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Russian Far East cable making progress

The system capacity is 400Gbps and will be upgradeable to 8Tbps. Cable laying is being carried out by Huawei Marine, a joint-venture subsidiary of Huawei, using a specialist cable installation vessel, Cable Innovator . The vessel is over 145m in length and has a total cable store of 8,500 tonnes. mass communication, commented that the new system is: “Not a mere construction, but a large-scale infrastructural project which will provide the citizens with a set of services necessary in their everyday life. Thanks to high rate Internet access the residents of Kamchatka, Sakhalin and Magadan will access the state electronic services, remote education and telemedicine.” Nikolay Nikiforov, Russia’s minister of telecommunication and

Huawei Rostelecom have begun work on a submarine fiber optical telecommunication line between Kamchatka and Sakhalin in Russia. Construction of the 900km cable constitutes the second phase of the Far East cable system to connect the regions of Kamchatka, Sakhalin, and Magadan, and will be commissioned in early 2017. Phase One, connecting Sakhalin to Magadan, was completed in 2015, as was the land-based telecommunication network on the Kamchatka peninsula. The terrestrial network connects to the submarine cable in the area of Ust-Bolsheretzk, from where the submarine cable is buried beneath the seabed to cross the Okhotsk sea, connecting Ust-Bolsheretzk in Kamchatka with Okha in Sakhalin. Total length of the project is over 1,855km, in addition to the land-based fiber network. Marine and

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