Now that the Pacific Telecommunications Council’s annual conference, PTC’19, is over, let’s take a look at some of the highlights from the news announcements during the week.
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Pacific Islands See Ups and Downs of Having a Cable
As we have written about frequently, there has been a major push in recent years to connect remote island nations in the Pacific.
IPG Photonics Corporation announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire the submarine networks division (SND) of Padtec SA, a communications equipment company based in Brazil.
Grupo GTD Inaugurates Data Center in Southernmost Chile
On January 21, Chilean officials participated in the inauguration ceremony of a world-class data center built by Chilean carrier Grupo GTD in Puerto Montt, in the southernmost part of the Southern Cone.
NEXTDC, Microsoft Bring ExpressRoute to Perth
NEXTDC Limited has announced Microsoft Azure ExpressRoute will be made available at their P1 Perth data center from February 2019, offering customers direct connections to Microsoft Azure cloud.
Hawaiki and PacketFabric have signed a strategic partnership to provision secure, low-latency transpacific capacity on the Hawaiki submarine cable system and extend the reach of PacketFabric’s Software-defined Networking (SDN) platform into APAC.
Plans for NorthConnect Cable Approved
The Aberdeenshire Council approved the major planning application for the HVDC cables which will connect the approved converter station at Stirling Hill, Boddam to an offshore transmission cable across the North Sea to a similar converter station at Simadalen in Norway.
VIRTUS Embarks on Data Center Construction Program
VIRTUS Data Centres, the UK’s fastest growing data center provider, announced that it is embarking on one of the biggest construction undertakings of any operator in Europe with the simultaneous construction of five additional data centers across its London sites.
DE-CIX Interwire to Open Internet Exchanges in India
DE-CIX Interwire Internet Services Private Limited will expand its business activities to the Delhi, Kolkata and Chennai markets in the first quarter of 2019.
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