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51 M a y Voice 2010 of the ISSN 1948-3031 Industry Subsea Capacity ISSN 1948-3031 Submarine Telecoms Forum is published bimonthly by WFN Strategies. The publication may not be reproduced or st transmitted in any form, in whole or in part, elcome to the 51 issue of Submarine other, and willing to listen just a little more without the permission of the publishers. WTelecoms Forum magazine, our to another point of view. Submarine Telecoms Forum is an independent com mercial publication, Subsea Capacity edition. Here are some serving as a freely accessible forum for thoughts at 32,000 feet, somewhere over New fascinating technologies aside, it is professionals in industries connected with submarine optical fibre technologies and the Pacific... altogether quite something to be a part of techniques. something a century and a half old. It is Liability: while every care is taken in preparation of this publication, the The Bose headphones with some lovely also quite comforting. publishers cannot be held responsible for the accuracy of the information herein, or new Frampton playing on the iPod allow any errors which may occur in advertising or editorial content, or any consequence my mind to wonder. The last four days Till we meet again. arising from any errors or omissions. at SubOptic in Yokohama have been an The publisher cannot be held responsible for any views expressed by contributors, incredible whirlwind of nonstop activity: and the editor reserves the right to edit any selling, cajoling, learning and seeing faces advertising or editorial material submitted for publication. of old friends from a few past lives. And Contributions are welcomed. Please yes, new acquaintances and friends have forward to the Managing Editor: been made as well. PUBLISHER Wayne Nielsen We come together as an industry just once Tel: +[1] 703 444 2527 every few years, but it was the host's words Email: [email protected] at TE SubCom's reception which best EDITOR express why I have worked and stayed the Kevin G. Summers last 25 years in this industry: how simply Tel: +[1] 703 468 0554 we help people converse; how we make Email: [email protected] this world a little smaller. Maybe that makes us a little more empathetic to each 2 Copyright © 2010 WFN Strategies Subsea In This Issue Capacity Exordium 2 The 40G Undersea Market Heats 27 Letters to the Editor 45 Wayne Nielsen Up Harald Bock & Joe Capasso Conferences 47 News Now 4 Back Reflection 33 Stewart Ash & Kaori Shikinaka Letter to a Friend 48 Upgrading to 40G 7 Jean Devos Jas Dhooper & Wang Jingwei Subsea Capacity Issues 34 Between China and U.S. Advertiser Index 49 The Communication Revolution 14 Xu Yewei & Zhu Hongda and Connectivity To Ireland Coda Derek Cassidy Feed The Need: The Explosive 38 50 Demand For Undersea Kevin G. Summers Linking Africa To The World: 21 Technologies! Opportunities Provided By ICT Submarine Networks World Uptake Essential To Mobilising The Youth Of Africa Lowest Latency Connectivity To 41 Bran Herlihy South America Takes Center Stage Erick Contag 3 News Now 150 year old photos on BT’s new online CanaLink and Alcatel-Lucent sign multi- EASSy cable lands in Tanzania gallery million Euro contract to deploy 2000 km submarine cable network linking Canary EASSy construction completed ahead of Alcatel Lucent to compensate Telecom NZ Islands to Spain?s main schedule over 3G network failings Ciena Highlights Market-Leading 40G Gateway Communications keeps East Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs showcases and 100G Coherent Technology for Next- and Southern Africa connected during next-generation optical transmission Generation Submarine Networks at SEACOM outage technologies at annual Optical Fiber SubOptic 2010 Conference Global Crossing deploys new capacity Confidex Ironside Micro And Confidex using Xtera NXT next generation American Samoa Hawaii Cable owners Rpc Tag Family Establish Confidex As Submarine Line Terminal Equipment Apply for Transfer Control The Tag Provider For Returnable Transit Items Gulf Bridge International, Omantel sign Apollo and Alcatel-Lucent break agreement to land GBI’s sub-sea cable submarine networking speed barrier Corning Introduces Ultra-Low-Loss, system in Oman Large-Effective-Area Submarine Optical AQEST, the expert company in submarine Fiber Main One, Seacom And Efive Telecoms cable business, is born! 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New S L TE Upgrade Beyond the Narrower channel spacing, more wavelengths Design Capacity SLM 120% Trib CPL CTB 100% Design Capacity WDM Trib PFE 80% C apacity Existing SLTE G rowth 60% Trib Trib: Tributary CPL: coupler 40% WDM More Channels or Initial Capacity Build a New System? CTB: Cable Terminal Box Higher Bit Rate Trib S LM: S ubmarine Line Monitor 0 5~8 10~18 Service Life ystem owners have invested heavily technology and wavelength rate, the For different systems, operators can choose in the construction of submarine maximum capacity for an existing adding or replacing advanced terminal Scable systems, they want a longer submarine system can be promoted to a equipments to increase the bandwidth. service life along with good expendability higher level than its original design. The There are two options for adding terminal on the capacity - always being partially lit number of wavelengths can be upgrade up equipments - lighting dark fibers; and when the cable commences operation. But, to 192 wavelengths per fiber pair (25GHz overlay wavelength. These two solutions with the explosive escalation of the internet channel spacing) and the wavelength can add new wavelengths to the system as application, mobile communications and rate can be greatly increased to 10Gbps, well as keep the old terminal equipments. other related network applications, the even 40Gbps. The 40Gbps technology has Replacing terminal equipment enables system capacity will be upgraded until become more mainstream as technology full utilization of the advantages of new reaching its maximal design capacity. progresses. And the 100Gbps is destined equipments and realize the maximum Then, you may ask, is that the end of the to emerge as the future trend in industry. bandwidth, but there is also a waste of old system’s maximum capacity? The answer All of these facts indicate that existing equipment. is absolutely not. submarine cable systems have great potential in possible capacity expansion For many operators, these methods With the development of transmission with the evolution of transmission provide an effective way to boost traffic 8 technologies such as the DWDM technology. volume by introducing new services. station equipment, before looking towards marine activities and potentially replacing the submarine cable system! In the current climate these methods are proving to be very popular and cost effective, providing an increase in system life and enhancing both revenue generating opportunities and network headroom. Other options such as network restoration capability can also be serviced by these upgrade options. Whilst the introduction of new DWDM technology may involve the implementation This is also an important way to increase that pain, and if carefully managed, have of separate NMS platforms adding revenue, but there are also various factors proved to have virtually no impact to complexity and cost, it does enable the at an operational level that need to be existing services. Where there is a potential service provider to leverage the existing considered. traffic hit, then either restoration paths asset base and gain an extension to its life can be used to divert capacity, or planned span. However a single platform solution Customers with mission critical services works can be set up at a point in time that takes away such complexities and enables don’t want to have several hours of has minimal customer disruption. the operator benefits such as end to end downtime, which equates to a loss of management visibility, point and click revenue, during such upgrades. Therefore, From the operator’s perspective, the functionality and performance management. network planning and design for future ability to add incremental channel cards With either option the importance of demand is a key consideration.