Monday, October 10, 2022

Deep Blue One submarine cable, a partnership model with different overtones for Digicel and Orange

It is scheduled to come into operation in the Caribbean, by the end of 2024 or the beginning of 2025. It will also be interconnected with Orange's Kanawa cable and Digicel's SCF. Peter Hobbs, director of Grupo Digicel for International Business and Wholesale, gave Convergencialatina details of the project.

The Deep Blue One cable, 2,000 kilometers long, is a Digicel and Orange project to connect French Guiana, Suriname, Guyana and Trinidad & Tobago. It will be operated by Digicel, as owner of the laying, and Orange will have a fiber pair. It is a partnership model, in which the French operator sought diversity for the connectivity provided to French Guiana. In Digicel's case, it has three goals with the Deep Blue One: to support its own operation, in a region where hyperscale players don't typically land with data centers or local zones; allocate additional submarine capacity for the Oil & Gas sector; and guarantee resilience, especially due to the imminent expiry of the supposed useful life of the Americas II, in 2025, which will leave a "gap" in the area.

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