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The cable is operated by four telecommunications companies: Algar Telecom, Angola Cables, ANTEL, and Google. [1] [2] [3] Equinix was selected by the Monet Submarine Cable investors to provide U.S. facilities and services for the cable landing station, terminating in the U.S. at Equinix's MI3 International Business Exchange data center. [4]
Each fiber can carry 30 wavelengths at a time. SDM or spatial division multiplexing submarine cables have at least 12 fiber pairs which is an increase from the maximum of 8 pairs found in conventional submarine cables, and submarine cables with up to 24 fiber pairs have been deployed.
The International Cable Protection Committee — at ISCPC.org, includes a register of submarine cables worldwide (though not always updated as often as one might hope) United Kingdom Cable Protection Committee — at UKCPC.org.uk; Kingfisher Information Service — at KISCA.org.uk, source of free maps of cable routes around the United Kingdom ...
Dunant is the first new subsea cable between the US and France in 15 years and will have landing stations at Virginia Beach (US) and Saint-Hilaire-de-Riez (France). [3] [4] Telecoms industry analysts have stated that the main purpose of Google's subsea cable investment is twofold: to support quality of service and reduce costs. [5]
The Equiano cable, which will link Europe with western and southern Africa was named for Olaudah Equiano, a Nigerian-born writer and abolitionist. [7] The cable was built and laid by Alcatel-Lucent Submarine Networks (ASN). [8] [9] Equiano is viewed as part of Google’s five-year, $1 billion plan that aims to boost digital services across Africa.
Hibernia Networks, alternately known as Hibernia Atlantic, was a privately held, US-owned provider of telecommunication services. It operated global network routes on self-healing rings in North America, Europe and Asia including submarine communications cable systems in the North Atlantic Ocean which connected Canada, the United States, the Republic of Ireland, the United Kingdom and mainland ...
This technology was developed in co-operation with SubCom, formerly a TE Connectivity company, [10] who built the cable and which also worked with Google on the Dunant and Curie cables. [ 11 ] The cable route comprises a 6,250 km stretch from New York to Widemouth Bay , Cornwall [ 12 ] and a 6,300 km route between New York and Bilbao .
FASTER is a trans-Pacific submarine communications cable that went live during the last week of June 2016. [1] The cable has a total length of approximately 11,629 km [2] and a capacity of 60Tb/s. [3] The companies involved in the project include: [1] [3] Google; KDDI; SingTel; China Telecom Global; China Mobile International; Global Transit ...