SYDNEY (Reuters) – The US is working on a counter-offer to stop Chinese telecom giant Huawei Technologies from building internet infrastructure in Papua New Guinea, its top diplomat to Australia said on Friday. The bid Read more…
Ciena announced that carrier-neutral subsea bandwidth supplier Hawaiki Submarine Cable has deployed its GeoMesh Extreme solution based on Waveserver Ai and various packet-optical networking platforms to deliver connectivity to Australia, New Zealand, the Pacific Islands Read more…
Vocus has confirmed that it has switched on its Australia Singapore Cable (ASC) ahead of schedule – before final tests had been completed – following a major service disruption on the SEA-ME-WE3 (SMW-3) submarine cable Read more…
SYDNEY (Reuters) – Pacific nations Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands have signed on to a joint undersea internet cable project, funded mostly by Australia, that forestalls plans by Chinese telecom giant Huawei Technologies Read more…
The Bay to Bay Express Cable System (BtoBE) consortium – which includes China Mobile International, Facebook and Amazon Web Services – has signed an agreement with NEC to build a submarine cable connecting Singapore, Hong Read more…
SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australia has agreed to fund underwater internet cables and a cyber security center for the Solomon Islands, forestalling plans by Chinese telecom giant Huawei Technologies that could have compromised Australian internet security. Read more…
NEC says it has carried out successful transmission tests with Google over a commercial long-haul subsea cable in which it more than doubled capacity using artificial intelligence (AI) and probabilistic shaping at a modulation of Read more…
Telstra announced it has expanded its “Always On” service to provide more bandwidth options and lower latency on some of Asia’s busiest subsea cable routes – Hong Kong to Singapore and Japan to Hong Kong. Read more…
Yet another regional Asia-Pacific submarine cable system is on the way – the 9,500-kilometer Japan-Guam-Australia (JGA) cable system, which is funded partly by Google, officially commenced construction on Wednesday. Ownership-wise, the JGA is technically two Read more…
A new consortium comprising seven APAC telecoms players – plus Facebook – have signed a deal with NEC to build the Southeast Asia-Japan 2 (SJC2) submarine cable connecting nine countries across the region. The SJC2 Read more…
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