Subsea Cable

Inmarsat has signed a service and installation agreement with Radio Holland to support strong customer demand for rapid migration from Ku-based XpressLink to Fleet Xpress services. Radio Holland is a specialist in installing and maintaining maritime communications, navigation and automation systems along the global shipping routes.

Coriant announced that PT Telekomunikasi Indonesia, Tbk (Telkom) has deployed Coriant’s coherent optical transport and universal switching technology as part of a nationwide upgrade to its fiber-based backbone network.

H.I.G. Capital, a leading global private equity investment firm with over €20 billion of equity capital under management, announced that it has acquired substantially all the assets of Xtera Communications, Inc., a provider of innovative and bespoke subsea fiber optic solutions. H.I.G. previously provided debtor-in-possession financing to the Xtera debtors in connection with the chapter 11 case.

SpeedCast International is the first Inmarsat partner to integrate the software element of the Fleet Xpress Network Service Device (SoftNSD) into its Fleet Xpress offering.

Prysmian, world leader in the energy and telecom cable industry, has been awarded a contract worth more than € 300 million with Réseau de Transport d'Électricité (RTE) to develop submarine cable links to connect three planned offshore wind farms to the mainland power grid in France.

Tampnet has announced that they have installed the first ever operational offshore 4G/LTE base station in Gulf of Mexico (GoM).

Marlink has signed an agreement to enter into a joint venture with the satellite connectivity business of Greece and Cyprus based TNL Group, enabling it to launch a brand new maritime satellite communications expert, Marlink CG.

Submarine cable system owners must face the realities of cable maintenance but are sometimes unprepared.

Caley Ocean Systems, part of the Seanamic Group, has developed a high speed linear cable engine (LCE) for telecom cable laying. Operating at speeds up to 10 knots, the fully containerized Caley LCE provides complete control of deployment of telecom cable and repeaters.

In the last few months, the submarine cable industry’s #1 cable installation software, MakaiLay, has been commissioned on four cable laying vessels around the world. KT Submarine (KTS, Korea) recently completed a challenging installation with one of their cable laying vessels, Segero.

Statu Shipping has chosen Ozsay Satellite Communications to migrate its 11-strong bulk container vessel fleet to Marlink’s VSAT-based satellite communication services.

Ireland-France Subsea Cable Limited (IFSC) announced a partnership with Tiger Infrastructure Partners to finance and construct IFC-1, a submarine fiber-optic cable system that will be the first and only direct subsea cable between Ireland and France.