788 results found for 'undersea cables'

788 results found for 'undersea cables'
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  • Alcatel-Lucent Starts Sea-Me-We 5 Subsea Cable Construction

    24 September 2014
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    The South East Asia-Middle East-Western Europe 5 (SEA-ME-WE 5) consortium has announced that the contract for the deployment of the SEA-ME-WE 5 undersea cable system spanning 20,000 km from Singapore to France has come into force. The new 100G SEA-ME-WE 5 will deliver ultra-broadband capacity and faster access to consumers and businesses. Its ultimate design […]

  • EllaLink Set for 2020 Launch

    14 August 2018
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Operations & Maintenance, Project & Tenders, Research & Development

    BELLA (Building Europe Link to Latin America) consortium, whose leading investor is the European Commission, has signed a contract agreement with EllaLink, a private consortium, to launch the deployment of an underwater fibre optic cable connecting Europe and Latin America. The cable should provide reliable high capacity connectivity that will boost business, scientific and cultural […]

  • Surveys to start in July at UK’s $3 billion subsea electricity superhighway

    24 June 2025
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Infrastructure, Outlook & Strategy, Project & Tenders, Regulation & Policy, Transition, Vision

    Geotechnical surveys are scheduled to begin in July at the Eastern Green Link 1 (EGL1) subsea electricity superhighway that will link the south-east of Scotland with the north-east of England. The 2 GW EGL1 HVDC multi-directional cable is being developed by National Grid Electricity Transmission (NGET) and SP Transmission, part of SP Energy Networks, between […]

  • Alcatel-Lucent, Telefónica Enhance PENCAN Subsea Link

    24 August 2015
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Operations & Maintenance

    Alcatel-Lucent Submarine Networks, the cables subsidiary of Alcatel-Lucent, and Telefónica are upgrading the PENCAN-7 and PENCAN-8 undersea cable systems linking landing points on the Spanish mainland to Gran Canaria and Tenerife in the Canary Islands. The 100 Gbit/s upgrade will offer a more than tenfold increase of the current system capacity, allowing to meet growing […]

  • Investigation into damage of Finland-Estonia link finds dragging marks on seabed

    31 December 2024
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Infrastructure, Project & Tenders, Regulation & Policy, Safety, Vessels

    The investigation into the damage that occurred on Christmas day on the Eastlink 2 undersea cable between Finland and Estonia in the Baltic Sea has found a dragging track on the seabed that is dozens of kilometers long, the Finnish police reported. To remind, Finland’s transmission system operator (TSO) Fingrid reported to the authorities on […]

  • TE SubCom’s Cable Ship Saves 14 Lives Off India

    27 September 2016
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    The crew deployed on the TE SubCom’s cable ship Dependable has rescued 14 fisherman in the Arabian Sea off the Maharashtra Coast near Mumbai, India. Namely, on September 17, Indian fishing boat FV Datta Sai sank with 16 persons aboard, no personal floatation devices and no VHF radio. The C.S. Dependable, in transit between work sites, came […]

  • UK: East Anglia ONE Proposes Offshore Wind Farm Application

    13 July 2012
    Authorities & Government

    East Anglia ONE Limited, proposes to apply to the Planning Inspectorate (PINS) under section 37 of The Planning Act 2008 for the development consent order. The Application relates to the construction and operation of Phase 1 of an offshore wind generating station within the East Anglia zone of the North Sea. The Project is 43.4km from the coast of […]

  • Alcatel-Lucent Upgrades Apollo Subsea Cable System

    12 May 2014
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Operations & Maintenance

    Alcatel-Lucent has completed an upgrade of the Apollo undersea cable system which links the UK and France to the United States. This multiple 100 gigabit per second (Gbit/s) upgrade enhances the system’s capacity in support of the continued global explosion of data traffic and increased demand for capacity-hungry applications such as cloud computing and on-demand […]

  • Walney Extension OWF Subject to Environmental Assessment Procedure

    23 January 2014
    Business & Finance

    Meath County Council has been advised by the Minister for Environment Community and Local Government of information received from the Secretary of State for the Environment in the United Kingdom in respect of proposed Walney Extension Offshore Wind Farm that may be likely to have a significant effect on the environment in Ireland. The proposed […]

  • €307 million set aside for Italy-Tunisia subsea interconnection

    29 November 2023
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Environment, Infrastructure, Innovation, Project & Tenders, Regulation & Policy

    The signing of the grant agreement for the Italy-Tunisia electricity interconnection has been welcomed by Terna and Steg.

  • T1200 Completes North Sea Project

    2 November 2012
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Technology

    Helix Energy Solutions Group’s new T1200 burial and trenching unit is quickly establishing a positive track record following the completion of an oil and gas project in the North Sea. The T1200 features a 1,200hp jet trenching spread, capable of burying product in water depths to 3,000m (10,000ft). T1200 was deployed to bury a 14km […]

  • Helix ESG’s T1200 Trencher Completes First North Sea Oil and Gas Project

    2 November 2012
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Operations & Maintenance

    Helix Energy Solutions Group’s new T1200 burial and trenching unit is quickly establishing a positive track record following the completion of an oil and gas project in the North Sea. The T1200 features a 1,200hp jet trenching spread, capable of burying product in water depths to 3,000m (10,000ft). T1200 was deployed to bury a 14km […]

  • Cable Installed at Experimental Offshore Floating Wind Farm Project

    11 November 2013
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Operations & Maintenance

    A consortium comprising of Marubeni (project integrator), the University of Tokyo (technical advisor), Mitsubishi, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Japan Marine United, Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding, Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation, Hitachi, Furukawa Electric, Shimizu, and Mizuho Information & Research have been participating in an experimental offshore floating wind farm project sponsored by the Ministry of […]

  • BPS installs bioWAVE off Australia

    16 December 2015
    Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development, Technology

    BioPower Systems (BPS) has deployed its 250 kW bioWAVE pilot demonstration wave energy unit off Port Fairy, Victoria, Australia. The bioWAVE was deployed by a crane-equipped ship, which transported the device to the site and lowered it into the water. The structure was angled slightly, piercing the surface like a diver to avoid any impacts […]

  • Alcatel-Lucent, GoTo Networks to Build Australia West Express

    12 May 2015
    Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development

    Alcatel-Lucent Submarine Networks and GoTo Networks have signed a turnkey contract to build Australia West Express, the first direct undersea cable between Australia, the Middle East and Africa. The AWE system will span the Indian Ocean, connecting Perth in Australia and Djibouti in north-east Africa, with onward connectivity to provide an entirely new lower latency […]

  • Alcatel-Lucent Breaks World Record for Undersea Data Transmission

    17 July 2013
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    Alcatel-Lucent has broken a new record for the amount of data that can be transmitted over transoceanic distances on a single optical fiber. In a test carried out at Alcatel-Lucent’s Innovation City campus in Villarceaux near Paris, researchers from Bell Labs successfully sent data at speeds of 31 Terabits-per-second (Tbps) over 7200km – a capacity […]

  • MMA Offshore secures work on Australia’s new interconnector

    2 December 2021
    Business Developments & Projects, Project & Tenders

    Australia-based MMA Offshore has secured a contract to conduct underwater geotechnical surveys to refine the cable route for the proposed interconnection project Marinus Link.

  • Japan: Mitsubishi Electric Signs Contract to Upgrade Transpacific Cable Network

    10 November 2011
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    Mitsubishi Electric Corporation announced that it has signed a contract to upgrade a transpacific submarine cable network by incorporating 40 Gbps dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) and increasing transmission design capacity up to fivefold to 5.2 Tbps. The upgrade to the Asia America Gateway (AAG) Cable Network, which will involve installing submarine line terminal equipment […]

  • Crown Estate Scotland Makes Offshore Data Available to Public

    28 August 2017
    Equipment

    Crown Estate Scotland now has spatial data relating to the organisation’s offshore assets freely available on its website for the first time. The data covers infrastructure projects and undersea cabling and can be used by a range of organisations from oil and gas companies to consultancies and educational institutes. The data reveals the geographic extent […]

  • OGS to Manage SeaMeWe-5 Qatar and Oman Landing Stations

    23 March 2015
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Operations & Maintenance, Project & Tenders

    Ooredoo Global Services (OGS), the wholesale arm of telecommunications provider Ooredoo, has announced three major agreements that will extend its range of services and international support. Yousuf Abdulla Al-Kubaisi, CEO, OGS, said: “Ooredoo Global Services continues to forge ahead with its strategy to become the premium partner for wholesale carriers looking for connectivity in the Middle East, […]

  • New Survey for FAB Link Interconnector Underway

    20 January 2016
    Equipment, Operations & Maintenance

    FAB Link interconnector, between France, the Channel Islands and the UK has come a step closer with new surveys taking place off East Devon and Alderney. The team behind the FAB Link is planning to lay two pairs of electricity cables between the Cherbourg peninsula in Normandy in northern France, and Devon. The interconnector will be able […]

  • Vodafone New Zealand Signs Long Term Contract with Pacific Fibre for Subsea Cable System

    22 August 2011
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Project & Tenders

      Vodafone New Zealand​ and Pacific Fibre announced that they have signed a multi-million dollar agreement for the supply of international bandwidth on the new Pacific Fibre cable system. Under the 10-year deal, Vodafone will become Pacific Fibre’s biggest New Zealand customer. Vodafone CEO Russell Stanners says Pacific Fibre is bringing much needed competition to […]

  • EU funds Mediterranean forecasting systems development

    24 May 2017

    The European Union has awarded the international Odyssea consortium €8.4 million ($9.4 million) to develop an interoperable and cost-effective platform that fully integrates networks of observation and forecasting systems across the Mediterranean basin. Odyssea, comprised of 28 partner organizations from 14 EU and non-EU countries across the Mediterranean, includes research institutes, universities, policy makers, NGOs, […]

  • TGA Subsea Cable Construction Underway

    17 March 2016
    Equipment, Operations & Maintenance

    Cable laying operations of the first section of the Tasman Global Access (TGA) undersea cable are set to begin this month in Raglan. Telecommunications companies Spark, Vodafone and Telstra are investing approximately USD $70 million to build the TGA cable. The consortium of Spark, Vodafone and Telstra have contracted Alcatel-Lucent Submarine Networks (ASN), now part of […]

  • TE SubCom to Supply Trans-Pacific Subsea Cable System for Pacific Fibre (USA)

    18 July 2011
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Project & Tenders

    Pacific Fibre and TE SubCom, a TE Connectivity Ltd. company and an industry pioneer in undersea communications technology, today announced the signing of a supply contract for the Pacific Fibre undersea cable system. The exceptionally long system will stretch 12,750km and boast a significantly higher cross sectional capacity than anyother trans-Pacific cable. Intended to meet […]