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Connecting Polynesia

Photo by Matt Hardy on Unsplash

After three years of planning, design, cable manufacture and cable laying, the Manatua One Polynesia cable project is officially ready for service. Since completing the cable lay in January 2020, the focus has been on commissioning and testing to confirm the system functions to specifications prior to handover by the turnkey supplier, SubCom. Manatua is the result of a collaboration initiated in April 2017 with the signing of an international treaty by the president of French Polynesia, the prime minister of the Cook Islands, the prime minister of the Independent State of Samoa, and the premier of the government of Niue. The 3,600km optical fiber submarine cable crosses the South Pacific, connecting Tahiti and Bora Bora in French Polynesia, Rarotonga and Aitutaki in the Cook Islands, Niue and Samoa. It is the first submarine cable in the Cook Islands and Niue which, until now, have relied on satellite connectivity. The Manatua cable comprises two optical fiber pairs, each capable of carrying data at 10Tbs per second, and is designed to provide service for at least 25 years. Cable ship SubCom Reliance landing the cable at Rutaki passage, Rarotonga, Cook Islands, in January 2020

Orange additional spectrum capacity on the MainOne submarine cable by utilizing Infinera’s fourth-generation Infinite Capacity Engine (ICE4) on its XTS-3600 platform. MainOne is a 7,000km submarine cable connecting Portugal, Senegal, Ghana, Cote d’Ivoire and Nigeria, serving as the West African backbone network for Orange’s international connectivity in Africa. has deployed

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