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Trident selects Equinix data centres for Australia-Asia connectivity
Equinix international business exchange (IBX) data centres in Melbourne, Sydney, Singapore and Indonesia have been selected by Trident Subsea Cable for the cable’s Points-of-Presence (PoPs) in the...
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NEC completes 100Mbps APAC gateway submarine cable
NEC has "finished construction of the Asia Pacific Gateway (APG) Submarine Cable connecting Japan, South Korea, Mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia and Singapore." The APG...
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Partnership sealed to build new trans-Pacific cable
New Zealand cable company Hawaiki Cable and SIL Long Term Holdings, the investment vehicle of Sir Eion Edgar, have signed an agreement to build the Hawaiki submarine cable system. The new trans-Pacific...
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Japanese telcos plan DSL shutdown to favour FttH: report
Fibre to the Home connections are something many Japanese have signed up to in the tens of millions for years, but DSL connections are steadily falling. The latest analyst note on Japan from...
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Hawaiki announces construction of trans-Pacific cable
New Zealand cable operator Hawaiki Submarine Cable has announced the commencement of the construction of a new cable system linking the Land of the Long White Cloud and Australia with the US, finally...
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CCC cries crikey over NBN and Telstra cable co-operation
The Competitive Carriers’ Coalition (CCC) says ‘the latest deal between the NBN and Telstra raises serious questions about how much consumers and competitors are being compromised.’ The CCC is openly...
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In Australia, Prysmian’s Flextube claims another ‘world’s first’
Boasting ‘the highest fibre count cable to date installed in Australia,’ global telco cable system leader Prysmian has claimed another ‘world’s first.’ Prysmian, has ‘marked the launch of local...
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Prysmian claims new tech milestone in ‘Power transmission grids’
Prysmian says its ‘P-Laser 525 kV is the first fully recyclable environmentally friendly HVDC cable’ offering ‘increased power transmission capacity and lower system costs by more than 10%’ Claimed...
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Nokia Bell Labs: ‘world-first’ 10Gbps symmetrical data speeds over DOCSIS 3.1...
Nokia Bell Labs’ XG-CABLE proof-of-concept has demonstrated the feasibility of 10 Gbps Full Duplex DOCSIS 3.1 laid out by CableLabs on traditional HFC cable - do you feel the need for speed? Nokia has...
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Trident selects Equinix data centres for Australia-Asia connectivity
Equinix international business exchange (IBX) data centres in Melbourne, Sydney, Singapore and Indonesia have been selected by Trident Subsea Cable for the cable’s Points-of-Presence (PoPs) in the...
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NEC completes 100Mbps APAC gateway submarine cable
NEC has "finished construction of the Asia Pacific Gateway (APG) Submarine Cable connecting Japan, South Korea, Mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia and Singapore." The APG...
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Campaign to answer 'nation's top NBN questions'
NBN Co, the company building Australia's national broadband network, is launching a campaign to answer what it calls "the nation's top questions" about the NBN. The campaign comes in the wake of...
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Optus says fibre cable cut repaired after 12 hours
An Optus transmission cable that was cut in Melbourne on Monday was restored last night, the company said today. The cable, in the Docklands area of Melbourne, was damaged by a third party. The cut...
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Vocus launches Indonesia link for Australia-Singapore cable
Vocus Communications has officially launched the submarine cable between Australia and Singapore in Indonesia with partner company XL Axiata. The two companies say Monday’s launch in Indonesia...
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Hydro Tasmania probe finds cause of 2015 Basslink cable failure
The cause of the December 2015 failure of the Basslink cable has finally been identified, with two experts saying it happened because Basslink Pty Ltd exceeded its design limit. A statement from Hydro...
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Telstra partners to build two new subsea cable systems between US and Asia
At the PTC conference today in Hawaii, Telstra announced that it "entered into agreements to invest in two new international subsea cable systems that will connect Hong Kong and the west coast of the...
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Telstra woos cable users with boost in speeds
Telstra has gone all out to secure the loyalty of its half a million cable customers on their standard cable speed tier, giving them — at no additional cost — a boost in maximum download speeds from...
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Three quarters of global fixed broadband subscriptions are fibre and cable
Fibre and cable networks are "dominating the global broadband market, with the technologies now servicing 77% of fixed subscriptions", according to new figures. According to the Global Broadband...
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Hawaiki transpacific cable ready-for-service, reshaping comms in the Pacific
Independent telecommunications challenger, Hawaiki Submarine Cable LP, today commenced commercial operations for its 15,000km fibre optic deep-sea cable linking Australia, New Zealand, the Pacific and...
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Qld’s Sunshine Coast to get ‘fastest’ cable connection to Asia
A new international submarine cable contract has been agreed between Queensland’s Sunshine Coast Council and telecoms network operations company RTI-C Connectivity, with claims the cable will deliver...
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