Angola Cables has signed a contract to build the world’s first submarine cable system across the South Atlantic with NEC Corporation as the system supplier.
Alcatel-Lucent has signed a four-year frame agreement with Thailand’s True Corporation to supply an IP transport network.
Alcatel-Lucent has partnered with the Internet Society to provide equipment for the Bangkok Internet Exchange Point.
Sierratel has launched new advanced landline services in Sierra Leone. The launch was overseen by consultancy and management firm MDIC.
The consortium behind the Asia-Africa-Europe 1 (AAE-1) submarine cable system project has signed a supply contract with NEC for the S1H segment, which connects Thailand, Vietnam and Hong Kong.
Alcatel-Lucent is launching a 100 gigabit-per-second fibre-optic network with MTN Nigeria.
The Asia America Gateway consortium is upgrading its trans-Pacific cable network using solutions from Ciena to address the growing demand for broadband access.
Televõrgu AS has deployed the ADVA Optical Networking’s 100G Core to connect Northern and Eastern European countries to Central Europe over a route running through the Baltic States and Poland.
Vodacom Business has launched Fibre To The Business (FTTB) services in South Africa.
Thai broadband provider Interlink Telecom is implementing Alcatel-Lucent’s portfolio of Agile Optical Networking solutions across its network.
Entel SA has signed ZTE to build out the first large-scale FTTx network in Bolivia covering all the 4 regions.
India’s Department of Telecoms has stated its aim of deploying a nationwide fibre optic network by June 2016, a year ahead of the original schedule for the initiative.
Algerie Telecom, Algeria’s state-owned operator, has appointed Nokia Networks to upgrade its transport network sites.
Zimbabwean operator Telecel has commenced laying its own optical fibre cable to provide more high capacity data provisioning for the network nationwide.
Malaysian infrastructure provider Sacofa is implementing Packet Transport Networking (PTN) solutions from Tejas Networks in Sarawak.
Seacom has deployed CDNetworks content clusters and caching nodes on its Pan-African IP network footprint in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania.
NEC Corporation subsidiary NEC Neva is supplying Rostelecom with an outdoor, integrated, ultra-compact microwave communications system which supports 70-80GHz E-band communications.
Indian operator Reliance Jio Infocomm is aiming to extend broadband services to 900 cities and towns across the country using optical fibre (FTTx).
Tata Communications and Orange International Carriers have announced an agreement to interconnect their respective IPX (IP-Exchange) communities for voice over IPX and Signalling Sigtran, which allows IP networks to inter-work with the public switched telephone network.
DTAC, Thailand’s second largest mobile operator is to upgrade its 3G network and lay the foundation for a 4G LTE network in partnership with Alcatel-Lucent.
Telecom Namibia has launched international MPLS interconnect services for the first time.
Intelligent transport networks provider Infinera has partnered with pan-African provider Internet Solutions to deploy the former’s DTN-X platform across the company’s South African long distance network.
Infrastructure provider Internexa is using a 100Gbps transponder delivered by NEC to provide optical transmission throughout Colombia.
FiberHome Technologies Group has selected Lantiq’s LTE gateway to provide high performance, cost effective fixed LTE broadband services to the China market.
Fibre to the premises (FTTx) ultra-broadband access will soon be a reality for millions of subscribers in Indonesia following the announcement of plans for a national broadband infrastructure by Telkom Indonesia subsidiary Telkom Akses.
A new collaboration agreement between Tata Communications and Turkcell Superonline will establish a Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) node in Istanbul.
Saudi Arabian market leader Mobily is launching a suite of Advanced Connectivity Services (ACS) in partnership with network specialist Ciena.
Israeli provider Bezeq International has deployed the country’s first 100G optical network using ECI’s Apollo packet-optical transport system.
A consortium of 17 prominent service providers from around the world have come together to construct a new and unique high capacity cable system, Asia Africa Europe-1 (AAE-1).
Ocean Networks has commissioned Xtera Communications for the turnkey supply and installation of its SAPL (South America Pacific Link) submarine cable system.
TIM Brasil has deployed 100G optical networking equipment supplied by Xtera Communication on a long-haul transmission infrastructure in north east Brazil.
There are many factors driving demand for higher capacity connectivity between North and South America, not least of which are the World Cup and the Olympics that Brazil is hosting in the coming years.
TeliaSonera International Carrier has added 11,500 fibre miles (18,400 km) to its global backbone, which will provide diverse connection into South America.
A new partnership between Telecom Namibia, NewTelco SA and German Internet provider Deutscher Commercial Internet Exchange will establish international access points in South Africa and Namibia to the German Internet exchange (DE-CIX).
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