Pacnet has announced the launch of its Hong Kong Data Landing Station (DLS), the first carrier neutral data center facility of its kind in the Asia Pacific region with direct high-speed connectivity into Pacnet’s pan-Asian subsea cable network.

GlobeNet, an international wholesale provider of submarine capacity, and a wholly owned subsidiary of Oi, has unveiled its plans for a 200 Gbps upgrade, from 360 Gbps to 560 Gbps of total lit network capacity, in its lowest latency, fiber optic cable network connecting the Americas. In response to the ever-increasing bandwidth demands from its customers, GlobeNet has successfully completed a network trial to ensure its optical transmission technology can support this high capacity upgrade. As a result, GlobeNet awarded Alcatel-Lucent and Xtera Communications, Inc. 100 Gbps contracts respectfully. The new network capacity deployment is scheduled to be complete by first quarter 2011 with further plans by GlobeNet to upgrade to a 1.44 Tbps network thereafter.

The national data transmission backbone and e-governance infrastructure cable will be connected to SEACOM, the East African Marine System (TEAMS) and the East African submarine cable system (EAASy) cables, the ICT minister has said.

Hibernia Atlantic has announced the opening of its office facility located at 55 Old Broad Street in London, United Kingdom. The new office is a result of Hibernia's strong growth in Europe and the increased customer demand for its robust network services platform globally.

African mobile operator Zain Tanzania has slashed its Internet tariffs by more than 50 percent following the company’s connection to East African submarine fiber optic cable SEACOM.

As part of its efforts to further enhance Internet services, Starcomms has acquired capacity on the Main One submarine fiber optic cable linking Nigeria and the whole of West Africa to Europe. The new development will pave the way for additional transformation in Internet access and reliable voice service from Starcomms.

Ownership of small shares of three Caribbean submarine fiber optic cables will be transferred under a bankruptcy reorganization plan of one of the members of the consortia that own the cables.

A carrier in the South Pacific has released a Request for Proposal (RFP) for telecom and Internet Protocol (IP) services in Australia and key global markets.

Pacific Crossing, an NTT Communications Corporation company and operator of the transpacific submarine cable system PC-1, has further upgraded the capacity and enhanced its Ethernet service offering on its infrastructure in order to match continual growth in demand for its services. The newly added capacity came into service at the end of July. A third upgrade of the PC-1 system is scheduled for later in 2010.

AT&T has announced the planned expansion of its network capacity for the Asia Pacific region through the upgrade of the APCN2, of which AT&T is part of the ownership group. The fourfold rise in capacity in the state-of-the-art dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) cable will increase the original design capacity from the existing 10Gb/s DWDM to 40Gb/s expansion. This represents one of the world’s large-scale upgrade of a major undersea cable network.