Blog
Welcome to Pioneer Consulting’s Blog showcasing insights and developments from within the submarine fiber optic telecommunications industry. All Blogs are written by one our core team of experts.
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December 6, 2024In this blog, Managing Partner discusses the importance of bringing connectivity to the polar regions. -
October 31, 2024Dr Lorraine Gray summarizes the regulatory landscapes in Europe and the USA, focusing on key aspects of the scope of environmental assessment for cables. -
August 29, 2024In this blog, Managing Partner Gavin Tully addresses the importance of quality assurance in the submarine cable industry and details that sometimes you get exactly what you pay for (or do not pay for). -
July 30, 2024In this blog, Bertrand Clesca examines the correlation and causation between the value of the Human Development Index and the consumption of international bandwidth per capita worldwide. -
June 27, 2024In this blog written by Director of Client Solutions Austin Shields, he discusses the need for subsea fiber optic links to support connectivity. -
March 19, 2024Murphy’s Law Struck Again! (And This Time, South Africa Subsea Connectivity to Europe is the Victim)In this blog, Partner Bertrand Clesca stresses the importance of subsea network resiliency. With today’s dependence on digital services, diversity for worldwide connectivity has become a requirement. -
March 14, 2024In this blog, Managing Partner Howard Kidorf writes about spare cable storage when not utilizing storage depots. -
December 18, 2023The past 25 years in the submarine cable industry have been incredible. From the dot-com boom to new technologies such as AI, Pioneer Consulting has evolved to keep pace with the ever-changing demands of the telecom industry. -
March 8, 2023Continuing to highlight the trans-Atlantic route, this blog examines the introduction of new cable system technologies with the resulting evolution of the cross-sectional cable capacity. -
March 1, 2023In this blog we discuss six key technologies that were gradually introduced to increase bandwidth capabilities for cross-sectional submarine cables over transoceanic routes. -
February 7, 2023This post builds upon the previous blog "Evolution of Trans-Atlantic Cable Capacity: Between Hype and Reality," which examines the implications of the submarine cable growth rate. -
January 4, 2023Subsea cable systems have more capacity than ever before, resulting in technical advancements. We review technology innovations and how they resulted in significant evolution in capacity over the trans-Atlantic cable routes. -
May 23, 2022When I think of the protection of key infrastructure, I think of bridges, tunnels, ports, airports, the facilities necessary for military and civil order, and the scattered facilities that supply food and energy in the form of electricity and hydrocarbons. -
March 2, 2022In this post, we examine the main trends in the content delivery chain and how the role of some parties is evolving. -
February 8, 2022In a series of three blogs related to Content Distribution, in this post, we take a look at where the various parties involved in this content delivery chain are physically located and how they interconnect to each other. The role of subsea cable systems in this architecture is also described. -
February 1, 2022This blog is first in a series of 3 blogs by Bertrand Clesca on the content delivery chain. -
January 2, 2022If I had a satellite in low earth orbit for each time I have heard this question, I may have a constellation of birds that rivals the 30,000 planned by Elon Musk’s Starlink. -
December 16, 2021With seemingly insatiable bandwidth needs across the globe, major content providers (Facebook, Google, and, to a lesser extent, Amazon and Microsoft) are more involved than ever in the building of long-haul subsea cable systems.