Source: ASN Submarine cable technology has evolved a lot since the first cables were put into operation in the 19th century for telegraph communications. Improvements have been made in aspects such as the form of transmission (pairs, coaxial, fibre optic), cable protection and insulation, signal transmission (analogue and digital from copper to fibre optic) and […]
Submarine fibre optics as a key to the metaverse One of the words we are going to hear most this year in the digital sphere is metaverse. Since Facebook (now renamed Meta) announced its commitment to this new world of immersive virtual reality, interest in how the Internet of the future will evolve has been […]
Barcelona Cable Landing Station will have a direct extension to BitNAP, a neutral data center that allows connection to the main operators As a neutral data center, bitNAP does not depend on any single provider and allows access to a wide range of operators to select the appropriate connectivity. Operators connected to bitNAP will have […]
The rise of teleworking and the need to strengthen better connections The stupor caused by the presence of covid-19 in our lives and the drastic changes we had to assume were, to a large extent, palliated by an essential good in the 21st century: The Internet and the possibility of staying connected, from our homes, […]
Barcelona Cable Landing Station, the future international station for submarine fiber-optic cables promoted by AFR-IX Telecom, has finished the works carried out on the Sant Adrià de Besòs Beach. Barcelona CLS finishes works at the beach These works that started in October, culminate the first preparatory phase to accommodate the submarine fiber-optic cables that will […]
Barcelona Cable Landing Station begins the first international submarine cable landing station in Catalonia This is a key infrastructure that will become the destination of high-capacity fiber optic submarine cables of Asia, Africa and the Mediterranean. It will be an open port and will come into operation the first quarter of 2022 with the aim […]
