The International Cable Protection Committee (ICPC) will hold its 2025 ICPC Plenary on April 15–17, 2025, in Montreal, QC, Canada. This year’s theme, “The Big Squeeze: Geopolitics & Spatial Planning,” reflects the increasing pressures on marine space and the critical need for international dialogue as global demand for secure, resilient submarine cable infrastructure continues to…
Our interconnected world relies on fast, reliable, and high-capacity communications. Connectivity is crucial whether an individual is engaged in remote work or a data center supports a corporate entity. Our subsea network must continually grow and enhance to meet these increasing demands. On Sunday, January 21st, PTC’24 begins its conference with its annual Subsea Cable…
Telecom Egypt, SubOptic, and the Arab Academy for Science, Technology, and Maritime Transport recently hosted its first Egypt SubOptic Symposium 2023 in Cairo, attracting a diverse group of young, enthusiastic professionals and undergraduate students specializing in engineering and maritime studies. This was the final SubOptic Symposium in 2023, after Symposia earlier this year in South…
Industry leaders worldwide from the subsea cable sector are heading to Singapore later this month for Submarine Networks World 2023! As the world’s leading annual submarine communications gathering, Submarine Networks World focuses on critical issues in the subsea community. This global 2-day conference takes place September 27-28 and will boast 800+ attendees, 100+ speakers and…
SubOptic 2023, the industry-renowned submarine telecoms conference, will take place on March 13-16, in Bangkok, Thailand. It’s likely well over 500 people will attend the 4-day triennial event, which is the longest-running and most comprehensive conference series in the world for the submarine cable industry. DRG is looking forward to catching up with everyone. This…
The SubOptic Foundation Symposia, an educational outreach program series aimed at the next generation of subsea cable industry leaders, recently ramped up into full gear following earlier successes in both France and Japan, with events this month in the UK, Japan, and Americas. WAVE was held this week at the iconic BT Tower in London, where…
DRG is truly pleased to be supporting another cable linking Ecuador, Colombia and Panama to the USA. CSN-1, now fully in force, is likely to be the first new Pan-Caribbean submarine network constructed in several years, offering the potential of new, critical connectivity to these (and potentially additional) Latam countries, whose existing international infrastructure might…
DRG is pleased to see the continued progress of our client, CINTURION, with the TEAS project. Read the complete article here.
DRG is pleased to continue supporting SubOptic initiatives through our membership and through a variety of volunteer activities. Please see the annual newsletter summarizing many of the programs SubOptic has underway. Read the newsletter in its entirety, here.
The International Cable Protection Committee (ICPC) call for papers is open for the upcoming 2022 ICPC Plenary. Taking place on April 28, 2022 in Madrid, Spain at the NOVOTEL Madrid Center, the theme for the upcoming Plenary is Installing, Operating and Maintaining Resilient Submarine Cable Infrastructure in a Rapidly Evolving Global Environment. DRG is a…