Alcatel Submarine Networks (ASN) has launched a new cable ship. The company recently announced the inauguration of the Ile d'Yeu, a new cable installation vessel, at the Port of La Rochelle in France.

Construction on Orange’s newest cable ship is close to completion. The Mer et Marine reports Orange Marine’s new cable ship, the Sophie Germain, has left dry dock in its orange and white livery. The ...

TAT-8 was the eighth Trans-Atlantic Telephone system and the first to replace copper transmission with single-mode optical fiber between the United States, the United Kingdom, and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Norwegian-owned ship Silver Dania, suspected of involvement in cable sabotage in the Baltic Sea, has been brought into the ...

Norwegian ship designer and builder VARD has secured on order from France’s Orange Marine for two additional cable laying and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Finnish authorities have taken control of a vessel suspected of damaging a submarine telecommunications cable between Helsinki and ...

History was unmade last year, as engineers began the massive project of ripping the first-ever transoceanic fiber-optic cable from the ocean floor. Just don’t mention sharks.

Just last week, the cutting of optical cables under the Red Sea disrupted internet access in many countries around the world. The cable cuts caused internet outages in several countries in the Middle ...