the USA and Africa.
South Pacific subsea cable given go-ahead
11 November 2019
The installation of an optical fibre submarine cable spanning the south Pacific has been approved at a crucial meeting of regional telecommunications leaders.
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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
