Google plans $15B subsea cable to boost AI infrastructure

Google has announced a $15 billion dollar subsea cable to establish new digital routes and boost infrastructure for AI. The America-India Connect initiative is a five-year plan extending across four continents. The company intends to establish new digi…

Track improvement work affecting services this Sunday

Track renewal work taking place this weekend will mean buses replace trains between Leicester and Peterborough on Sunday 22 February. Network Rail will be working between Melton Mowbray and Syston East Junction to upgrade 300 yards of track to make journeys smoother and more reliable, reducing the need for future maintenance. The £582,000 investment will […]

Train services resume between New Malden and Twickenham after four-day line closure for upgrades

Train services are running between New Malden and Twickenham in south west London again after Network Rail engineers carried out four days of improvements to the railway. In Kingston, engineers replaced 25 pairs of wheel timbers, the long blocks that support the tracks, on Kingston River Bridge. The team also carried out general maintenance in […]

Normal service at Aberdeen Station following £3.8m track improvements

Normal service will resume at Aberdeen Station this weekend following the completion of essential track upgrades.  The station was closed for the last three weekends while Network Rail delivered £3.8m worth of improvements, aimed at keeping services running reliably for customers.    The work was carried out across platforms 3, 4, 6 and 7, where almost a mile and […]

Taara targets carrier-grade uptime with optical switching

Google moonshot factory graduate Taara aims for carrier-grade uptime with optical switching to fix high-speed wireless backhaul reliability. Operators often face a logistical conflict: bandwidth demands require fibre speeds, but trenching in dense citi…