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  • Telkom contracts NEC for new subsea cable

    Telkom contracts NEC for new subsea cable

    Indonesia’s PT Telkom has contracted NEC to build a cable system connecting six of the nation’s large islands with Singapore.

    The Indonesia Global Gateway Cable System will link the islands of Sumatra, Batam, Java, Bali, Kalimantan and Sulawesi.

    As well as providing enhanced connectivity between nine major Indonesian cities, the cable will link to Singapore and provide direct connectivity with two international subsea cables that land in Europe and the US respectively.

    The 100Gbps, eight wavelength, four fiber pair cable system will span around 5,300km in total. It is scheduled for completion in early 2018.

    “NEC is honored to be selected once again by Telkom as the supplier of an optical fiber submarine cable system, the advanced 100Gb/s IGG system,” NEC general manager for submarine networks Toru Kawauchi said.

    “Since first building an optical fiber submarine cable system for Telkom in 1991, NEC has continuously helped to expand Indonesia’s domestic connectivity, the Papua Cable System (SMPCS) being the latest such contribution.”

    The Sulawesi Maluku Papua Cable System connects eight provinces in eastern Indonesia – East Nusa Tenggara, Maluku, North Maluku, North Sulawesi, Papua, Southeast Sulawesi, South Sulawesi and West Papua.

    The nine cities that will be connected via the IGG system are Dumai, Batam, Jakarta, Madura, Bali, Makassar, Bilikpapan, Takaran and Manado.

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  • Hawaiki launches marine route survey for trans-Pacific cable

    Hawaiki launches marine route survey for trans-Pacific cable

    Hawaiki Cable and subsea cable provider TE SubCom have launched a marine route survey for the planned cable linking Australia and New Zealand with Hawaii and the mainland US.

    Construction of the 14,000km cable system is currently scheduled for completion in mid-2018. As well as the main route, the system will have options to expand to several South Pacific islands.

    Once complete, the Hawaiki Cable will deliver more than 30Tbps of capacity, making it the highest cross-sectional capacity link between the US and Australia/New Zealand.

    Hawaiki has already signed on AWS, Vodafone, REANZ and American Samoa Telecom as anchor customers for the new carrier-neutral cable system.

    “Each stage of this groundbreaking project is important, but after very carefully planning our trans-pacific route and conducting an extensive survey of each landing site, we are extremely pleased to launch the marine route survey, which will give us data necessary to safely and properly deploy the system in the coming months,” Hawaiki CEO Remi Galasso said.

    “The team is doing a great job; we are on time and on budget. We are confident that with our trusted supplier, TE SubCom, our cable will be delivered as planned in mid-2018, less than two years from now.”

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