Philippines starts first phase of national fibre plan

26 April 2024

The Philippine government has launched the first phase of its National Fibre Backbone (NFB) project, which it says will boost the country’s economy as well as its digital ambitions.

The Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) reports that NFB Phase 1 comprises a 1,245km cable network from Laoag, Ilocos Norte to Roces, Quezon City.

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Moratelindo opts for Remote Peering to connect customers

25 April 2024

Epsilon Telecommunications has been chosen by Moratelindo to connect customers to a global ecosystem of Internet Exchanges (IXs) via Remote Peering.

This partnership enables Moratelindo’s enterprise customers, carriers, and service providers to extend their network reach and improve content and application performance in the US, Europe, Hong Kong, Japan, and rest of the world, without the need for additional infrastructure investment and physical presence in-country.

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Viettel and Singtel sign MoU on subsea cable

19 April 2024

Viettel Business Solutions has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Singtel to collaborate on deploying the first subsea cable directly connecting Vietnam and Singapore.

The Vietnam-Singapore Cable System (VTS) will be designed with eight fibre pairs using advanced WDM technology. When the cable becomes operational in the second quarter of 2027, it will add hundreds of Tbps to Viettel's total international connectivity capacity.

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HSPnet reports cable breakthrough

18 April 2024

At the beginning of 2024, HSPnet launched high-capacity services of up to 6Tbps on its B3JS (Jakarta-Bangka-Bintan-Batam-Singapore) and BDMCS (Batam-Dumai-Medan) cable systems.

The transmission routes, totaling around 2,000km across both underwater and land cables, are supported by Ciena's WaveLogic Ai-powered 6500 platform.

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