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Adaptive Networks and Open Cables: Ciena's talks submarine cable evolution

2021-08-02 02:00:00| Total Telecom industry news

The last 18 months have been disruptive—bringing the importance of the telecoms industry and connectivity to the forefront of critical infrastructure discussions. How have network operators coped with the pandemic and what changes will affect the future of networking? Network operators the world over have always designed, deployed, managed, and maintained networks based on the assumption that it’s critical infrastructure. This was traditionally referred to as ‘carrier grade’. The pandemic emphasised the importance of networks to end-users—consumers and businesses, humans and machines—as countries went into lockdown mode forcing people to work…read more on TotalTele.com »

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ACE submarine cable brings connectivity to West Coast of Africa

2021-06-30 02:00:00| Total Telecom industry news

Today, the Africa Coast to Europe (ACE) submarine cable has gone live, available for interconnection at all three of Teraco’s data centres across South Africa. The cable, which represents a total investment of around $700 million, covers roughly 17,000km along the West Coast of Africa and up into Europe…read more on TotalTele.com »

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China tensions sink another submarine cable

2021-06-21 02:00:00| Total Telecom industry news

The story of the East Micronesia Cable System (EMC) goes back to around 2018, when the Asian Development Bank and the World Bank first agreed to co-finance a submarine network linking the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM), Kiribati, and Nauru to a transpacific cable system connecting Australia and Hawaii. The cable was planned to help connect the Micronesian subregion to the rest of the world…read more on TotalTele.com »

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Two-day underwater avalanche severed West African submarine cables

2021-06-08 02:00:00| Total Telecom industry news

In the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, the telecoms industry has found itself in the spotlight more than ever before. Connectivity is coming to be considered the fourth utility, integral to so much of our business and private lives. But despite this new-found respect for the importance of connectivity, the real backbone of the telecoms world, the submarine cable industry, often goes unnoticed and, perhaps, underappreciated…read more on TotalTele.com »

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