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 At the start of the year, TSA forecast that about two-dozen submarine cable supply contracts totaling 100,000 route-kilometers would be awarded in 2007. By the end of December, 25 contracts totaling approximately 112,000 route-kilometers were awarded.
One new contract was announced in December - the 4,600-route-kilometer Greenland Connect project, awarded to Alcatel-Lucent Submarine Networks. It was widely reported in December that another contract had been awarded for FLAG Telecom's transpacific cable, also to Alcatel-Lucent. However, as neither FLAG Telecom, its parent company Reliance Communications or Alcatel-Lucent have released an official announcement, we are not including it in our totals.
The contracts awarded to date are:
| Project |
Month awarded |
Route length |
Supplier(s) |
| Greenland Connect |
December |
4,600 km |
Alcatel-Lucent Submarine Networks |
| TGN-Intra Asia |
November |
6,000 km (est.) |
Tyco Telecommunications |
| TEAMS |
November |
4,700 km |
Alcatel-Lucent Submarine Networks |
| ACS Alaska-Oregon |
October |
3,200 km (est.) |
Tyco Telecommunications |
| MENA Mediterranean |
October |
3,850 km |
Alcatel-Lucent Submarine Networks |
| Alaska United |
October |
1,220 km |
NEC |
| Paniolo Fiber-Optic Cable (PFOC) |
October |
450 km |
IT |
| Seaton Anderson Lake Project (SALP) |
October |
44 km |
IT |
| Caucasus Online |
September |
1,100 km |
Tyco Telecommunications |
| COMETA |
September |
480 km |
Nexans |
| FLAG NGN 1 |
September |
5,000 km |
Fujitsu |
| FLAG NGN 3 |
September |
5,000 km |
Fujitsu |
| SEACOM |
July |
13,000 km |
Tyco Telecommunications |
| MIC 1 |
July |
70 km |
Global Marine |
| CFX-1 |
May |
2,400 km |
Tyco Telecommunications |
| Newfoundland-Nova Scotia |
May |
800 km |
IT, Nexans |
| Asia-America Gateway (AAG) |
April |
20,000 km |
NEC, Alcatel-Lucent Submarine Networks |
| EASSy |
March |
10,000 km |
Alcatel-Lucent Submarine Networks |
| Sydney-Hawaii |
March |
9,000 km |
Alcatel-Lucent Submarine Networks |
| Matrix |
February |
1,350 km |
Tyco Telecommunications |
| Minerva |
February |
500 km (est.) |
Alcatel-Lucent Submarine Networks |
| La Gomera-El Hierro (Canary Islands) |
January |
145 km |
Tyco Telecommunications |
| SHEFA-2 |
January |
700 km |
NSW, IT, Xtera |
| Trinidad-Curacao Sub Sea Fibre Project |
January |
1,000 km |
Tyco Telecommunications |
| Trans Pacific Express (TPE) |
January |
18,000 km |
Tyco Telecommunications |
| Total |
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112,609 km |
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