Three items of subsea infrastructure going on this week, two within EMEA and one on the other side of the globe.
The steady march of terabit trials has now reached the south Pacific. Southern Cross and Ciena today announced the first 1Tbps single carrier wavelength trial between Sydney and Los Angeles, a trip of 13,500km. Southern Cross expects to begin volume deployment of Ciena’s WL6e technology this quarter across its three transpacific cable systems.
Nokia’s technology is taking a trip offshore into the North Sea off of the Netherlands. TenneT will be using Nokia’s technology to connect eight new 2GW wind platforms back to its terrestrial network. The project will begin this year, but full operational readiness of Tennet’s first 2GW platform is not expected until 2029.
And Sparkle has teamed up with Ocean Environmental Cables to clean up past subsea cable deployments. The two have signed an agreement to recover and recycle multiple unused telecommunications cables, targeting 22,000km of infrastructure in the Mediterranean. By recycling and re-using the optical fibre, copper, steel, aluminum, HDPE, and LDPE that make up the sables some 35,000 tons of CO2e may be saved.
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