Subsea Cable

The Angola Cable’s South Atlantic Cable System (SACS) was successfully completed with the 21 February 2018 cable landing in Fortaleza, Brazil, after traversing 6,200 kilometers across the Atlantic Ocean from Sangano, Angola. Angola Cables reports that SACS, once operational in the third quarter of 2018, will provide a communication capacity of at least 40 Tb/s—opening up the first direct link between Latin America and Africa in the southern hemisphere.

A best-in-class cable deployment control software MakaiLay was commissioned on the cable laying vessel Giulio Verne in November 2017 by the Prysmian Group, the world leader in the energy and telecom cables and systems industry.

The First Subsea Cable Link Between the Americas and Africa Makes Landfall

A joint industry project (JIP), led by Wood, has developed a new set of industry guidelines related to submarine cables behavior on the marine environment and rocky seabed.

Inmarsat and Intellian have signed an outline agreement that will support major enhancements to Inmarsat’s FleetBroadband service for the next decade and beyond.

Quortus has announced a collaboration with e-BO Enterprises, a Belgian provider of smart content distribution platforms, network operation services, secure cloud computing solutions and network infrastructure, to enable LTE voice and data solutions for offshore wind farms.

Iridium Communications Inc. (NASDAQ:IRDM) announces that Marlink, Speedcast, Applied Satellite Technologies Ltd (AST) and Satcom Global are the initial global maritime launch partners for Iridium Certus. The first regional maritime launch partner, Arion, will focus on delivering Iridium Certus to the Asian market.

KVH Industries, Inc., announced that global ship manager E.R. Schiffahrt has chosen KVH’s new advanced TracPhone® V7-HTS antenna equipment and the AgilePlans™ subscription-based Connectivity as a Service (CaaS) program to bring fast, global connectivity to its container and dry bulk vessels. Installations for the first 11 vessels have begun, with plans for a total of up to 60 vessels throughout 2018.

Pioneering underwater wireless networking and communications systems developer W•SENSE Ltd has joined the National Oceanography Centre’s (NOC) Marine Robotics Innovation Centre as a Strategic Partner.

Samoa Submarine Cable Company (SSCC) and TE SubCom, a TE Connectivity Ltd. company and an industry pioneer in undersea communications technology, have announced that TE SubCom will construct a new submarine cable depot in the Port of Apia, Samoa to service and maintain more than 20 cable systems in the South Pacific region.

Radio Holland Netherlands has won a tender to supply Navigation/Communications packages for six newbuild vessels of Dutch shipping company Wijnne Barends (Delfzijl, The Netherlands). Wijnne Barends was established in 1855 and has a longstanding relationship with Radio Holland spanning around 50 years. The company currently has more than 30 vessels in its fleet.

Prysmian Group, a world leader in the energy and telecom cable systems industry, has been awarded a new contract by Cobra Wind International Ltd to provide the cable system to connect the Kincardine Floating Offshore Wind Farm to mainland UK.