25-Km Submarine Cable to Connect Bahrain to Hawar Islands

wirecableNovember 20, 2018August 27, 2021

November 20, 2018August 27, 2021

Work on the project is scheduled to start in the first half of next year and conclude in the last quarter of 2020. November 1, 2018 Bahrain’s plan to use submarine power cables to connect Hawar Islands to mainland Bahrain will be launched to tenders in November. The 25-km power......

Global Cloud Xchange Announces Plan for New Subsea Cable Between Mumbai and Singapore

wirecableJuly 3, 2014August 2, 2014

July 3, 2014August 2, 2014

June 19, 2014 Global Cloud Xchange (GCX) announced its latest investment into the Asia Pacific region. The new ICX cable infrastructure is part of the company’s strategy to provide a direct subsea route to bridge an important gap in the emerging markets corridor, specifically delivering a direct Mumbai-Singapore route to......

Bharti Expands i2i Submarine Cable with Ciena

wirecableJuly 3, 2014August 2, 2014

July 3, 2014August 2, 2014

March 19, 2014 Ciena Corporation, the network specialist, announced that i2i, a venture of Bharti Airtel Limited, has completed a submarine network upgrade spanning from India to Singapore using Ciena’s converged packet optical and network management solutions. The upgrade leverages a flexible 100G ROADM-based infrastructure that has enabled Bharti to......

The world’s largest submarine cable

wirecableAugust 31, 2012September 12, 2012

August 31, 2012September 12, 2012

June 29, 2012 nkt cables has engineered, developed, manufactured, installed and commissioned a 245 kV 3 core high voltage submarine cable. With a diameter of 270 mm it is the largest submarine cable in the world. The cable route is approx. 24.5 km, connecting the GIS station at Grenaa with......

BRICS-US cable project gains Chinese, South African support

wirecableJune 8, 2012September 13, 2012

June 8, 2012September 13, 2012

April 19, 2012 South African firms i3 Africa and Imphandze have received formal support from the governments of China and South Africa for a proposed 34,000 km submarine cable linking the BRICS countries – Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa – to the US, it was announced at the......