Filipino incumbent Philippine Long Distance Telephone (PLDT) has teamed up with other regional providers in a USD500 million high-bandwidth fibre-optic submarine cable system project linking Southeast Asia with the US. The Asia America Gateway (AAG) Cable System is a cable project backed by 17 telcos including AT&T, Bharti, BT Global Network Services, CAT Telecom, ETPI, […]
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A group of seven Indonesian telecoms operators plan to build a USD1.5 billion national fibre-optic network to alleviate the country’s overloaded telecoms infrastructure and improve access in remote regions, writes the Financial Times. The paper says the companies will sign a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for the Palapa Ring project today, which will see the
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Ericsson and Telstra have successfully completed the world’s first live network trial for next-generation 40Gbps optical transmission technology in Australia. The technology trial demonstrated that Telstra’s existing 10Gbps Dense Wave Division Multiplexing (DWDM) transmission technology, which carries voice, data and video, can be increased to 40Gbps without major changes to the network. Dan Burns, Telstra