New Wave Media

TE SubCom and the consortium behind the Asia-Africa-Europe-1 (AAE-1) cable system, announced today that the deployment of a large-scale wavelength equipage to the system is currently underway. The equipage will utilize TE SubCom’s advanced 100 Gbps optical transmission equipment, representing a leap forward in undersea capacity.

 

AAE-1 is a 25,000 km system owned by a consortium of 19 global service providers that will connect Southeast Asia to Europe across Egypt, connecting Hong Kong, Vietnam, Cambodia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Myanmar, India, Pakistan, Oman, UAE, Qatar, Yemen, Djibouti, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Greece, Italy and France. Project implementation is progressing at full speed with the wet system manufacture complete, initial dry plant equipment installation and site acceptance testing complete at over half of the landings, and the commencement of marine installation with four main lay cable ships and numerous support vessels presently working, for a scheduled Ready for Service by end of 2016.

 

“AAE-1 is among the largest, most complex systems ever constructed, and TE SubCom’s portion includes 12 branching units, 16 landings and over 19,000 km of cable,” said Joseph Chan and Ellen Pan, co-chairpersons of the AAE-1 Management Committee. He said AAE-1 is 70 percent complete and he expects the project to be completed as planned.

 

This additional equipage of AAE-1 will utilize TE SubCom’s C100U+ technology, which has the potential of improving the spectral efficiency in the fibers. This is the first capacity upgrade of the system and it is expected to be delivered when the system achieves ready for provisional acceptance (RFPA).