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Routingproblems area regular thing for companies ever expanding
their networks. And the work that some of these companies
undertake is truly amazing, whether it is bringing renewable power
to communities, or communications.
This has been highlighted in the latest issue of wiredInUSA, with
a $1.1 billion wind farm and 90-mile transmission line in eastern
Colorado (page 9), the laying of 3,500 tonnes of cable under the
Northumberland Strait between Prince Edward Island and New
Brunswick (page 10), and the addition of fiber routes across the
Rockies, taking in Salt Lake City, Reno, Las Vegas and Silicon Valley
(page 12).
These problems can also provide environmental challenges. A
quick glance to page 25 will show how engineers from the UK’s
Electricity North West have begun upgrading power cable under
England’s deepest lake, Wastwater in picturesque Cumbria. 560m
of power cable will be pulled alongside the lakeside by engineers
as part of the second phase of the $700,000 project.
And stretching further afield to New Zealand, the cable-laying ship
Ile de Re
has docked in Auckland prior to laying a 2,300km cable
from Ngarunui Beach in Ragland to Narrabeen Beach in Australia
(page 34).
David Bell
Editor
#65
EDITOR
wiredInUSA - November 2016
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