Subsea Cable

NSW, a subsidiary of General Cable which recently became part of Prysmian Group, has been awarded a contract by Northwester NV for the development of a submarine inter-array power cable system for the Northwester 2 offshore wind farm, located in the Belgian North Sea, approximately 50 km north-west of Oostende.

TE SubCom, a TE Connectivity Ltd. company and an industry pioneer in undersea communications technology, has announced that Google has selected the company as the supplier of its Dunant submarine cable system. The four-fiber pair cable system will span over 6,400km and will connect the East Coast of the United States to Europe. The cable will add dedicated capacity to Google’s global network and will enable interconnection to other subsea infrastructure in the region.

Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL), a Government of India Enterprise, and NEC Technologies India Pvt. Ltd. (NECTI) announces that a purchase order has been placed by BSNL for NECTI to design, engineer, supply, install, test and implement an optical submarine cable system connecting Chennai and the Andaman & Nicobar Islands (A&N Islands). NEC Corporation the parent company of NECTI, will manufacture the optical submarine cable and provide technical assistance during the turnkey implementation.

The Bay to Bay Express Cable System (BtoBE) consortium, composed of China Mobile International, Facebook and Amazon Web Services, signed an agreement with NEC Corporation to build a high-performance submarine cable connecting Singapore, Hong Kong and the United States.

Radio Holland Netherlands has received an order for a full Nav/Com package for six vessels being built at Royal Bodewes in Hoogezand, highlighting longstanding relationships, both with Royal Bodewes and manufacturer Furuno.

Pipe laying of the 1,224 kilometer long Nord Stream Pipeline started in April 2010. Today , anno 2018, one of the pipe-laying barges is Saipem's CASTORO DIECI used for the shallow waters in Germany.

UK-based Iridium satcom specialist, Rock Seven, has teamed up with Network Innovations Inc. (“NI”) to supply the field hardware for NI’s expansion into IoT applications in the aviation, maritime, government and land mobile sectors. The reseller partnership with Rock Seven enables NI to provide a suite of dependable, adaptable and efficient asset-tracking solutions that deliver a strong Return on Investment (ROI) to its customers.

Prysmian Group, a world leader in the energy and telecom cable systems industry, has been awarded a contract by Van Oord Offshore Wind B.V. for the development of a submarine inter–array cables system for Borssele III & IV offshore wind farms.

Rock Seven, a communications technology and services developer renowned for the dependability and user-friendliness of its Iridium-based satellite tracking systems, has struck a partnership with industry-leading Blue Sky Network, a provider of mission-critical, satellite-based fleet management, tracking, and operational analytics solutions serving private, commercial, and government customers worldwide.

SatADSL, a provider of professional VSAT services via satellite, and UK-based Teleport operator and service provider Cobbett Hill Earth Station announced a new partnership to deliver value-added services across the European maritime sector.

MetOcean Telematics has signed an agreement with Iridium Communications Inc. to become a land and maritime-mobile service provider for its next-generation satellite broadband technology, Iridium Certus. This agreement will allow MetOcean Telematics to provide its clients with enterprise-grade broadband functionality using the only truly global communications solution.

Original research commissioned by Inmarsat suggests that the maritime industry is more amenable to adopting analytic, management and operational tools applied through the Internet of Things (IoT) than many commentators have supposed.