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Retail Asia25/06/2019

Huawei is reportedly planning to sell its subsea cable business according to a buyer’s filing. Made on 31 May 2019 to the Shanghai Stock Exchange, the filing showed that Hengtong Optic-Electric Co, an optical telecoms network vendor, had signed a letter of intent with Huawei Technologies to buy its 51% stake in Huawei Marine Systems. […]

Retail Asia10/05/2019

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Indonesia’s XL Axiata has engaged Infinera to modernize both its South Sumatra terrestrial network and its Singapore-to-Jakarta subsea network for the 5G era. Under the agreement, Infinera will provide its XTC platform for the South Sumatra terrestrial network and the Jakarta-Bangka-Batam-Singapore (B2JS) cable. The XTC platform is powered by Infinera’s Infinite Capacity Engine solution, which […]

Retail Asia19/10/2018

Solomon Islands Submarine Cable Company Limited (SISCC) has contracted prefabrication consultant and critical infrastructure building design builder XSite Modular to build four modular cable landing stations in the Pacific nation. The new cable landing stations will be deployed in Honiara, Auki, Noro, and Taro, and will form part of the Solomon Islands’ planned new subsea […]

Retail Asia02/04/2018

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Huawei Marine has commenced the second phase of its Sorsogon-Samar Submarine Fiber Optical Interconnection Project (SSSFOIP) for the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP). The phase two rollout, which involves the deployment of a 12.8Tbps subsea cable connecting Sorsogon and Samar, is expected to be complete in the third quarter. The dedicated cable will […]

Retail Asia27/06/2017

Repair work on the broken international cable won’t start until July 3 and will take at least 10 days to complete. International internet connections in Vietnam are likely to remain slow for another three weeks with repair work to a major internet cable which broke off central Vietnam last week expected to take until July […]

Retail Asia06/06/2017

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IOX Cable Ltd and Nokia’s Alcatel Submarine Networks last week announced plans to build the IOX Cable System in the Indian Ocean. The new submarine cable will connect the eastern coast of South Africa with the eastern coast of India, hooking up the islands of Mauritius and Rodrigues along the way. It will span 8,850km […]

Retail Asia15/05/2017

Japan’s NEC has announced it has become the first vendor to achieve a transmission capacity of over 50Tbps over a distance greater than 10,000km using a single optical fiber. The new development could pave the way for significantly faster subsea cables spanning trans-Pacific distances, helping the industry meet surging traffic demands in the APAC region. […]

Retail Asia20/03/2017

A new subsea cable connecting Malaysia, Cambodia and Thailand has been launched in Cambodia, adding at least 30Tbps of regional capacity. The Malaysia-Cambodia-Thailand (MCT) cable system was designed and deployed by Huawei Marine for Cambodia’s EZECOM, Telekom Malaysia and Symphony Communication of Thailand. The 1,300km cable system uses 100Gbps technology, and will connect to other […]

Retail Asia16/03/2017

Cable manufacturer Prysmian Group has supplied what it says is the densest and highest fiber count subsea cable ever made. The company has delivered a FlexTube cable containing 1,728 optical fibers for Australia’s Superloop for the TKO Express project. TKO Express is a project to provide broadband connectivity between the aras of SiuSai Wan on […]

Retail Asia18/01/2017

Hawaki Submarine Cable and TE SubCom have completed the route survey for the 14,000km Hawaiki transpacific cable system linking Australia and New Zealand with mainland US. With the successful completion of the survey, the companies remain on track to complete the deployment of the cable in mid-2018. Once complete, the carrier-neutral cable system will be […]

Retail Asia15/10/2016

Alcatel-Lucent Submarine Networks and Nokia Bell Labs have set a new transmission record over a 6,600km single mode fiber for transoceanic cable systems. The lab trial achieved a total transmission speed of 65Tbps using submarine grade dual band erbium doped fiber amplifiers. The trial used Bell Labs’ new probabilistic constellation shaping (PCS) modulation technology. PCS […]

Retail Asia30/09/2016

Hawaiki Submarine Cable, the New Zealand based company building a cable between Australia, New Zealand, Hawaii and the continental US, has selected its landing and operating partner in the US state of Oregon. Hawaiki has signed a landing party agreement with Alaska Communications after completing the maritime survey of the 4,000km segment between Oregon’s Pacific […]

Retail Asia12/09/2016

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A new subsea cable company has contracted Huawei Marine Networks to deploy a 250km cable system connecting Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia. Super Sea Cable Networks (SEAX) has commissioned construction of its SEAX-1 cable, which will connect Mersing on the eastern seaboard of Peninsular Malaysia with Singapore’s Changi and Indonesia’s Batam. Construction of the 24-fiber-pair system […]

Retail Asia09/09/2016

Indonesia’s PT Telkom has contracted NEC to build a cable system connecting six of the nation’s large islands with Singapore. The Indonesia Global Gateway Cable System will link the islands of Sumatra, Batam, Java, Bali, Kalimantan and Sulawesi. As well as providing enhanced connectivity between nine major Indonesian cities, the cable will link to Singapore […]

Tag: subsea

Huawei to sell subsea cable business

XL Axiata upgrading fiber network for 5G era

SISCC taps XSite Modular for subsea cable landing stations

Huawei Marine to deploy subsea cable for NGCP

Undersea internet cable out of action for another three weeks in Vietnam

IOX Cable to build new Indian Ocean cable

NEC sets long-haul subsea cable record

Malaysia-Cambodia-Thailand subsea cable launches

Prysmian group claims record for densest subsea cable

Hawaiki completes route survey for subsea cable

ASN, Bell Labs set 65Tbps subsea cable speed record

Hawaiki picks US landing partner for subsea cable

Malaysia-Singapore-Indonesia cable commissioned

Telkom contracts NEC for new subsea cable