wiredinUSA February 2020

Higher fiber count Greater Bay opportunities

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Angola Cables and Companhia de Telecomunicações de Macau (CTM) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to enhance digital opportunities for business between Macau, mainland China, African Portuguese-speaking countries and Brazil. CTM will use its international network, and Macau’s position in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-MacauGreater Bay area, as a hub for the digitalization of the Asia-Pacific region. Macau and its neighboring regions are said to offer the conditions and opportunities to be the landing point for international cable systems and an “ideal location for hosting data centers, in order to promote the digital ecosystem of the region.” Angola Cables has a high capacity submarine cable network in the Atlantic region, and data centers in Angola and Brazil.

NEC and its subsidiary OCC Corporation have completed the full qualification of subsea repeaters and optical cable containing up to 40 fibers (20 fiber-pairs) - a 25 percent increase in fiber count over NEC’s previous systems. NEC said only minor modifications to key repeater components were necessary to achieve the new design. The 20 fiber-pair repeaters continue to use NEC’s quadruple pump sharing technology. OCC’s 20 fiber-pair cable can be manufactured using a wide range of existing optical fibers, according to need; easy identification of individual fibers allows the number of fibers in a cable to be increased. “As global capacity demand continues to soar, NEC is committed to helping our customers scale up their networks in a cost-effective way,” said Takaaki Ogata, executive technical manager of NEC’s submarine network division. “Further significant increases in the fiber-pair count of NEC’s wet plant are coming soon,” he added.

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