Alan Mauldin, a research director at TeleGeography, explains how, as international bandwidth demand continues to surge, the need for new submarine cables heralds capacity issues with the international cable maintenance vessel fleet.
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Chile has signed an agreement with Google to lay a submarine cable connecting Chile to Oceania. Desarrollo País S.A., a state-owned infrastructure developer, and the Office of Posts and Telecommunications of French Polynesia will be responsible for installing the cable. Google joined the consortium in January 2024.
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Aqua Comms, a multinational provider of global subsea connectivity services, has made a long-term lease agreement for its Trans-Atlantic subsea spectrum with Energy Sciences Network (ESnet), the high-performance network built to support scientific research.
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Tyson Johnston, chairman of Toptana Technologies, introduces the Quinault Indian Nation’s internet access solution for unserved and underserved communities.
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A team of researchers with the National Physical Laboratory and the University of Edinburgh, Google and Istituto Nazionale di Ricerca Metrologica developed a way to use existing undersea fiber cables to detect seismic events.
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Ocean Specialists, Inc. (OSI), a global provider of specialized subsea technical services and marine operations, announced the award of an Engineering, Procurement, Installation, and Commissioning (EPIC) contract for the testing and evaluation of prototype fiber-optic cables designed for deployment in saltwater.
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