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Metro Optic, Crosslake Fibre, and Utilities Kingston announce today their plans to build a new fibre-optic cable system from Montréal to Toronto. The project will be developed by Maple Leaf Fibre Ltd., a joint venture of two leading independent Canadian providers of fibre optic network capacity, Crosslake Fibre ULC based in Toronto, Ontario and Metro Optic based in Montréal, Quebec. The Maple Leaf Fibre cable system will have a terrestrial segment between Montréal, Ottawa, and Kingston, and a submarine segment through Lake Ontario between Kingston and downtown Toronto.

Research and development of innovative solutions in the energy field, focusing in particular on renewable energy. With this objective in mind, Enel created its new 'Innovation Hub & Lab' in Passo Martino, in the province of Catania. It is a 100,000 square metre complex with latest-generation laboratories, ready to host start-ups, small and medium-sized enterprises and other national and foreign companies, as well as world-class research centres. The technologically cutting-edge facility was inaugurated today, with Salvo Pogliese, the Mayor of Catania, Antonio Cammisecra, Head of Enel Green Power (EGP), Enel's Global Renewable Energy Division, and Ernesto Ciorra, Enel’s Head of Innovability (Innovation and Sustainability) in attendance.

OMC's Keyed SMA (KSMA) fibre optic system launched last October is now available in all of its standard SMA diode housings.

Researchers from Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, and Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia, have demonstrated a 4,000km fibre-optic transmission link using ultra low-noise, phase sensitive optical fibres.

NEC has announced being chosen to construct the new 16,000km Bay to Bay Express Cable System (BtoBE), which is being funded by a consortium including Facebook, Amazon Web Services (AWS), and China Mobile International to connect Singapore and Hong Kong with the United States.

The installation of the prestressed cable system, which will become part of the protective shell of the first unit of the Belarusian nuclear power plant, has been completed, BelTA learned from representatives of ASE Company (the general designer and the general contractor of the project to build the nuclear power plant, the engineering division of the Russian state nuclear industry corporation Rosatom).

South Korea’s leading power cable manufacturer LS Cable & System Ltd. said on Tuesday it has signed a five-year contract to provide power cables to Western Power Corporation, a power supplier owned by the Western Australian Government. The value of the contract was not disclosed.

Enel S.p.A. ("Enel"), acting through Enel X International S.r.l. (“Enel X International”), a fully-owned subsidiary of Enel X S.r.l. (“Enel X”), the Enel Group advanced energy solutions company, has signed an agreement with a holding company controlled by the Sixth Cinven Fund, which is managed by international private equity firm Cinven, to acquire, for 150 million euros, about 21% of the share capital of a vehicle company ("NewCo") to which 100% of Ufinet International will be transferred. The latter is a leading wholesale operator of fibre-optic networks in Latin America. In turn, the Sixth Cinven Fund will own around 79% of the NewCo’s share capital.

A French company that builds high-voltage cables in Goose Creek for the power industry is adding underwater cables to the site's product mix as part of an $80 million expansion.

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