wiredInUSA March 2019

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Taiwan taking cable

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LS Cable and System is to supply 170km of 66kV submarine cables to Taiwan, and is believed to be the first Korean cable maker to export to the country. The Taiwanese market has large submarine cable projects scheduled for implementation by 2025. LS Cable will supply cable for the Yunlin offshore wind farm, under construction by YunNeng Wind Power Company, for installation by Seaway Offshore Cables, part of the Subsea 7 group. The aim of the project is to alleviate power shortages resulting from the scheduled shutdown of several nuclear power plants. Taiwan is investing $23 billion in the construction of 5.5GW of offshore wind power, with a submarine power grid spanning over 2,000km.

NEC has won a contract from Okinawa Cellular Telephone Company to design, engineer, supply, install, test and implement an optical submarine cable system to connect Okinawa and Kagoshima prefectures in Japan. The cable is scheduled to begin operation in April 2020. This new cable will connect to Nago city in Okinawa prefecture, and Hioki city in Kagoshima prefecture, with a total length of approximately 760km and a maximum depth of around 1,200m. The proposed system will employ the latest optical wavelengthmultiplex transmissionmethod, with a maximum design transmission capacity of 80Tbps. NEC will provide the optical system as a turnkey project, providing all aspects of submarine cable operations including the production of optical transmission terminal stations, optical submarine repeaters, optical submarine cables, ocean surveys and route designs, installation of equipment and cable installation, training and delivery testing. NEC’s subsidiary, OCC Corporation, is responsible for the manufacture of the cable.

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wiredInUSA - March 2019