PIPE International has chosen Equinix' Sydney-1 International Business Exchange as the the interconnection point for the Sydney end of its PPC-1 undersea cable.

Tata Communications is now providing  international capacity to and from Australia via Pipe Networks' newly-opened PPC-1 cable system which interconnects with Tata's global submarine cable network in Guam.

Australia Japan Cable (AJC) - the 12,700km submarine link between Australia and Japan, says it has "successfully completed its refinancing, assuring its viability into the future."

Internode has become the first customer to test Pipe Networks' new PPC-1 fibre-optic cable, ahead of its official launch and is promising to revise its access plans to reflect PPC-1's lower connection costs to the US.

Australia Japan Cable (AJC) and Pacific Crossing have launched a gigabit ethernet service across their respective networks for carrier, enterprise, and ISP customers wanting connectivity between Australia and North America.

Pipe Networks has successfully transmitted light from Sydney to Guam across its just-installed PPC-1 submarine cable.

Nortel has successfully demonstrated its DWDM optical transmission technology that it able to deliver 40Gbps per wavelength over the 8000kms of the Southern Cross Cable system between Auckland and Hawaii.

Southern Cross Cable has announced a price cut for services on its submarine cable network linking Australia and New Zealand to the US via Hawaii, and plans to increase capacity by more than 50 percent early in 2010. It has also announced that it is planning an entire new cable system.

Alcatel-Lucent has won a contract to build the 8,200 km SPIN submarine cable network that will link New Caledonia, French Polynesia, Norfolk Island and New Zealand and with existing systems will provide an alternative trans-Tasman link. (Reported comments from John Hibbard have been changed to more accurately reflect his views)

Pipe Networks (ASX: PWK) is forecasting consolidated revenue for FY2010 of $92m-$96m, with EBITDA of approximately $50m-$51m and NPAT of approximately $20.5m-$21.5m from a combination of its existing business and its submarine cable arm, expected to start generating revenues later this year.