Alcatel-Lucent has won a $500 million contract to build a subsea cable along Africa’s west coast.
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June 9, 2010
AlcaLu wins $500m Africa cable deal
June 8, 2010
Asian bandwidth rates plummet, set to fall further
The gap is narrowing between Pacific and Atlantic bandwidth prices as a result of fresh cable capacity, according to research firm TeleGeography.
It says its latest research shows that capacity still costs five times more on key trans-Pacific and intra-Asian rou
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June 2, 2010
Red tape? In Hong Kong?
It may not quite be a bandwidth boom, but a report for the Hong Kong government predicts continued “high growth” in capacity demand in coming years.
No surprise there, but the Frost & Sullivan study also recommends that the business-friendly territory cut
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January 20, 2010
SingTel, Google & partners sign for new $400m Asian cable
SingTel and six other companies – including Google – have signed an agreement to build the $400 million Southeast Asia Japan Cable system (SJC) – potentially the world’s largest ever cable.
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December 9, 2009
Pacnet announces new India-Asia cable
Pacnet has announced plans to construct a $150 million cable system linking India with Asia, with the eventual goal of offering pan-Indian telecom services.
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November 12, 2009
AAG cable finally opens
The trans-Pacific Asia America Gateway (AAG) club cable finally went live this week, a year behind its initial timetable.
Nineteen carriers, including AT&T, PLDT, Telstra, Telekom Malaysia and StarHub, have invested in the 20,000-km cable, which connects every southeast Asian market with Guam, Hawaii and the West Coast.
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November 3, 2009
Google-backed Unity cable lands in Japan
The Google-invested Unity trans-Pacific cable landed in Japan and will be ready for service in Q1 2010.
The final splice of the 4.8 Tbps million cable will be made off the coast of Japan in the coming two weeks, the consortium said in a press release.
The $300 million cable – Google’s first direct investment in telec
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October 23, 2009
NGN ain’t nothing but a fancy acronym
And now, six (6) things I learned at Optical Transmission Vision APAC in Singapore this week:
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October 22, 2009
Pacnet upgrades again as price cuts, mobile data drive demand
Pacnet is adding another 3.6 Tbps to its EAC-C2C subsea cable system, just six months after its previous upgrade, and may be forced to add more capacity before the end of 2010 to keep up with regional bandwidth demand.
The upgrade, which is kicking off three months earlier than originally planned and will be completed by early 2011, will be implemented across
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