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In This Issue 73 NOV Voice 2013 of the ISSN 1948-3031 Industry System Upgrades Edition In This Issue: • The Road to Upgrades • Upgrading Cables Systems: • An Opportunity to Turn Point-to-Point Links into More Global Networks • Challenges & Successes: Upgrading Trans-Pacific Cables with 100 Gb/s WEBSITE TRAFFIC - UNIQUE VISITS 54,367 53,652 9-13 52,693 4-13 55,213 1-13 10-13 51,259 53,206 11-12 5-13 YEAR-TO-DATE HITS: 50,940 6-13 10,167,063 48,474 46,785 46,379 47,379 7-13 47,575 12-12 2-13 3-13 8-13 DOWNLOADS TO DATE 95,099 Issue #70 - Released 5-13 483,319 477,095 71,651 255,023 Issue #71 - Released 7-13 66,870 Issue #72 - Released 9-13 Issue #6 - Released 5-13 Issue #7 - Released 8-13 Issue #8 - Released 11-13 ISSN No. 1948-3031 PUBLISHER: Wayne Nielsen A dozen (common abbreviated doz or dz) is a times. Year to date, STF’s website has MANAGING EDITOR: Kevin G. Summers grouping of twelve. The dozen may be one of the experienced 10.1M hits. earliest primitive groupings, perhaps because CONTRIBUTING WRITERS: Colin Anderson, there are approximately a dozen cycles of the In 2014, we will add additional enhancements Stewart Ash, Anup Changaroth, Bertrand moon or months in a cycle of the sun or year. to the SubTel Forum brand including new live Clesca, Olivier Courtois, Jas Dhooper, Dr. Herve Twelve is convenient because its multiples and event video-streaming, which we believe will Fevrier, Peter Liu (Liu Bo), Clive McNamara, divisors are convenient: 12 = 2 × 2 × 3, 3 × 4 = further enhance your utility and enjoyment. Stephen Nielsen, Elaine Stafford, Paul Treglia 12, 2 × 6 = 12, 60 = 12 × 5, 360 = 12 × 30. The As always, such services will be provided at no use of twelve as a base number, known as the cost, and we will do so with two key founding Submarine Telecoms Forum magazine is duodecimal system (also as dozenal), probably principles always in mind, which annually I published bimonthly by Submarine Telecoms originated in Mesopotamia. (Wikipedia) reaffirm to you, our readers: Forum, Inc., and is an independent commercial publication, serving as a freely accessible To me, a dozen can be a pretty big number. »» That we will provide a wide range of ideas and issues; forum for professionals in industries connected th with submarine optical fiber technologies and This November issue marks our 12 Submarine Telecoms »» That we will seek to incite, entertain and techniques. Submarine Telecoms Forum may anniversary of publishing Forum Magazine. We have appreciated provoke in a positive manner. not be reproduced or transmitted in any form, literally hundreds of articles from as many in whole or in part, without the permission of international authors from our industry on So here’s to you, our readers and supporters. the publishers. significant far-reaching topics. Some have Thank you as always for honoring us with merely informed; others have incited reaction; your interest. Liability: while every care is taken in all have enhanced the discussion within preparation of this publication, the publishers our community. Through good times and And on to next year when we can celebrate a cannot be held responsible for the accuracy of terrible times, we have attempted to keep the baker’s dozen. the information herein, or any errors which vantage clear and concise. Hopefully, we have may occur in advertising or editorial content, succeeded more times than not. or any consequence arising from any errors or omissions, and the editor reserves the right When Ted and I established our little magazine to edit any advertising or editorial material in 2001, our hope was to get enough interest to submitted for publication. keep it going for a while. With his premature departure and the eventual addition of Kevin, Contributions are welcomed. Please forward to Kristian and a boatload of others years later, the Managing Editor at [email protected]. we took the original idea and expanded it in a number of different and complimentary ways. Submarine Telecoms Forum, Inc. 21495 Ridgetop Circle, Suite 201 In this our 12th year, an average of 50K Sterling, Virginia 20166, USA unique monthly visitors have downloaded subtelforum.com the magazine more than 500K times, and 3 Copyright © 2013 Submarine Telecoms Forum, Inc. downloaded the Almanac more than 1.8M In This Issue... Exordium 3 The Boracay and Palawan 25 Back Reflection 64 Wayne Nielsen Submarine Cable System: Stewart Ash Extending the Super Highway News Now 5 in the Philippines Conferences 77 Peter Liu (Liu Bo) & Jas Dhooper Exploring The Need For 8 Advertiser Index 78 System Upgrades Challenges & Successes 34 Stephen Nielsen Upgrading Trans-Pacific Coda 79 Cables with 100 Gb/s Kevin G. Summers The Road to Upgrades 12 Colin Anderson & Anup Olivier Courtois Changaroth Upgrading Cables Systems: 18 PTC Submarine Cable 42 An Opportunity to turn Point- Workshop to-Point Links into More Elaine Stafford Global Networks Bertrand Clesca & Dr. Herve Next Generation in Power 56 Fevrier Feed Equipment (PFE) Paul Treglia & Clive McNamara 4 News Now Alcatel-Lucent to Eliminate 10,000 Cyprus: The Home of British/ Internet Working Again After Cut Positions as Losses Mount American Internet Surveillance in In Suriname Submarine Cable the Middle East Angola Cables Capitalises On LS Cable & System To Undergo Location To Link Brazil And Asia District Court Affirms Presidential Spin-Off Discretion In CFIUS Process APTelecom Brings Together MainOne Begins Work On West Engaging Content, Interactive Endesa Says Submarine Cable Africa Manufacturing Plant Forums And Thought Leaders Solution Not On The Table For Tipped For Marsden From Subsea Industry To Kick-Off Hidroays First Cross-Strait ‘State Of Subsea’ Event Series Submarine Cable To Start Marco Polo New World Works Commercial Operations with New Parent Perseus to Arctic Fibre Completes Canadian Enhance Electronic Trading Licence Application Gateway Cable Repair Could Platform Affect Internet Speed Are The Brits Tapping Undersea Now Available: Submarine Cable Cables Off Cyprus? German Environment Ministers Almanac Issue 8 Visit Nkt Cables Global Submarine Optical Fiber Cables Industry Centurylink Traces San Juan Pacnet First to Provide 100G Wave Islands Outage To Severed Services Between Asia-Pacific and Submarine Cable iiNet Acquires Added Hawaiki the United States Submarine Cable System Capacity News Now PCCW Global Provides First SubTel Forum Expands STF Today Uninett Contracts With Global Direct Submarine Cable Access To With Live Streaming Marine Systems For Arctic Circle The Democratic Republic Of The Subsea Cable System Installation Congo Via The West Africa Cable System Sunesys to Provide Fiber Backhaul Infrastructure to Voyager Chooses Hawaiki For Seaborn Networks For Brazil-US Trans-Pacific Cable Reliance Jio Gets A Telecom Submarine Cable Project Service Licence In Singapore WIOCC & Dalkom Somalia To Tata Communications Hits 52- Deliver First International Fibre- Seaborn Networks Receives Week High After Turnaround Optic Connectivity Direct To Coface Guarantee For Brazil-US Results Mogadishu Cable Project Telecom NZ Data Use Up And The Seacom Completes African Ring Case For Trans-Tasman Cable SubOptic 2013 Archive Now TIM Brasil and Xtera Deploy the Available Online! First 100G Optical Network over 2,400 km in the Amazon Region SubPartners Tackles Indonesian Permits For APX-West Cable Undersea `Highway’ To Speed Up Regional Links The Undersea Cable Report 2013 Intelligent intelligence - go beyond the numbers! From Terabit Consulting The most diligent quan- The Undersea Cable titative and qualitative Report capitalizes on analysis of the undersea Terabit Consulting’s cable market - 1,600 global on-site experience pages of data, intel- working with carriers, ligence, and forecasts cable operators, that can be found no- financiers, and where else. governments in over 70 Terabit Consulting ana- countries on dozens of lysts led by Director of leading projects (e.g. International Research AJC, BRICS, EASSy, Michael Ruddy tell you Hibernia, SEAS, TBI) - what’s real and what’s a world of experience, not, where we’ve been at your fingertips in a and where we’re headed. single resource! YOUR KEY TO UNDERSTANDING AND HARNESSING THE $20 BILLION UNDERSEA MARKET OPPORTUNITY The Undersea Cable Report 2013 is your single source of information for top-level decision- making - with the most detailed profiles, data, market analysis, and forecasts available. • 680+ detailed undersea cable profiles • The upgrade market • valuable intelligence • Capacity demand, capacity supply, and • Global, region-by-region, and route-by-route • innovative modeling capacity pricing analysis • thoughtful insight • Ownership, system supply, financing, and • Reliable, detailed forecasts • global perspective project costs • accurate, reliable data • respected expertise For more information visit www.terabitconsulting.com or email us at [email protected] or call +1 617 444 8605 Exploring The Need For System Upgrades Stephen Nielsen arice ltd., a system owner based out of Iceland, recently experienced Number of Systems Upgraded Per Year a problem that is common in the F 16 submarine telecoms industry: ever increasing demand. As technology has 14 improved there has been an exponential 12 increase in demand for bandwidth. 10 For companies like Farice, this meant 8 an effort to find the best and most cost effective way to increase their systems’ 6 capacity. 4 2 “We needed to upgrade our capacity 0 because there has been quite a lot of increase lately in bandwidth demand 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 to Iceland…” explained Orn Jonsson, Chief Technology Officer of Farice. “Of course, we both looked into the original ltd. upgraded both of their systems: still be done. “It looks like we’ll be able supplier of the system, what they could FARICE and DANICE. squeeze even more into the cables than do, and at the same time we checked on originally expected.” According to Jonsson, the use of a third pricing from the other vendors..
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