Subsea Cable

TE SubCom, a TE Connectivity Ltd company and an industry pioneer in undersea communications technology, announces that it has secured a contract from leading connectivity and data center solutions provider, MainOne, to extend its active submarine cable system into West Africa’s francophone region with two additional branches connecting Senegal (Dakar) and Cote D’Ivoire (Abidjan).

Nearly five years ago, NASA and Lincoln Laboratory made history when the Lunar Laser Communication Demonstration (LLCD) used a pulsed laser beam to transmit data from a satellite orbiting the moon to Earth — more than 239,000 miles — at a record-breaking download speed of 622 megabits per second.

Increased demand for the AgilePlans(TM) subscription-based Connectivity as a Service (CaaS) program from KVH Industries, Inc. has been the driving force behind the company's unprecedented growth in VSAT unit deployments during the first six months of 2018, a timeframe when the maritime industry has been increasing its drive toward digitalization.

GlobeNet, the leading, fastest growing wholesale provider of telecom infrastructure in the Americas, and Facebook, announces that they have begun construction of the new submarine cable system GlobeNet announced in May. GlobeNet and Facebook will co-own the system and it will be operated by GlobeNet.

Furuno and Radio Holland have prolonged their partnership with distributorship agreements. The senior management of both companies signed the agreements during SMM in Hamburg. The companies have been working together in the global maritime market for more than 55 years.

Marlink will in September launch XChange FX, an advanced new hardware solution designed to maximize value for its customers using Inmarsat Fleet Xpress voice and data services.

The digital transformation of the commercial shipping industry will pass a major milestone this September. Inmarsat has confirmed that the 5,000th ship installation of Fleet Xpress, the world’s only high-speed, globally-available Ka-band VSAT service designed for mobility and available from a single operator, will be completed by the close of the month.

NKT has successfully commissioned the 220 kV HVAC cable systems for the offshore wind park Walney Extension in the Irish Sea. When fully operational later this year, Walney Extension will become the world’s largest wind farm contributing a significant amount of green electricity to the UK’s energy mix.

Prysmian Group has been awarded a new contract worth approximately €21 million by IPTO (Independent Power Transmission Operator), the Transmission System Operator of the Greek electricity system, for two interconnections between the Cyclades islands (Evia, Andros and Tinos), Greece.

Inmarsat has unveiled Fleet Data, a new Internet of Things (IoT) service, which will enable ship owners and managers to access and analyze real-time onboard data more efficiently, and as a result will help accelerate the adoption of IoT across the maritime industry.

Marlink is unveiling Cyber Detection, a unique and intelligent threat detection solution for the maritime industry at SMM 2018 this week, as part of its fully integrated ship and shore-based Cyber Guard portfolio. Cyber Guard enables Marlink customers to protect, detect and resolve any cyber-threat through a holistic combination of network resilience and redundancy, dedicated maritime cyber-security technology and maritime Security Operation Center (SOC) experts.

Intellian, a world leading provider of satellite communication antenna systems, is launching its new 85cm Ku to Ka band convertible maritime VSAT antenna, the Intellian v85NX, the first to be developed based on the high-performance more reliable NX platform.