Submarine cables are a main reason why we are connected today. In fact, they provide the connectivity that links almost all of the world’s data centers, where servers process the data that lets us experience the internet and its myriad of applications. As much as it is crucial, establishing a submarine cable is also very challenging.
Together with local partners in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Libya, and Nigeria, DE-CIX is establishing new internet exchanges in Africa to increase the access and quality of the Internet on the continent.
Saudi Arabia sealed a bilateral agreement with Greece to build a new data cable project that will connect Europe with Asia. The completion of the project is estimated by Q4 2025.
Zain Business Limited, a Zain KSA subsidiary, gets approval from the Communications and Information Technology Commission (CITC) to acquire at least 8,069 of the telecom tower sites owned by Zain KSA.
NEC Corporation has been contracted by Seren Juno Network, a company established by NTT Group, Mitsui and JA Mitsui Leasing (JAML) to build the JUNO trans-Pacific subsea fiber-optic cable that will provide the largest data capacity — maximum 350 Tbps — between the US and Japan.
Tampnet has collaborated with Deutsche Telekom and Inmarsat in boosting the capacity of their award-winning European Aviation Network (EAN) inflight broadband solution.
EMIC-1 — the Europe Middle-East India Connect 1 subsea cable — will be a valuable addition to the subsea cables landing in Egypt.
Huawei revealed its next-generation data center facility, alongside the launch of PowerPOD 3.0, a brand-new power supply system. Based on the joint efforts between Huawei Data Center Facility Team and industry experts, these endeavors reaffirm Huawei’s commitment to building low-carbon, smart data centers.
New data centers have been unveiled in Riyadh to provide a wide range of proven and secure public cloud computing solutions, catering to the surging business demand from multiple industries and accelerating their digitalization journey in Saudi Arabia.
NTT is massively expanding its data center capacities worldwide and has now opened its first data center location in the Spanish market.
