Subsea Cable

Huawei Marine Networks Co. Ltd. has successfully delivered the Avassa submarine cable system. This will be the 10th submarine cable project that Huawei Marine has been involved with in Africa.

KVH Industries, Inc., announced that numerous global fleets have subscribed to or expanded their deployments of its IP-MobileCast™ content delivery service in recent months, reflecting the increased importance that ship managers are placing on the competitive advantages of a focus on staffing optimization.

NTT Communications Corporation (NTT Com), the ICT solutions and international communications business within the NTT Group, NTT World Engineering Marine Corporation (NTTWEM) and NTT Finance Corporation jointly held a launch ceremony on November 16 for their new submarine cable-laying vessel “Kizuna” at Kanrei shipyard in Tokushima, Japan.

GTT Communications, Inc., a leading global cloud networking provider to multinational clients, announced a definitive agreement to acquire Hibernia Networks, a leading provider of global, high-speed network connectivity solutions and owner of terrestrial and subsea fiber assets including Hibernia Express, the lowest latency transatlantic cable system.

NEC Corporation has finished construction of the Asia Pacific Gateway (APG) Submarine Cable connecting Japan, South Korea, Mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia and Singapore.

TE SubCom, a TE Connectivity Ltd. company, and Ciena have agreed to an alliance that furthers the advancement of open submarine cable networking solutions.

Subsea IMR provider, N-Sea, has increased its fleet through the long term charter of Siem Offshore’s offshore subsea construction vessel, the Siem Barracuda.

Makai Ocean Engineering is now offering an advanced cable laying course for operators who have managed real cable installations at-sea using MakaiLay. In addition to filling any knowledge gaps that operators might have in basic lay operations, this MakaiLay Level-II training course focuses on more advanced scenarios that might arise at-sea.

Prysmian Group, a world leader in the energy and telecom cable systems industry, has been awarded a contract worth up to 13 M euro - by Tideway B.V. for the Rentel offshore wind farm project.

The offshore wind industry is expanding at a rapid pace, making timely, accurate intelligence more valuable than ever for companies who install, operate, and maintain subsea cable systems. Of course, the same is true for companies providing products and services in support of these companies.

Low-latency route between Hong Kong and U.S. to be completed by summer 2018

Tampnet Inc., the US subsidiary of the Norwegian-based leading offshore high capacity and low latency communications provider Tampnet AS (“Tampnet”), recently announced the closing of its acquisition of Broadpoint LLC (“Broadpoint”), a pioneer within offshore communications to the Oil & Gas (“O&G”) industry in the Gulf of Mexico (“GoM”).