MTN Lands 45,000km Subsea Cable in S. Africa to Boost Africa's Connectivity
MTN South Africa and MTN GlobalConnect, in partnership with a consortium, have landed a 45,000-kilometer subsea cable in South Africa, part of plans to build a subsea network to connect African countries to Europe and the Middle East.Africa's big economies have a fast growing population of internet users, with growth fuelled by rapidly expanding mobile broadband networks and affordable smartphones."Data traffic across African markets is expected to grow between four and five fold over the next 5 years, so we need infrastructure and capacity to meet that level of growth and demand," MTN
Subsea Network Repaired in the North Sea
Faulty elements in the subsea network within the Greater Guillemot Area field were diagnosed and replaced within 24 hours of the start of a recent fault-finding campaign, subsea testing tools manufacturer C-Kore Systems said.The GGA area in the UK North Sea is operated by Dana Petroleum with partner Tailwind.C-Kore’s compact Cable Monitor Units are used on fault-finding operations and installation campaigns to test the health of electrical lines by measuring the insulation resistance and electrical continuity. With their Subsea TDR units, faults can be localized with an accuracy of 10cm in the
WFS Launches Subsea Wireless Edge Network
to process and analyze the raw data at the sensor level, thus reducing information overheads by transmitting only the data needed to downstream solutions in real-time rather than all sensor data collected.In addition, by deploying a number of ExtremeEdge-enabled sensors, WFS has created the first subsea network designed to operate wirelessly. Traditionally, most solutions operate by individual sensor only, and not as a network of sensors that can communicate, process and transmit data between themselves, increasing subsea asset monitoring efficiencies.“To enable exceptionally long battery life
Ichthys Completes Subsea Installation
of the complex network of subsea infrastructure and equipment to safely and efficiently extract gas and condensate from the Ichthys Field for the Ichthys LNG Project. The final laying of 49 kilometres of umbilicals and flying leads yesterday, marked the last placement of an intricate subsea network, spread across a 400 square kilometre area of the Ichthys Field, in the Browse Basin, about 220 kilometres offshore Western Australia. Ichthys Project Managing Director Louis Bon described the safe execution of a number of installation campaigns to complete the subsea infrastructure
MENA Upgrades Subsea Network With Infinera in Middle East
Infinera has announced the successful deployment of the Infinera DTN-X XTC Series across Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Submarine Cable System's subsea network. The Infinera DTN-X XTC Series integrates the subsea network connecting the Mediterranean and Middle East regions with MENA's existing Infinera terrestrial network. With the Infinera DTN-X XTC-10, featuring FlexCoherent technology and Instant Bandwidth, MENA can rapidly deploy increments of 100 gigabits per second (Gb/s) of bandwidth, differentiating services and managing costs as it scales network capacity. MENA, a subsidiary of
Subsea Network Helps Total Save Time at Egina
French oil major Total, operator for the Egina oil field offshore Nigeria, together with its construction and survey partners, has installed a Fusion 6G subsea positioning network to support its development of the $15 billion project. Supplied by Sonardyne International Ltd, UK, the acoustic technology specified for Egina, which is still ongoing, included a field-wide array of Compatt 6 seabed transponders that were deployed and made ready for work eight days ahead schedule. Located 150 kilometers off the coast of Nigera, in water depths of up to 1,750 meters, the Egina field
TE SubCom Introduces Open Cables, Ocean Gateway
a multi-vendor supplier base for transponders. The choice of third party equipment allows the customer to leverage line cards and converged terrestrial network integration. “There are many elements that influence our customer’s choice of line terminating equipment over a subsea network, not least of which is their existing core terrestrial network architecture,” said Mark Enright, managing director, Customer Solutions, TE SubCom. “Current technology improvement cycles for equipment are shorter than manufacturers can synchronize to. With the Open Cables model, SubCom
OceanWorks Completes Mediterranean OCB Protection Project
it has finished the Poseidon Diode Interface (PDI) project for CSnet. The completed PDI design will protect the Offshore Communication Backbone (OCB) – a seafloor network developed for the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Cyprus – from any electrical fault in the Poseidon cable. The subsea network contains as part of its capability, the Tsunami Warning and Early Response system for Cyprus (TWERC). The Poseidon cable will provide direct connection to the OCB and provide power to the Poseidon system. A number of advantages, including higher bandwidth, lower latency communications, increased
August 2024
