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New Subsea Cables RFS 2025: The Geopolitics Of Unicom’s Cambodia/Hong Kong Cable
This new subsea cable perfectly illustrates how these undersea digital highways have become instruments of political power and foreign policy. The Chinese government is lending the Cambodian government the money required to build a subsea cable that China Uncom will operate for Cambodia and which Hauwei Marine will undoubtedly build. Since it goes to Hong…
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New Subsea Cables RFS 2025: Echo
Transmission Technology: Spatial Division Multiplexing. Length: 16,026 kilometers. Almost 10,000 US miles.Consortium Members: Google and Facebook. Type of Consortium: Open cable model. Construction Status: Behind schedule due to permitting delays for Indonesian waters. Fifty-fifty control probably also slowed decision making. Number of Fibre Pairs: Main trunk has 12.Estimated RFS: 1st or 2nd quarter 2025.Day One Aggregate Throughput: 144…
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IOEMA: The New 48 Fibre Pair Repeatered Subsea Nordic Cable
Type of Cable System: Repeated Two-Core Fibre Pairs With Coherent Optics Consortium Members: Independent Operator.Construction Status: Design and Fund Raising Stage. Number of Fibre Pairs: 48. Number of Cores Per Fibre: 2.Estimated RFS: 1st or 2nd quarter 2027.Day One Aggregate Throughput: 13 Pbps. Salient Features: 48 Pair repeatered cable directly linking UK, Norway, Demark, Germany, and Netherlands. Every fibre…
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What I Do – Telecommunications Procurement
I joined AT&T in 1992 and did statistical forecasting of industry aggregates like voice traffic measured in minutes of use. That experience informed my view that big companies are necessary evils – necessary in that network economies of scale are real, but evil in the sense that governance by consensus results in mediocrity. I eventually…
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The New Subsea Cables RFS 2025 Series: Bifrost
Type of Cable System: Spatial Division Multiplexing. Consortium Members: Amazon, Facebook, Keppel, and Telin.Construction Status: Behind schedule due to permitting delays for Indonesian waters. Number of Fibre Pairs: Main trunk has 12. Some branches have 6. Estimated RFS: 1st or 2nd quarter 2025.Day One Aggregate Throughput: 125 Tbps. Salient Features: First low latency, three digit terabit cable between Singapore…
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