Google announces two central Pacific cables — Honomoana and Tabua

Google unveiled plans for two new central Pacific subsea cables:Bulikula will connect Guam with Fiji and is the Fijian word for “golden cowrie,” a rare shell found in the Pacific Ocean often worn by local chieftains as a badge of rank. Halaihai, which will link Guam and French Polynesia, is named after a type of vine that grows on beaches. The new cables are part of a central Pacific Connect initiative between Google and a number of partners,...

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Google announces subsea cable connecting Chile-Fiji-Australia

Google announced Humboldt, a subsea cable route linking Chile, French Polynesia, and Australia. This will be the first cable directly connecting South America with Asia-Pacific.The Humboldt cable is named for Alexander von Humboldt, a German polymath, geographer, naturalist and explorer who traveled extensively to the Americas at the turn of the 19th century. Google says the Humboldt project is a reflection of its longstanding commitment to...

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Dell'Oro: Next Gen Coherent DSPs to Drive Optical DWDM Market

Optical DWDM equipment is forecast to reach $18 billion in market revenue by 2028, according to a new report from Dell'Oro Group. The entry of coherent DSPs capable of delivering wavelength speeds over one terabit-per-second is expected to drive the market growth for the next five years. “We are projecting the new generation of coherent DSPs that are capable of terabit speeds will grow at an accelerated pace over the next five years,” said Jimmy...

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Australia's Vocus to deploy 1.6 Tbps with Ciena’s WaveLogic 6

Vocus will deploy Ciena's WaveLogic 6 Extreme (WL6e) 1.6 Tb/s coherent technology across its long haul and metro links. Vocus owns and operates a 25,000km fibre network that is purpose-built and managed for business and government. It connects more than 5,000 buildings across Australian capital cities and is located close to an additional 20,000 buildings.Ciena’s WL6e will support up to 1.6 Tb/s single-carrier wavelengths for metro ROADM deployments...

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Zayo carries 800G wavelength over 1866km with Nokia

Zayo transmitted 800Gb/s over a single wavelength from Los Angeles to El Paso (TX), a span of 1,866km, using Nokia’s sixth-generation Photonic Service Engine super-coherent optics (PSE-6s). The companies also achieved a 1 Tb/s transmission on Zayo’s LA to Phoenix route over 1004km, also using the Nokia PSE-6s.The trial used Nokia’s PSE-6s implemented in the 1830 PSI-M compact modular transport platform equipped with production-ready DMAT6 line...

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AST SpaceMobile lands strategic investments from AT&T, Google, Vodafone

AST SpaceMobile, which is developing space-based cellular broadband network accessible directly by everyday smartphones, announed a strategic investment from AT&T, Google and Vodafone and aggregate new financing of up to $206.5 million in gross proceeds. In addition to the $155 million strategic investment, the company also plans to draw up to $51.5 million from the company’s existing senior-secured credit facility.The strategic investment is...

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Google amps up UK presence with $1 billion data centre investment

Google announced plans to invest $1 billion in a new UK data centre in Waltham Cross, Hertfordshire. The new data center on a 33-acre site will bring crucial compute capacity to businesses across the UK, supporting AI innovation and helping to ensure reliable digital services to Google Cloud customers and Google users in the UK and abroad.https://blog.google/around-the-globe/google-europe/united-kingdom/google-1-billion-investment-in-a-new-...

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QuSecure awarded U.S. Air Force contract

QuSecure, a start-up based in San Mateo, California, has been awarded a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract by AFWERX to address the most pressing challenges in the Department of the Air Force (DAF). QuSecure's QuProtect software will be used by DAF to protect encrypted communications and data with quantum-resilience via quantum secure channels.This contract is part of efforts to streamline the SBIR process, making it more accessible...

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