Sparkle and Mobily sign MoU for Southeast Asia-Europe route
17 October 2024
Sparkle and Mobily have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to create a new route to connect Europe to Southeast Asia and thus meet the growing demand for secured and diversified connectivity between the two continents.
Under the MoU, the parties agreed to leverage on Sparkle’s and Mobily’s terrestrial networks and the AAE1 cable in Jeddah to create a diversified and low latency route that will connect Italy to Saudi Arabia reaching Singapore.
Find out more OMS Group allocates $300 million for ASEAN cables
07 October 2024
OMS Group has allocated US$300 million for strategic investments in its global cable systems and terrestrial infrastructure in the ASEAN region.
The investment will focus on expanding its subsea cable systems and terrestrial infrastructure to meet growing regional demand for digital services driven by the growth of data centres and cloud services in the region.
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IGC deploys next-gen optical transport to DWDM network
07 October 2024
International Gateway Company (IGC) has deployed Nokia’s next-gen optical transport solution to modernize its existing DWDM network in Thailand.
The upgrade boosts capacity on the DWDM network – which connects the east region to Cambodia and the south region to Malaysia – to 400G per wavelength.
Find out more Philippines acts to protect telco infrastructure amidst new threats
07 October 2024
PLDT, its wireless unit Smart Communications, and the government’s Cybercrime Investigation and Coordinating Center (CICC) are spearheading a public-private project to protect telecoms infrastructure.
The project - PROTECTA Pilipinas (a.k.a. Protect Technology-Telecom Alliance) - was launched under an MoU signed by private and public stakeholders. The alliance aims to identify and advocate for measures that enhance the resilience of telecom networks, including redundancy, disaster recovery plans, and cybersecurity protocols.
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