EIB Agrees to Help Fund Cape Verde Cable
The European Investment Bank (EIB) has agreed to support the provision of a new submarine cable that will transform Internet access and telecommunications in Cape Verde.
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This year’s SubOptic 2019 Masterclasses will open their doors to a brand-new audience next month. SubOptic will welcome to its triennial conference students of New Orleans’ Tulane University Physics and Computer Science departments to take part in a day of Masterclasses.
Prysmian Group has been awarded a contract worth approximately €30 million by PGL (Provence Grand Large), a floating offshore wind farm project located in South France, which is part of EDF Renewables, for the development of a turn-key submarine cable system.
Update on A&NI Cable Project
Progress on the Chennai and Andaman & Nicobar Islands (CANI) submarine cable system is being made, with the marine survey well underway.
Each year, the International Cable Protection Committee (ICPC) sponsors the Rhodes Academy Submarine Cables Writing Award for a deserving paper addressing submarine cables and their relationship with the law of the sea.
SEACOM to Provide Kenya-SA Connections
SEACOM has announced that it will now offer direct connections from its East Africa network to public cloud networks and data centers located in South Africa. This follows the launch of Microsoft’s enterprise-grade data centers in Johannesburg and Cape Town.
Trans-Caspian Cable Being Discussed
Well, that didn’t take long. Last August, we discussed the possibility that a submarine cable across Caspian Sea could be developed following a multi-national agreement on its legal status.
The Impact of Free Trade and Technology on Africa
Editor’s Note: SCW has been highlighting two important global developments that have the potential to impact the submarine fiber optic cable market: Africa’s economic growth and changing trade routes. Both of these can be seen in the following article, By Pedro Guerreiro, Managing Director: Central Africa at SAP Africa.
Retelit Reports Strong Results in Part from AAE-1 Sales
Italian telecom operator Retelit announced strong 2018 financial results impacted, in part, by a large sale of capacity on the AAE-1 submarine cable system linking countries in the Pacific, Indian Ocean and Mediterranean.
Ocean Specialists, Inc. (OSI) is pleased to announce the completion of the Desktop Study (DTS) and Budget Analysis Projects for the Early Warning Offshore Cascadia system being developed by the University of Washington.
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