2Africa Pearls system lands in Bahrain
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14 July 2025
Saudi Arabia’s stc has reported that the 2Africa Pearls cable system has landed in Bahrain, next to Seef District, which it says will reinforce the country as a significant ICT hub in the MENA region.
The 2Africa Pearls system spans 45,000km across Asia, Africa, and Europe with 46 cable landing stations in 33 countries and a designed capacity of 180Tbps. According to stc, the cable was officially connected to Bahrain last month.
Find out more Australia and Papua New Guinea ponder three new subsea cables
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07 July 2025
The governments of Australia and Papua New Guinea (PNG) are in discussions regarding the potential development of three new subsea cable systems aimed at expanding PNG’s digital infrastructure.
PNG’s Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) confirmed that it recently dispatched a delegation to Canberra to consult with Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) and the Australian Infrastructure Financing Facility for the Pacific (AIFFP) to explore possible support for the project.
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Powering surging data demands across APAC with wavelength
02 July 2025
Warren Aw, Chief Commercial Officer at Epsilon
As digital transformation accelerates across the Asia-Pacific, service providers are facing increasing pressure to deliver high-capacity, low-latency connectivity that can support cloud, AI and real-time applications. Enterprises are demanding faster, more reliable access to data and services, and legacy network infrastructure is struggling to keep up with the rapid rate of growth.
Spending on AI across the APAC region is expected to reach $175 billion by 2028, according to IDC. Mission-critical use cases – from real-time financial trading, large-scale data transfer and cloud access, to network expansion, application orchestration and content delivery – are driving unprecedented demand for ultra-fast connectivity. Data demands are continuing to surge alongside this growth, and there is a huge opportunity for APAC service providers to adapt and future-proof their connectivity to stay competitive.
Find out more Nokia and Converge ICT to future-proof data centres with AI-driven network fabric
01 July 2025
Nokia has entered into a partnership with Philippine fibre broadband provider Converge ICT Solutions to deploy its advanced data centre fabric technology, aimed at supporting AI and automation in Converge’s upcoming data centres.
As part of the agreement, Converge ICT will implement Nokia’s 7220 Interconnect Router (IXR) data centre switches, which operate with the next-generation SR-Linux network operating system (NOS) and an event-driven automation (EDA) platform. The EDA platform is designed to deliver faster response times, consistent high performance, and reduced energy consumption through efficient use of computing resources. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
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