Int’l Bytes: Telefonica, Sparkle, Subcom, Nokia

Not a great deal of network news so far this week, but here’s a few from around the world to catch up on:

Spain’s infrastructure is taking another hit. A few weeks after a massive power outage took out just about everything including telecommunications networks across a swath of southwestern Europe, emergency and other services have crashed on the Iberian peninsula. The cause this time is said to be a network update from Telefonica that went awry somehow.  They’re working on it.

Sparkle says it has successfully adopted AI to help monitor and manage its network. The AISNA project out AI to work at the company’s NOC, simplifying access to information and automating some repetitive tasks. The company says they have reduced operational handling time of alerts by 30% and sped up network update campaigns by 80%. I expect we’ll hear more of this sort of thing in the months and quarters ahead.

SubCom says it has reached an important milestone, having deployed one million kilometers of subsea cable systems. That’s enough to go around the globe some 25 times, something they’ve done over the past 70 or so years in the communications industry. Lately they have been starting work on the Arctic Way and MANTA cable systems as well as finishing up the ongoing SEA-ME-WE-6 project.

And Nokia’s gear is getting a workout in South Africa. The South African ICT solutions provider is deploying Nokia’s 7750 SR-1 Broadband Network Gateways and Carrier-Grade NAT into their backbone. The upgrade is aimed at improving broadband quality and access for their ISP partners.

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Categories: Artificial Intelligence · Internet Backbones · Telecom Equipment · Undersea cables · Wireless