When planning a subsea cable installation, there are a number of considerations that will affect both the price and the design of the network. OSI supports the network planning process with:

• Business case analysis to consider traffic intensity and system capacity, reliability and grade of service requirements, operational benefits of a fiber-based subsea cable network balanced against CapEx and OpEx budgets.
• Development plans and partner identification to assess opportunities to share network or maintenance costs with other organizations, which potential partners exist, and which present the best fit for short and long-term network priorities. For the Oil & Gas market, this might also include a Lease block architecture review to leverage cost sharing opportunities, ensure operational efficiencies are optimized, engineer for in-field infrastructure needs and network protection requirements.
• Life-cycle planning to address the beginning- and end-of-life cost modeling, bandwidth demand, network reliability and network maintenance requirements for current needs and for a fully future-proofed digital oilfield solution.