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In This Issue 74 JAN Voice 2014 of the ISSN 1948-3031 Industry Global Outlook Edition In This Issue: • Global Outlook • Recent Trends in • Submarine Cable System Upgrades • Submarine Cables Add Resilience But Paths Still Matter WEBSITE TRAFFIC - UNIQUE VISITS 55,213 54,367 10-13 53,206 9-13 5-13 50,940 6-13 TOTAL HITS IN 2013: 11,059,916 48,715 47,379 11-13 3-13 53,652 48,474 48,543 4-13 7-13 47,575 12-13 8-13 DOWNLOADS TO DATE 71,651 Issue #71 - Released 7-13 483,319 477,095 370,754 76,204 Issue #72 - Released 9-13 39,058 Issue #73 - Released 11-13 Issue #6 - Released 5-13 Issue #7 - Released 8-13 Issue #8 - Released 11-13 ISSN No. 1948-3031 PUBLISHER: Wayne Nielsen elcome to Issue 74, our Global more exciting given the weather so far MANAGING EDITOR: Kevin G. Summers WOutlook edition. this winter season. I must admit that I am looking forward to some warming sun CONTRIBUTING WRITERS: Stewart Ash, Dr. Does light freeze when it gets too cold? Steve Grubb, Doug Madory, Stephen Nielsen, and green instead of the drab browns and Wayne Nielsen, Kevin G. Summers A frigid Polar Vortex held the US east coast greys. I guess I’m even looking forward in a stranglehold for a few days this month. to seeing a few old faces or two. I suspect Submarine Telecoms Forum magazine is my Aussie friends are looking forward to a published bimonthly by Submarine Telecoms Single Fahrenheit digits were seen as far Forum, Inc., and is an independent commercial south as the Carolinas, and wind chill break in the cooler, milder climate. publication, serving as a freely accessible estimates dropped to -20o in many locales. forum for professionals in industries connected It’s all relative. with submarine optical fiber technologies and It was colder in Virginia than Anchorage, techniques. Submarine Telecoms Forum may Alaska. It was so cold, you could toss a hot So as always, should you be attending not be reproduced or transmitted in any form, cup of coffee in the air and it would freeze PTC 2014, please come by our booth to say in whole or in part, without the permission of before it hit the ground; at least that’s hello; and of course, save me a seat at the the publishers. what the local weatherman videoed. The Mai Tai Bar. Liability: while every care is taken in federal government and local businesses preparation of this publication, the publishers kept their employees home; we were told cannot be held responsible for the accuracy of to stay indoors. the information herein, or any errors which may occur in advertising or editorial content, Being originally from the Midwest, we or any consequence arising from any errors or omissions, and the editor reserves the right faced these kinds of extremes on a yearly to edit any advertising or editorial material basis. I remember 70 below zero one cold submitted for publication. Michigan week during college. It was so cold we didn’t even cross country ski, not Contributions are welcomed. Please forward to the Managing Editor at [email protected]. even with schnapps! It reminds me of that scene from the 80s movie, Crocodile Dundee: “That’s not a Submarine Telecoms Forum, Inc. knife. THAT’s a knife.” 21495 Ridgetop Circle, Suite 201 [click the arrow below to return to the TOC] below to return [click the arrow Sterling, Virginia 20166, USA In other words, it’s all relative. subtelforum.com 3 Copyright © 2014 Submarine Telecoms Forum, Inc. Heading to Honolulu this year is a little In This Issue...[click a page number to visit that article] Exordium Submarine Cable Protection Zones 3 Wayne Nielsen 38 ACMA News Now Back Reflection 6 44 Stewart Ash 9 Global Outlook Stephen Nielsen 48 Conferences Recent Trends in Submarine Cable System Advertiser Index 13 Upgrades 50 Dr. Steve Grubb Coda 51 Kevin G. Summers Submarine Cables Add Resilience But Paths Still 19 Matter Doug Madory Reliability Is King: Celebrating 10 Years of Apollo 25 Stewart Ash [click the arrow below to return to the TOC] below to return [click the arrow 4 2014 Release Timeline Issue 9 Issue 10 STF Today STF Today @State of Issue 11 Issue 12 @PTC @ @ Subsea APR MAR MAY FEB JUN JAN JUL AUG 75MAR 76 MAY SEP 2014 OCT NOV DEC ISSN 1948-3031 2014 74 ISSN 1948-3031 JAN Finance 77 2014 Subsea JUL ISSN 1948-3031 & Legal Capacity 2014 ISSN 1948-3031 78 Global SEP Outlook Regional 2014 79 ISSN 1948-3031 NOV Systems 2014 2015 Offshore ISSN 1948-3031 Energy System Upgrades 13th Edition 5th Edition Issue 3 [click the arrow below to return to the TOC] below to return [click the arrow Submarine Submarine Telecoms 5 Cable Map Industry Calendar Alcatel-Lucent And Nextgen Group Globenet Completes Construction Of New News Complete First Australian Field Trial Subsea Network Extension To Colombia Of 400G Data Transmission Over Live Network Hawaiki Secures US Landing Site; Signs Now Coastcom And Tillamook Lightwave For Alcatel-Lucent to sell LGS Innovations Infrastructure And Backhaul LLC to Madison Dearborn Partners and CoVant ICPC: Call for Papers ASEAN To Focus On 700Mhz ICPC Recommendation On The Proximity Harmonization, Undersea Cable Of Wind Energy Installations And Resilience Submarine Cables Australia Japan Cable Deploys Infinera IFC Invests In Seaborn Networks Intelligent Transport Network China Unicom Expands North American Footprint with New Point of Presence in India’s Reliance Industries, Bharti Sign Seattle Telecom Infrastructure Deal Contract Awarded For Minch Broadband Main One Plans $25M Data Center Cable Northern Submarine Cables Route Comes Convergence Targets West Africa Fibre Online Deals NSA Collects Data From Undersea Cables Digicel Acquires Pan-Caribbean Fiber Assets Ocean Networks Selects Xtera For The Emerald Networks Announces Fibre Turnkey Supply Of The South America Infrastructure Agreement with Geo Pacific Link Submarine Cable System Networks Ocean Networks, Inc. Secures Mezzanine Even Odds For New Internet-Cable Funding For The Purpose Of Developing The South America Pacific Link (SAPL) Submarine Cable System [click a title to read the full article] Orange To Sue NSA Over Underwater Tech Firms Push to Control Web’s Pipes News Cable Hacking Pacnet Upgrades Trans-Pacific Submarine Telmex, America Movil Launch AMX1 Now Cable with Ciena Submarine Cable System Reliance Globalcom Upgrades Trans- Telstra Global Adds 100G To Asia Pac Atlantic Submarine Network with Ciena Unity Submarine Cable Rotterdam Subsea Cable Centre Set Up by TIM Brasil and Xtera Deploy 100G NKT Optical Network Over Challenging G.653 Seacom Hunts In Africa Dispersion Shifted Fiber in North East Brazil Senate To Explore Submarine Cable Tunneling a Cable to Martha’s Vineyard, Security 30 Feet at a Time Southern Cross To Add Another Terabit Turnbull Moves To Simplify Submarine Using Ciena 100G Cable Approval Process Submarine Cable Repair Will Take A Week WFN Strategies to Exhibit at PTC 2014 SubTel Forum Podcast - Episode 8: PTC’14 Xtera's XWDM Paves the Way to 64 Terabit Optical Networking TE Connectivity SubCom Begins Survey Work On USA East Coast And Ireland’s West Coast For Emerald Networks’ Submarine Cable System “Emerald Express” TE Connectivity Subcom Demonstrates Record 13 Tb/S Capacity Over 6,500 Km On Second Installation Of Next Generation Undersea Systems [click a title to read the full article] The Undersea Cable Report 2013 Intelligent intelligence - go beyond the numbers! 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