ROVworld Subsea Information
Blue Offshore has been awarded a second lease agreement for their subsea cable installation system by Norddeutsche Seekabelwerke GmbH (NSW) for 2013.
August 2011 marks the pioneering mission of SBSS's largest and most advanced trenching ROV (Remotely Operated Vehicle) Sea Lion III. SBSS was contracted to carry out post lay burial work in Hong Kong water for AAG international submarine telecom system shortly after her deliver to SBSS cable ship CS Fu An.
Mexus Submarine Cable Pulling Barge, the 230 foot 4 million pound capacity, Mexus Oceanic Retriever, has completed its first week of cable salvage operations with salvaged cable on the deck of the barge. The retrieval equipment is operating as expected and operations are expected to continue until the winter months arrive.
Xtera Communications, Inc., a leading global provider of optical networking solutions, and Kokusai Cable Ship Co., Ltd., a leading provider of marine operations services for cables, today announced that AT&T contracted the two companies to build the GOKI (Guam, Okinawa, Kyushu, Incheon) submarine cable system.
Nexans, a worldwide leading expert in the cable industry, has been awarded a contract by the project developer Offshore-Windpark RIFFGAT GmbH & Co. KG, which is owned by Enova and EWE ENERGIE, to supply and install the infield submarine power cables and ancillary equipment for the Riffgat offshore wind farm currently under construction 15 km northwest of the German island of Borkum.
Vodafone New Zealand and Pacific Fibre today announced that they have signed a multi-million dollar agreement for the supply of international bandwidth on the new Pacific Fibre cable system.
Telecom Egypt puts first 40G Mediterranean system in service using Alcatel-Lucent's advanced coherent technology
Telecom Egypt, Egypt's primary telecommunications services provider, and Alcatel-Lucent, have announced that the TE-NORTH Cable System, provisioned with 40 Gigabit per second (40G) wavelengths across the Mediterranean, is in service. TE-NORTH is the first Mediterranean cable network to provide commercial service using this newest 40G technology.
NKT Cables has entered into a contract with 50Hertz Offshore GmbH at a value of around 750 mDKK (95 mEUR) for the offshore wind farm Baltic 2. For NKT Cables, Baltic 2 will be another turnkey project which includes armoured high-voltage subsea cables, accessories and installation. The cables will be manufactured at the production facilities in Cologne.
SEACOM and Infinera Corp, a leading US-based digital optical networking equipment supplier, today announced that they had achieved a global first by successfully trialling five 100 Gigabit per second (100 Gb/s) channels of coherent optical transmission over a distance of 1732 kilometres. The 500Gb/s trial was run over and looped back across SEACOM's newly built 930 kilometre Dark Fibre Africa (DFA) fibre route which links the SEACOM Mtunzini cable landing station in KwaZulu Natal to the Teraco datacentre in Johannesburg.
Italy's cable-maker Prysmian SpA said the Dutch-German grid operator TenneT awarded it new orders worth more than EUR200 million for the HelWin2 project.
