NEC has announced that they have completed the Palau Spur cable which connects to the main SEA-US cable. (BSCC and NEC announce the completion of a new submarine cable linking…
South Atlantic submarine cable links USA and India
An agreement between Seaborn Networks and IOX Cable will see a new cable route established between the USA and India. (Seaborn Networks and IOX Cable Ltd to Provide First Subsea…
Quintillion completes Alaskan subsea cable
Quintillion has announced it has completed the first phase of its cable between Japan and the UK. The finished segment runs from Prudhoe Bay to Nome, as well as the…
Seaborn sharpens SABR to link with South Africa
Seaborn Networks, the folks that linked Brazil and the USA together using the Seabras-1 cable are quietly busy. In one of the most low-key launches of a new route, you can't…
BBR improves Google Cloud Platform performance
Google has developed a new TCP congestion control mechanism. This has now been applied to the Google Compute Platform, having previously been added to YouTube and Google.com. This BBR (Bandwidth…
Seabras-1 cable final splice milestone
A new cable between New York, New York, USA and Sao Paulo, Brazil, is almost ready. The SeaBras-1 cable has completed its final splice milestone, with the sub-sea elements completed…
Mellanox launches Spectrum2 switch for 400Gb/s future
Mellanox has launched a new ethernet switch chipset family. Spectrum 2 is an open switch platform with capabilities of 200Gb/s and 400Gb/s per port. As well as high-speed, Mellanox are…
AAE-1 now in service links Asia, Africa and Europe
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…