Optical & Fixed Networks

NTT Communications Corporation has launched the Asia Pacific Gateway (APG), a high-bandwidth optical submarine cable network connecting regions and countries in the Asia.

Botswana Power Corporation (BPC) and Liquid Telecom entered a joint venture that will see the latter lease excess optical fibres from BPC’s network.

Israeli incumbent operator Bezeq is undertaking a countrywide G.fast deployment with Adtran as the prime project vendor.

Telecom Egypt is deploying Ciena’s GeoMesh solution and packet-optical platforms for low-latency connectivity.

Tunisie Telecom (TT) has successfully completed a series of lab and field trials of G.fast technology with Adtran.

Southeast Asian cable operators Mega Vision and CICT are leveraging Calix GPON solutions as they transform portions of their networks to fibre.

NEC Corporation has signed a contract with PT Telekomunikasi Indonesia to develop the Indonesia Global Gateway Cable System (IGG).

Nokia and Orange Polska have successfully completed a pilot project to prepare for the mass migration of Orange's legacy public switched telephone network (PSTN) services to an all-IP network ready to support current and future broadband needs.

PTCL will deploy 789km of fibre for Pakistani operator Zong, enabling delivery of quality telecommunication services across the market.

Vietnamese operator Mobifone is leveraging Ciena technology to build its first high-capacity converged packet-optical network.

Telco Systems has successfully deployed a new 10GE high capacity carrier Ethernet network for the Kenya Education Network (KENET) in Kenya.

TIM Brasil has attained Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF) 2.0 certification for its nationwide Carrier Ethernet business services in Brazil.

Nokia and China Mobile are deploying a GPON (Gigabit Passive Optical Network) mobile backhaul network in the Jiangsu and Henan provinces of China.

iWayAfrica Zambia has announced the launch of its fibre to the premises offer to business and consumers.

A new subsea cable collaboration will connect Muscat in Oman to Karachi in Pakistan.

NTT Communications and Omantel have agreed to collaborate on wholesale IP services at several locations worldwide.

Network solutions provider ECI and Sprint have deployed a greenfield broadband network in Sosnowiec, Poland.

Indian telecoms firm Reliance Jio has announced the launch of its 8,100km Bay of Bengal Gateway cable system, which it claims is the first dark fibre system to be lit at 100 Gbps.

Telefónica has announced the deployment of BRUSA, a new submarine cable linking Rio de Janeiro and Fortaleza (Brazil) with San Juan (Puerto Rico) and Virginia Beach (USA).

Vodafone India has selected Ericsson to manage its optical fibre cable network for three years in 10 telecom circles.

C&W Networks has selected Xtera Communications to upgrade its submarine cable systems in the western Atlantic ocean and the Caribbean Sea to 100G.

A new partnership between Seacom and network provider Ciena will deliver increased reached and enhanced capacity to African ISPs.

Russian operator MegaFon has partnered with China Unicom on its DREAM project.

Indonesia’s Biznet has deployed solutions from Ciena on its 100G fibre-optic terrestrial and submarine networks.

Ocean Networks has appointed Natixis to act as exclusive equity and debt advisor for the South America Pacific Link (SAPL) fibre optic cable system project currently under way.

Seaborn Networks has raised the US$500 million financing for its Seabras-1 direct point-to-point submarine cable connection between New York and São Paulo.

Using G.fast technology, Cable & Wireless Panama in partnership with Huawei have successfully trialled the fastest copper-based broadband service in Latin America.