Tag: undersea

Telco/ISP

Next-gen telco chip to speed up submarine links

By Liz Tay | Aug 26, 2011 | Comment Now

Coherent system to overcome fibre bandwidth limits.

Networking

Pacnet joins $447m Sydney-US undersea cable

By Ry Crozier | Jul 28, 2010 | Comment Now

More than $300m shaved off build.

Networking

Southern Cross trials 40Gbps Nortel kit

Aug 13, 2009 | Comment Now

Eyes fourfold bandwidth increase without undersea upgrades.

Telco/ISP

Researchers look to rocks for Aussie internet cable risks

By Ry Crozier | May 1, 2009 | Comment Now

Australian researchers are hoping to examine the sediment layers in Hawaii’s geological landscape to more accurately predict tsunami risks to submarine cables that route 70 per ...

Telco/ISP

Telstra under fire over response to Tassie outage

By Ry Crozier | Apr 21, 2009 | Comment Now

Internode has slammed Telstra’s technical response to a major outage on its Tasmanian wholesale cable overnight, which left the ISP's customers without service for 12 hours.

Telco/ISP

Internode to run Basslink backup on Telstra backhaul

By Ry Crozier | Apr 1, 2009 | Comment Now

Telstra could be an unlikely beneficiary of the Basslink cable after it emerged the new fibre operator will run out-of-band network management over a back-up network supplied ...

Telco/ISP

Two held over undersea cable damage

By Iain Thomson | Apr 15, 2008 | Comment Now

Two ships have been impounded in Dubai after satellite images indicated that they may have been responsible for the damage to undersea cables which left large parts of the ...

Telco/ISP

Undersea cables 'cut by saboteurs'

By Iain Thomson | Feb 20, 2008 | Comment Now

A United Nations official has warned that some of the recent internet outages affecting the Middle East may have been the work of saboteurs..

Telco/ISP

Undersea cables 'highly vulnerable'

By Robert Jaques | Feb 12, 2008 | Comment Now

The recent failure of undersea cables serving the Middle East and North Africa highlights the vulnerability of submarine communications to terrorist and other deliberate attacks..

Telco/ISP

More “bang for buck” for ISPs who jump aboard new undersea cable

By Mitchell Bingemann | Jan 15, 2008 | Comment Now

Internode, iiNet and iPrimus have all jumped aboard PIPE Network’s new $200 million undersea high-speed cable, announcing they will use it to route up to 60 percent of their ...