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wiredInUSA - September 2015
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EUROPE NEWS
Alcatel-Lucent Submarine Networks (ASN)
and Quintillion Subsea Holdings have
entered into a turnkey contract for the
design and construction of a submarine
cable system from Prudhoe Bay to Nome,
in Alaska. ASN has already begun marine
route survey and installation activities.
With a capacity of at least 10Tbit/s per fiber
pair, the system will deliver high-speed
broadband access to areas of Alaska
where bandwidth is limited.
The system will consist of three fiber pairs
capable of carrying 100 wavelengths,
each of which can support 100Gbit/s of
data capacity. Phase 1 will be a 1,850km
segment linking the Alaskan communities
of Nome, Kotzebue, Wainwright, Point
Hope, Barrow and Prudhoe Bay and will
provide for future extensions to Asia and
Europe. Scheduled for completion by
the end of 2016, Phase 1 will incorporate
advanced routing and burial techniques
to protect the cable and enhance the
integrity of the system.
Philippe
Dumont,
president
of
Alcatel-Lucent Submarine Networks,
said: “The unique weather conditions
of the Arctic make this project very
challenging.”
ASN will be responsible for the project
on a turnkey basis, from system design to
installation and commissioning. The system
will usearmoredOALC-4 cable, advanced
coherent multi-terabit technology with
optical add-dropmultiplexing capabilities,
and a configuration that will facilitate
future ultra-low latency expansion to
Japan and western Europe.
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