Weaponizing Submarine Fiber Optic Cables - When a July 2015 undersea tremor triggered a rockslide between the islands of Saipan and Tinian in the Northern Marianas Islands, it cut the only fiber-optic cable connecting the archipelago to the global...
Work has commenced on the TransCaspian Fibre Optic Cable which will link Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan, helping to boost connectivity in Central Asia.
The project will be conducted by AzerTelecom on the Azeri side and Transtelcom and KazTransCom on the Kazakh...
Curie, a 10,500-kilometer-long undersea cable, now connects Google data centers in the US and Chile. Today, Google announced that the fiber optic cable has been successfully installed and tested. It is expected to begin transmitting data in the second...
Alaska Submarine Fiber Satellite Network - Quintillion Networks and ATLAS Space Operations today announced plans for North America's highest latitude ground station, to be located 250 miles inside of the Arctic Circle in Utqiagvik, Alaska.
Upon its completion in the...
Indonesia Palapa Undersea Fiber Ring - Jakarta (ANTARA) - Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati admitted to Indonesia not yet having equitable access to digital technology since those residing outside Jakarta capital city and Java Island still encountered difficulties in...
Australia Expands Undersea Cable - Australia has completed the laying of undersea cables for its high-speed internet project in the Solomon Islands and Papua New Guinea, a snub to Chinese tech giant Huawei, which had previously competed for the...
WASHINGTON - The US Justice Department is opposing a bid by Google, Facebook and a Chinese entity to complete an undersea Internet cable between the US and Hong Kong, raising national security concerns over the project that runs out...
The U.S. and Russian submarines are playing a game of cat and mouse above the undersea cables that carry the world's telecommunications and Internet data.
In July 2019, 14 Russian sailors onboard a submarine were killed in an accident. The...
SAN FRANCISCO and PITI, Guam, Aug. 5, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- The management teams of RTI and GTA have entered into a joint venture and are constructing the Gateway Network Connections, LLC (GNC) facility. GNC will serve as Guam's first...
Sunshine Coast-based Auscom has been awarded a million dollar contract to provide a key part of the International Broadband Submarine Cable Network.
The $1 million contract will deliver the land side fibre network, connecting the beach landing to the cable...
