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MDM Announced Two New Trans-Atlantic Cables Linking The US To Ireland: Narwhal1 & Narwhal2

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An Irish company, MDM, whose founding members have done a lot of design work for hyperscalers, has announced it is building two Trans-Atlantic cables in addition to its Pisces project that will connect Ireland to Europe. The estimated construction cost is $500 million. The network is a classic dual ring design where the Northern cable lands at Galway and on Long Island. Now there are several Long Island cable landing stations and MDM already operates one in Galway. So MDM may use these existing facilities for its project. In contrast, the Southern cable is expected to land at a new CLS on Ireland's South Coast. On the US side it will land in New Jersey where it will probably use the existing Wall Township CLS. I have concerns about this project because there is nothing to indicate it is fully funded. In fact, the last carrier financed and led project across the Atlantic was Aquacomms' AEC-1 cable that went live in 2016. EXA recently purchased Aquacomms and all its Atlantic ass...
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Tip For Calculating Fiber Optic Latency

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Light takes .489 milliseconds or roughly a half millisecond to go 100 kilometers. Get the route miles and you have a great approximation because optical amplifiers or end point electronics have little impact. So Dunant is 13,200 kilometers CLS/CLS. That is 132 times a half millisecond or 66 milliseconds RTD. For full details, click on https://www.m2optics.com/blog/bid/70587/calculating-optical-fiber-latency. 
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Americas Connect: Google's Three New Cables

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Google announced today three new cables: Alisios, Canoa, and Olaluz. President Trump will not be happy with the names. Not American enough. Alisios is a Spanish word denoting the trade winds that cross the Carribean and the Equator. This cable will connect the Dominican Republic to Chile via Panamanian landings. So it will include new long haul fiber routes across Panama. Canoa links the Dominican Republic to Bermuda, where both of Google's new Trans-Atlantic cables, SOL and Nuvem, will also land. So similar to the Pacific where Google is landing six cables on Guam to create its own traffic exchange point, Bermuda is becoming another major private switching center for Google traffic. Traffic between Europe and the Caribbean or the West Coast of South America can now bypass the United States, improving resiliency, yet reducing latency. Indeed, traffic between Europe and Australia can now be routed via Chile because Google's Humboldt cable will link Chile and Austra...
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Equiano 100G Wave LS1/CT1: $18.5K MRC

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Two year term.
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Musk & Starlink: How Ego Makes Rich Men Stupid

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"It's not out of the question that, at some point, Starlink will operate most of the world's internet," Musk said." Despite this optimism, shares of SpaceX fell by more than 7% in after hours trading on Tuesday, wiping out gains made during the day.
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WACS Is Up - Outage Lasted 1 Month, 1 Week, and 6 Hours 🙂

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2Africa Ivory Coast Branch Live Again and WACS Under Repair

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The 2Africa cable has been up and down since Wednesday. Repair was declared completed and all services live Friday Morning Abidjan time. WACS should be fixed by Wednesday next week.
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