Virgin Media is testing in Cambridgeshire, UK, an 8Gb/s cable service to a small subset of subscribers. (Currently, the trial supports eight households, but can extend to 50 over time).…
RIP: Sir Charles Kuen Kao – Fiber Optic Pioneer
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…
West African Internet Outage
Oracle's Dyn service have a research lab, who analyse information from the Internet. In the blog entry below, they look at the recent loss of connectivity on the ACE (Africa…
Palau connects using submarine cable, better performance than satellite
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…
SEA-US cable ready for service, allowing trans-Pacific growth
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…