Just over a year after series of incidents affected Vietnam’s international communications network, there have been some new issues: three of Vietnam’s five undersea internet cables are reported to be down.
The East Micronesia Cable System (EMCS) officially landed in Nauru on Saturday, making it the second of four landing points to be completed for the Pacific islands subsea cable system.
Brazil is set to receive its largest delivery of fibre optic cable to date from trade partner China, bolstering efforts to connect remote communities in the north of the country with high-speed internet.
Ciena announced on Monday that Vietnamese telco Viettel has deployed its 800G coherent optics technology to boost the service capacity of its optical backbone network, which will also help Viettel accelerate its 5G rollout.