Suppliers

Huawei Marine achieve breakeven by year-end 2012

Although a relatively new supplier with large investment plans in the early years, Huawei Marine achieved breakeven at the end of 2012 after only four years of operation, passing a huge internal milestone and offering competitive solutions to its customers.

New Submarine Cable Systems

Omantel comments on involvement in BBG

Following up on previous announcements by the Bay of Bengal Gateway (BBG) consortium, Omantel announced that it signed the BBG agreement as well. This new submarine fiber optic cable will enhance the robustness and reliability of international connectivity between Oman and the rest of the world through another direct connection to Singapore, with additional landing points in UAE, India, Sri Lanka and Malaysia.

New Submarine Cable Systems

Tunisian carriers sign agreement with Interoute

Tunisiana and Orange Tunisia announced the signing of a partnership agreement with Interoute, the owner operator of Europe’s largest next generation network, for the commissioning of a submarine cable, called Didon, connecting the city of Kélibia, Tunisia to Interoute’s pan European fiber optic network, via its landing station in Mazara del Vallo, Siciliy, Italy. Didon, Tunisia’s first private submarine cable will cover nearly 170 km of optical fiber and be a real force for social development and economic growth for the country. The commissioning of the Didon cable is planned for April 2014 and its capacity will reach eight Terabit per second and per operator.

New Submarine Cable Systems

KT wins installation contract from NEC

KT Submarine has signed an agreement with Japan's NEC to install submarine fiber optic cables in the Asia-Pacific region for a project that NEC is supplying. The contract amount is estimated at 40.6 billion won.

Existing Submarine Cable Networks

Columbus Networks, CWC form JV

Columbus Networks and CWC Wholesale Solutions announced the formation of a joint venture to provide expanded wholesale bandwidth capacity to global, regional and local communications companies in the Caribbean and Americas Region. The joint venture company will be called CNL-CWC Networks Ltd.

Existing Submarine Cable Systems

GlobeNet opens fastest US-Brazil IP traffic route

GlobeNet, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Oi, has extended its low latency network into Equinix's MI3 International Business Exchange(TM) (IBX(R)) data center in Boca Raton, Florida. GlobeNet's expansion into Equinix's MI3 data center opens the fastest IP traffic route from the United States to Brazil.

New Submarine Cable Systems

Ghana inaugurates ACE

The official launch of services in Ghana on the ACE submarine fiber optic cable took place on May 12 at the cable landing station in Accra.  ACE is a 17,000-kilometer cable covering the West Coast of Africa.  The cable was announced ready for service in December.

New Submarine Cable Systems

Telekom Malaysia discusses BBG

Telekom Malaysia Berhad (TM) continues to play an integral role in providing connectivity diversity and elevating the region's telecommunications efficiency level when the company recently signed an agreement with five other regional telco players -- Vodafone Group, UAE's Etisalat, Sri Lanka's Dialog Axiata, India's Reliance Jio Infocomm Limited, and Omantel of Oman -- forming a consortium for the establishment of the Bay of Bengal Gateway (BBG) submarine cable system.

New Submarine Cable Systems

American Samoa may need a second cable

American Samoa may have to build a new submarine fiber optic cable system meet growing demand for Internet bandwidth.  The new cable may be needed in two years.

Existing Submarine Cable Systems

SEACOM, Epsilon interconnect

Epsilon Telecommunications, the world’s largest global telecommunications network exchange, has signed an interconnection agreement with privately owned communications service provider SEACOM. With SEACOM preconnected, Epsilon can offer its customers network connectivity to Africa via the SEACOM submarine fiber optic cable network as well as carrying African telecommunications traffic globally. Customers of SEACOM in turn have access to Epsilon’s 450+ preconnected network operators around the world.