French-American vendor Alcatel-Lucent began laying a fibre-optic cable between Venezuela and Cuba on 22 January.
The ALBA-1 cable will have 640Gbit/s of capacity. It will bring increased connectivity to Cuba, which currently relies heavily on satellite…
French-American vendor Alcatel-Lucent began laying a fibre-optic cable between Venezuela and Cuba on 22 January.
The ALBA-1 cable will have 640Gbit/s of capacity. It will bring increased connectivity to Cuba, which currently relies heavily on satellite services for internet access.
The contract was signed with Alcatel-Lucent Shanghai Bell (Alcatel-Lucent’s flagship company in China) and the Venezuelan telco Telecomunicaciones Gran Caribe (acting as the customer) in July.
The project will also involve a cable being laid between Cuba and Jamaica. In Alcatel-Lucent’s original announcement in July, it said that the project should be complete by the second half of 2011.
