wiredInUSA November 2016

Routingproblems area regular thing for companies ever expanding their networks. And the work that some of these companies undertake is truly amazing, whether it is bringing renewable power to communities, or communications. This has been highlighted in the latest issue of wiredInUSA, with a $1.1 billion wind farm and 90-mile transmission line in eastern Colorado (page 9), the laying of 3,500 tonnes of cable under the Northumberland Strait between Prince Edward Island and New Brunswick (page 10), and the addition of fiber routes across the Rockies, taking in Salt Lake City, Reno, Las Vegas and Silicon Valley (page 12). These problems can also provide environmental challenges. A quick glance to page 25 will show how engineers from the UK’s Electricity North West have begun upgrading power cable under England’s deepest lake, Wastwater in picturesque Cumbria. 560m of power cable will be pulled alongside the lakeside by engineers as part of the second phase of the $700,000 project. And stretching further afield to New Zealand, the cable-laying ship Ile de Re has docked in Auckland prior to laying a 2,300km cable from Ngarunui Beach in Ragland to Narrabeen Beach in Australia (page 34). #65 EDITOR

David Bell Editor

wiredInUSA - November 2016

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