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September 28, 2018

RIP: Sir Charles Kuen Kao – Fiber Optic Pioneer

By John Dixon in Assured Forwarding, Historic Tag ARM, bandwidth, BBC, Belgium, Cable, China, development, Fiber, George Smith, hong kong, IBM, itt, Mobile, recognition, research, rip, shared, Sir Charles Kao, standard, stc, stl, subsea, switzerland, UK, usa, Willard Boyle

This week marks the death of Sir Charles Kuen Kao, one of modern networking's pioneers. He died on Sunday 23 September 2018, aged 84. Born in Shanghai in 1933, Charles…

August 12, 2017

SEA-US cable ready for service, allowing trans-Pacific growth

By John Dixon in News Byte Tag Americas, Asia, Cable, California, globe telecom, guam, hawaii, hawaiian telcom, hong kong, indonesia, Internet, NEC, philippines, rti, sea-us, singapore, subsea, telin, usa

Hawaiian Telcom has announced that the SEA-US cable system is ready for service. The cable was built and delivered in less than 3 years since its announcement. With traffic growth…

July 4, 2017

AAE-1 now in service links Asia, Africa and Europe

By John Dixon in News Byte Tag Africa, Asia, bandwidth, Cable, Cambodia, capacity, djibouti, egypt, Europe, france, greece, hong kong, india, italy, latency, malaysia, myanmar, oman, pakistan, qatar, saudi arabia, singapore, subsea, technology, thailand, uae, vietnam, yemen

AAE-1 is the Asia-Africa-Europe-1 consortium that manages the largest cable system launched this decade. It provides links to the major regions. The cable will offer a minimum design capacity of…

August 30, 2014

NEC to construct SEA-US cable system

By John Dixon in News Byte Tag Americas, Asia, bandwidth, Cable, capacity, globe telecom, guam, hawaii, hawaiian telcom, hong kong, indonesia, NEC, philippines, rti, sea-us, singapore, telin, usa

Hawaiian Telcom announces that it has partnered with NEC, and others, to deliver a 20Tb/s 15,000km long cable system. This will link the continental US to Hawaii, and then onwards…