wiredInUSA March 2020

Meeting increasing demand

Korea buys local

LS Cable and System has signed a contract with Korea Electric Power Corporation (KEPCO) to supplyHVDCcables. Theproject is for the stable supply of power to industrial complexes in the metropolitan area using a 35km transmission line between the power plant in Seohaean Chungnam to Pyeongtaek, Gyeonggi-do. A single HVDC line can carry 3GWof power, equal to the power generated from three nuclear power plants. This is the world’s largest power transmission capacity and is 4.5 times more than existing HVAC cable. This is the fourth project in the Korean domestic HVDC market since European cables were installed between Haenam and Jeju in 1997. That project was before cables were developed in Korea: LS C&S was given the next three projects. President and CEO of LS C&S, Roe-hyun Myung, said: “Korea is leading the global next-generation power business with HVDC and hyper-conductive cables, fueled by KEPCO’s energy efficiency business. Based on [the] technological independence achieved in Korea, we will actively expand our overseas markets.”

Pakistan Telecommunication Company Ltd (PTCL) has used Nokia technology to expand the capacity of its recently installed 100G transport network to a 200G optical network. The capacity expansion has been carried out in Islamabad, Lahore and Karachi to keep pacewith the regions’ growing capacity demands. PTCL is believed the first operator in Pakistan to deploy high-performance 200G 8-quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) — an optical long-haul technology that offers greater capacity at lower cost. The upgrade of its optical network allows PTCL to flexibly enhance network capacity with the software defined network (SDN) capabilities of the Nokia optical solution. Nokia’s “flexgrid” technology will allow PTCL to easily upgrade to 300G or 400G at some point in the future over the same installed base.

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