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April 2015
Overview
The global submarine cable industry continues to witness high growth and is
amongst one of the prime focus areas by the leading telecom carriers globally-
which has aptly been supported by the recent development and advancements in
the underlying and supporting technologies for it and increased demand for
bandwidth. Long-haul trials of 400G wavelengths was successfully conducted in the
year 2014 and it is soon expected that the terabit wavelengths would soon be
operational in the next few years.
Increasing numbers of vendors are also facilitating the carriers to achieve the
connectivity targets across various regions. The Supply vendors and the Upgrade
vendors continue to focus on the increasing demand for bandwidth requirements
created owing to digitization across the countries. Also, these vendors also act as
key strategic implementation partners to facilitate the timely deployments of the
cable networks and also help them in the cost optimization, which helps these
carriers to overcome the pricing pressure due to increased competition.
This research report provides an overall analysis of the global submarine cable
network and also focuses on the analysis across key regions for these cable
networks. It provides an overview of major submarine cable networks which exists
across the globe. Additionally, the recent development in the submarine cable
networks is also covered in the report. It also includes an analysis and overview of
some of the major vendors (suppliers) for the submarine cable networks.
The report is generated through secondary findings available on the internet and
the relevant sources of data have been mentioned wherever applicable.
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Target Audience
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List of Contents
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4.19 Tata TGN-Western Europe ................................................................... 47
4.20 Tata TGN-Pacific .............................................................................. 48
4.21 Tata TGN-Intra Asia (TGN-IA) ............................................................... 49
4.22 Tata TGN-Gulf ................................................................................. 50
4.23 TAT-14 .......................................................................................... 51
4.24 Tampnet Offshore FOC Network ............................................................ 52
4.25 Suriname-Guyana Submarine Cable System (SG-SCS) .................................... 53
4.26 Southern Cross Cable Network (SCCN) ..................................................... 54
4.27 Southern Caribbean Fiber.................................................................... 55
4.28 Southeast Asia Japan Cable (SJC) .......................................................... 56
4.29 South American Crossing (SAC)/Latin American Nautilus (LAN) ........................ 57
4.30 South America-1 (SAm-1) .................................................................... 58
4.31 Sistem Kabel Rakyat 1Malaysia (SKR1M) ................................................... 59
4.32 SEA MEA WE-5 ................................................................................. 60
4.33 SEA ME WE-4 ................................................................................... 61
4.34 SAT-3/WASC ................................................................................... 62
4.35 SAFE............................................................................................. 63
4.36 PLDT Domestic Fiber Optic Network (DFON) .............................................. 64
4.37 Pan-American Crossing (PAC) ............................................................... 65
4.38 Pan American (PAN-AM) ...................................................................... 66
4.39 Pacific Caribbean Cable System (PCCS) ................................................... 67
4.40 New Cross Pacific (NCP) Cable System..................................................... 68
4.41 Middle East North Africa (MENA) Cable System/Gulf Bridge International ........... 69
4.42 MedNautilus Submarine System ............................................................. 70
4.43 Med Cable Network ........................................................................... 71
4.44 Maya-1 .......................................................................................... 72
4.45 Interchange Cable Network 2 (ICN2) ....................................................... 73
4.46 IMEWE .......................................................................................... 74
4.47 Gulf Bridge International Cable System (GBICS)/Middle East North Africa (MENA)
Cable System ........................................................................................ 75
4.48 FLAG North Asia Loop/REACH North Asia Loop ........................................... 76
4.49 FLAG Europe-Asia (FEA) ...................................................................... 77
4.50 Bay of Bengal Gateway (BBG) ............................................................... 78
4.51 Asia Submarine-cable Express (ASE)/Cahaya Malaysia .................................. 79
4.52 Asia Pacific Gateway (APG) ................................................................. 80
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4.53 SEACOM/Tata TGN-Eurasia .................................................................. 81
4.54 SEA-US .......................................................................................... 82
4.55 Russian Optical Trans-Arctic Cable System (ROTACS) ................................... 83
5. Key Updates in the Global Submarine Cable Market ................................. 84
6. Major Submarine Cable Vendors ........................................................ 95
6.1 Fujitsu .......................................................................................... 95
6.2 Huawei Marine Networks .................................................................. 105
6.3 TE Connectivity ............................................................................. 108
6.4 NSW ........................................................................................... 115
6.5 ZTT International Ltd ...................................................................... 117
6.6 Nexans ........................................................................................ 119
6.7 OCC Corporation ............................................................................ 125
6.8 NEC............................................................................................ 127
6.9 Alcatel-Lucent ............................................................................... 131
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List of Figures
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Figure 85: Alcatel-Lucent- Revenue across Geographies .......................................................... 133
Figure 86: Alcatel-Lucent- Revenue across Geographies, 2012-2014...................................... 134
Figure 87: Alcatel-Lucent- Revenues by reported Segments .................................................... 134
Figure 88: Alcatel-Lucent- Revenues by reported Segments, 2012-2014 ............................... 135
List of Tables
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1. Executive Summary
The global submarine cable industry continues to witness high growth and is
amongst one of the prime focus areas by the leading telecom carriers globally-
which has aptly been supported by the recent development and advancements in
the underlying and supporting technologies for it and increased demand for
transmission bandwidth. Long-haul trials of 400G wavelengths was successfully
conducted in the year 2014 and it is soon expected that the terabit wavelengths
would soon be operational in the next few years. The industry which continued to
be dominated by 10G transmission technology for more than 10 years in the past-
seems to continue to undergo a paradigm shift as far as the bandwidth capacity
requirement is considered for the future. Also, owing to the fact that most of the
past submarine cable systems were built on the past technologies, which either
cannot support high bandwidth requirements of today or cannot also be upgraded,
there will an increasing probability of carriers investing in the next-generation
submarine cable system deployments, which will be more robust and cater to the
increase in the demand of bandwidth requirement of the future.
The first fiber optic cable, TAT-8, entered into service in December 1988. The sub-
marine cable system within the initial decade of its existence was mostly
controlled by consortia of operators, which included Government owned telcos
primarily. However, with the liberalization of the European telecommunications
market in the year 1998, the industry witnessed an upsurge in the investment and
growth. Driven by such positive signs, the investment in the submarine cable
systems increased from less than $1 billion in 1998 to in excess of $3 billion in
2000, which surged to more than $12 billion in 2001. As a result, the price of
international bandwidth reduced owing to increased competition across majority of
the transoceanic markets and increased developments in the dense wavelength
division multiplexing (DWDM) technology. However, as a result of this major
international wholesale network operators had declared bankruptcy, and
deployment of new undersea fiber optic systems came to a virtual standstill.
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Supply contracts continue to witness upward trend in the recent years as the
market was muted until the last 2-3 years owing to the oversupply of capacity
which existed owing to the huge investments made by the concerned entities (like
telcos, enterprises, network equipments suppliers) in the past 15-20 years, which
somehow subsided owing to the global recession in 2008 and the continued Euro
zone crisis which prevailed 2-3 years (and continued crisis owing to Greece). The
demand and investment continue to increase in the recent years owing to
increasing demand which has resulted in the positive sentiment. The submarine
cable systems growth is being driven by increased focus on the emerging and less-
developed regions in the recent years like China, India, and Brazil which continue
to drive the overall telecom focus and growth be leading telcos. Also, increased
focus on the new routes and secondary markets by the investors and consortium
companies still continue to drive the growth in these companies.
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2. Overview and Analysis of Existing Submarine Cable Systems
The first fiber optic cable became operational in the year 1988. The prices on
international bandwidth continues to grow exponentially until the year 2002, when
the bandwidth prices which witnessed a steep fall, further resulted in the
investments being made in the submarine optical fiber network to come to a
standstill. During the period 2003-2007, the industry continued to witness a very
low investment.
The overall investment continues to witness a very slow but steady growth during
the period 2009 onwards, when the operators realized the opportunities by
deploying fiber network to interconnect the regions, which were relatively
underserved or lack sufficient fiber connectivity. The fiber optics which was being
deployed in the later phase also witnesses a transition from 40G to 100G
transmission technology.
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Figure 2: Deployment of New Submarine Fiber Optic Projects, 1987-2014
(Route Kilometers by RFS Date)
As per the data from the consulting firm Terabit Consulting, investments in excess
of $11 billion were made during the period 2008-14. Connectivity to the Sub-Sahara
African region witnessed investments of ~$3billion, whereas establishing fiber
connectivity between India and the Middle East to Europe had an investment of
~$1.7 billion. The BRICS region particularly the countries of Brazil, India, China,
and South Africa witnessed an investments of ~$7 billion during the period.
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As per industry sources, the period between 2015 and beyond over the next few
years has in total of more than 150 new projects with a cumulative investment of
more than $22 billion. Out of this total investment amount, the projects which
currents in the advanced stages of deployment/completion stages and might
become operational accounts for ~$5 billion of the total investment. The projects
which would take a few years (medium term) for deployment accounts for
~$8 billion of total investments, whereas the projects which are still in the
planning stages/initial stages of deployment together accounts for ~$9.5 billion
investment in total.
Figure 4: Proposed Submarine Fiber Optic Projects by Region, 2015 and Beyond
(“High-Activity” and “Medium-Activity” Projects)
The key contrasting factor here is that the most of the investments is diversified
across all the regions as compared to only the developed regions a decade ago. The
developing markets and uncovered regions continue to witness the major influx of
this total investment.
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2.2 Transatlantic Regional Market Overview and Analysis
Transatlantic region basically includes the submarine cable network between North
America and European Union region. This was the most heavily invested and sough
region by the operators for investment.
The region boasts of currently 9 major deployed networks with the current
transmission speed of 23 Tbps.
The telecommunications market of the European Union was liberalized in the year
1998 and within half- a decade post the liberalization, total of 16 transatlantic
cable started services within the countries of the European Union and the United
States. A total of around 16+ cables was commissioned and became operational
during the period, which has witnessed almost zero level activity in the last
decade.
A key factor which continues to make the cable connectivity between these regions
as highly important and lucrative is the advancements in upgrade technology. The
cable connectivity is highly competitive on the terms of price and bandwidth of the
fibers existing.
The cable in the region has been the forefront in terms of 100G upgrades with
multiple cable networks such as Apollo, TGN-Atlantic, and FLAG Atlantic-1 etc
witnessing the 100G wavelength implementation. Alcatel-Lucent in partnership
with Apollo transmitted data at the speed of 7.2Tbps using the 100G wavelength in
the year 2014.
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The deployment of new transatlantic cable projects has emerged as the prime
focus areas over the last 10 years. The deployments was very slow/negligible over
the last decade owing to expected competitive and relatively challenging
environment which might be confront by the new deployed network on the
capacity as well as bandwidth front.
Table 2: Key Transatlantic Cable Systems planned between European Union and
Americas
Some of the major cable systems which has been planned to be deployed across
the region includes Fibre Atlantic, WASACE North (WASACE Phase III), Brazil-Europe
/Atlantic Cable System-Europe (ACSea-EUR). Brazil-Europe / Atlantic Cable System-
Europe (ACSea-EUR) for instance is estimated to have an investment of $185
million and would interconnect the Brazil region with European region.
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2.3 Transpacific Regional Market Overview and Analysis
Transpacific region basically includes the submarine cable network between the
Asia-Pacific region with the North American region. The region continues to witness
increased investment and has been in the prime focus in the recent years as it was
relatively less connected as compared to the other developed regions and also the
2 major emerging economies China and India belong to this region. The region
came into existence and became popular destination for investment post the
saturation and low investment period of 2000-2002.
The region boasts of currently 7 major deployed networks with the current
transmission speed of 20 Tbps.
The initial thrust for the deployment of network in the regions was mostly inclined
between US and Japan. However, in 1999 a network was built to connect China
with the US. Post the year 2008, the other emerging and previously relatively low
connectivity countries like Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, Taiwan, Philippines, South
Korea etc have been connected by Trans Pacific Express and Asia-America Gateway
cables, which has inturn resulted in the improving the global connectivity for these
regions as well as reducing bandwidth costs to cater to the increasing requirements
of these emerging markets.
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The region is witnessing an upward trend towards increasing deployment. Also, the
operators are focusing on the deployment of additional capacity based on the
segmentation as per the requirements across these regions.
Some of the major cable systems planned to be deployed in the region includes
SEA-US, Pacific Cloud Xchange (PCX), Faster etc. The Chinese telcos have been
active in the deployment of the network in the region.
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2.4 Oceania Regional Market Overview and Analysis
Oceania region (comprising of New Zealand and Australia) has witnessed a strong
growth in the international bandwidth requirement in the recent years. The
demand for international bandwidth is expected to be relatively on the higher side
as compared to the developed regions owing to the increasing investments to
facilitate the growth in broadband penetration across the region.
The region boasts of currently 6 major deployed networks with the current
transmission speed of 5 Tbps.
The bandwidth prices in the Australian sub-region are higher as compared to the
other developed region, however for New Zealand it is somewhat closer to the
international norms. The 4 leading telecom operators in the region namely Singtel
Optus, Telstra, Vodafone/Vodafone Hutchison Australia and Telecom New control
more than 90% of the total consumer market.
Global Cloud Xchange plans to deploy a transpacific Pacific Cloud Xchange (PCX)
cable with aim to make it operational by 2015. The region continues be the hot
target for investment in the submarine cable networks with leadings companies
such as Google, Microsoft, Facebook etc have been focusing upon the software
defined wide area networks the and have made significant investments in some of
the leading cable system existing in the region such as Southeast Asia-Japan cable
and transpacific Unity cable.
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Some of the major cable deployments across the region includes Australia-
Singapore Cable (ASC), Asia Pacific Express East (APX-East) etc.
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2.5 North America and Latin America Regional Market Overview and Analysis
This region primarily comprises of the Latin American countries and the US, but the
international bandwidth requirements and demand concentrated towards US.
The region boasts of currently 4 major deployed networks with the current
transmission speed of 9 Tbps.
Majority of the demand for internet requirement is driven by requirement for the
bandwidth concentrated towards North America (particularly Miami) and the
transport pricing is also relatively much higher as compared to the Transatlantic
cable system- as much of the market is controlled by only the 3 cable network
owners mentioned above.
Table 7: Selected Popular Existing North America and Latin America Cable
Systems
The increasing demand for bandwidth in the Latin American market is primarily
driven by Brazil, which accounts for more than 50% of bandwidth demand required
in the South American region.
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This is mainly due to the fact that it is witnessing a growth in the economic
conditions, which has also spurred in the demand from the telecommunications and
Internet services.
The Latin America market continues to witness strong growth in its internet
population base. The recent popularity of the social media and on-demand video
trends have also added a spark to this growth trend. The increasing demand for
accessing Facebook, Google and other popular sites will further drive the
increasing investment in the cable networks in the region.
Table 8: Key Cable Systems planned in the North America and Latin America
region
In addition to this, there is also a strong plan for the cable systems linkages
between South America with the other regions primarily Europe and Pacific region.
Also, Telbras the Government owned administrator of Brazil‟s National Broadband
plan is also planning for a direct submarine cable network between South America
and Europe. The demand for increased bandwidth between the African region and
the Latin American region, may further lead to increased connectivity between the
two regions.
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2.6 Africa and Sub-Sahara Regional Market Overview and Analysis
The region continues to witness increasing demand for bandwidth over the least 2-
3 years owing to increased bandwidth and internet demand driven growth of the
economy in most of the countries of the region and relatively low/uncovered areas
which was already existing. Increased adoption of mobile phones is driving the
demand for bandwidth and operator‟s revenue. Also, financial support from leading
institutions such as African Development Bank and World bank etc, has contributed
to the increased lending for infrastructure deployments by the telcos and
infrastructure vendors in the region.
The region boasts of currently 9 major deployed networks with the current
transmission speed of ~2Tbps.
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The region continues to offer a huge potential for the operators in the region, as
the demand from the domestic market is bound to increase, owing to increase in
the broadband demand from the users in the region.
Table 10: Key Cable Systems planned in Africa and Sub-Sahara region
Sooner or later, the region will witness increased connectivity to the European and
North American region, which would further increase the competition for
bandwidth capacity and pricing in the country.
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2.7 South East Asia and Middle East Regional Market Overview and Analysis
The demand for bandwidth in the region has been driven by the growth in the
demand from the key countries like India, Saudi Arabia, UAE etc.The growth has
been primarily be driven by India, owing to the strong growth in the domestic
demand and its strong industry associations with the companies located in North
America, Europe and Latin American region.
The region boasts of currently 9 major deployed networks with the current
transmission speed of ~2 Tbps. The cable market has witnessed in the recent times
increased traction for deployment of cable between the region with Europe by
avoiding the hindrance of crossing terrestrially through Egypt.
Table 11: Selected Popular Existing South East Asia and Middle East Cable
Systems
Name of the
RFS (Year) Submarine Cable Owner
Network
FLAG Europe-Asia Global Cloud Xchange (Reliance
1997
(FEA) Globalcom)
1999 SEA-ME-WE 3 Consortium
2002 i2i Bharti Airtel
2002 SAT-3/SAFE Consortium
2004 TGN-TIC Tata Communications
2005 SEA-ME-WE-4 Consortium
Global Cloud Xchange (Reliance
2006 Falcon
Globalcom)
IPS (Aga Khan Fund) / Remgro / Herakles
2009 Seacom / TGN Eurasia Telecom / Convergence Partners /
Shanduka Group / Tata Communications
2010 I-Me-We Consortium
Europe India Gateway
2011 Consortium
(EIG)
Gulf Bridge
Gulf Bridge International / Orascom
2012 International (GBI)/
Holdings
MENA
Some of the major submarine cable network which exists in the region are FLAG,
Falcon, SeaMeWE-3 and SeaMeWE-4 etc. A major cable system which would be
coming upon soon is the SeaMeWE-5 cable system which will be operational soon.
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SeMeaWE-5 is with a fiber network spanning across ~25,000 kms will connect across
the major regions such as.
Another network Bay of Bengal Gateway (BBG) cable system, will be connecting
across the major centers across Sri Lanka, Oman, India, UAE and Malaysia. Another
cable system known as India Cloud Xchange (ICX) will be connecting Singapore and
India with its ~5,000kms network.
Table 12: Key Cable Systems planned in South East Asia and Middle East region
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3. Overview of Suppliers
The suppliers of the submarine cable industry can be categorized into two broad
categories namely System Suppliers and Upgrade Suppliers.
These include the companies which are involved in the supply of components and
deployment of networks of the submarine cable systems.
The future of the submarine cable system in largely dependent on the huge capital
requirement and increase investment in the technological front. This has further
resulted in only a restricted number of companies being involved in the submarine
cable system involvement. The early era of the submarine fiber cable systems was
divided amongst three major groups like predecessors of Alcatel-Lucent, the
predecessors of TE SubCom and the suppliers community from Japan. However,
owing to increased hindrance by being faced by the key companies like KDD-SCS,
Hitachi Cable, OCC etc, resulted in the decline in the market of the Japanese
community. However, NEC still continues to be leading player in the Asia-Pacific
region in the submarine cable market from the Japanese community, with TE Sub
Com able to maintain uniform market share and Alcatel Lucent continuing to
become stronger in the recent times.
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Huawei Marine Networks- the joint venture between Huawei Technologies and
Global Maine Systems in 2008, further resulted in the increase in the dynamicity of
the submarine supplier markets, as it bid very aggressively for new projects as far
as cost offerings were concerned. This segment is interesting poised considering
the factors such as strategy of Huawei Marine networks (which can be partnership
with leading Chinese manufacturers, which can give it with a cost effective
advantage), the e mergence of Alcatel-Lucent‟s submarine cable division through
its IPO and the emergence and continues growing of the equipment only suppliers
like Infinera, Cienna etc in the coming years.
This includes the companies which are involved in the repair and upgradation of
the submarine cable networks.
Capacity upgrades has become a key requirement and mandate for the existing as
well as planned submarine cable system networks. The provisioning of terminal
equipments for upgradation (which is almost independent of the requirement of
investment in repeater design, manufacturing of cables) has resulted in the most of
the suppliers to also be engaged in the up gradation of the existing networks.
Owing to the robust and the current deployment of the networks considering the
future demand for bandwidth upgrade, the market for the upgrade suppliers is
bound to become increasingly more attractive for the vendors.
Table 13: Key 100G Upgrade Projects for Equipment Suppliers in 2013 and 2014
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4. Major Submarine Cable Networks
Overview: The AKORN network became operational in April 2009 and the overall
cost of the project is estimated to be $105 million.
Landing Points (Nos): 4- Anchorage, Alaska (US); Florence, Oregon (US); Homer,
Alaska (US); Nikiski, Alaska (US)
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4.2 Aden-Djibouti
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4.3 Adria-1
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4.4 ALASIA
Cable Length: NA
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4.5 ALBA-1
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4.6 Aletar
Overview: The cable network became operational in the year April 2007 and
provides connectivity between the 2 countries of the middle-east, namely Syria
and Egypt.
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4.7 ALPAL-2
Overview: The network became operational in the month of July 2002 is owned by
some of the leading global telecom operators like Orange, Telefonica etc and
provides connectivity between Algeria and Spain.
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4.8 Angola Domestic Network System (ADONES)
Landing Points (Nos): 8- Benguela, Cabinda, Luanda, Lucira, N'zeto, Namibe, Porto
Amboim, Soyo (All in Angola)
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4.9 Apollo
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4.10 Aqualink
Owners: Telstra
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4.11 West African Cable System (WACS)
Overview: WACS is a 4 -fiber pair system with total length of approx. 16,000Km;
and is complemented with 15 terminal stations formed by a consortium of leading
17 telecom operators. The network became functional in May 2012.
Landing Points (Nos): 14- Abidjan (Côte d'Ivoire); Accra (Ghana); El Goro, Canary
Islands (Spain); Highbridge (United Kingdom); Lagos Nigeria); Limbe (Cameroon);
Lome(Togo); Muanda Congo, Dem. Rep.); Palmarejo (Cape Verde); Point Noire
(Congo, Rep.); Sangano (Angola); Seixal (Portugal); Swakopmund (Namibia);
Yzerfontein (South Africa)
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4.12 Trident Subsea Cable
Overview: This submarine cable network connects Perth to Onslow, Karratha and
Port Hedland following the North West Coast Highway. It also interconnects
Onslow with the subsea section and form a terrestrial ring and be called the
Southern Trident ring.
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4.13 Transworld (TW1)
Owners: Transworld
Landing Points (Nos): 3- Al Seeb (Oman); Fujairah (United Arab Emirates); Karachi
(Pakistan)
Figure 19: Transworld (TW1) submarine cable route-map and Landing Stations
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4.14 Trans-Pacific Express (TPE) Cable System
Owners: China Telecom, China Unicom, Chunghwa Telecom, KT, Verizon, NTT,
AT&T
Figure 20: Trans-Pacific Express (TPE) Cable System submarine cable route-map
and Landing Stations
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4.15 TE North/TGN-Eurasia/SEACOM/Alexandros
Overview: The network became operational in July 2011 and is owned and
operated upon by 3 telcos namely Tata Communications, SEACOM and Telecom
Egypt. Two fiber pairs is owned by Tata Communications (referred to as TGN-
Eurasia by the company), SEACOM owns one fiber pair and Telecom Egypt operates
TE North, but has sold fiber pairs to several parties.
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4.16 Thailand-Indonesia-Singapore (TIS)
Overview: The network owned by the consortia of 3 leading global telcos became
operational in November 2003 and is a major connecting link in the South-East
Asian region.
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4.17 TERRA SW
Overview: The network which is owned by GCI provides fiber optic network
connecting all the major Alaska‟s population center.
Owners: GCI
Landing Points (Nos): 11- Fish Camp, Homer, Igiugig, Illiamna, Kokhanok,
Newhalem, Nondalton, Pedro Bay, Pile Bay, Port Alwsorth, Williamsport (All in
Alaska United States)
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4.18 The East African Marine System (TEAMS)
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4.19 Tata TGN-Western Europe
Figure 25: Tata TGN-Western Europe submarine cable route-map and Landing
Stations
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4.20 Tata TGN-Pacific
Landing Points (Nos): 5- Emi (Japan); Hillsboro, Oregon (United States); Los
Angeles, California( United States); Piti (Guam); Toyohashi (Japan)
Figure 26: Tata TGN-Pacific submarine cable route-map and Landing Stations
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4.21 Tata TGN-Intra Asia (TGN-IA)
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4.22 Tata TGN-Gulf
Landing Points (Nos): 6- Al Khobar (Saudi Arabia); Al-Kheesa (Qatar); Amwaj Island
(Bahrain); Dubai (United Arab Emirates); Fujairah (United Arab Emirates);
Qalhat(Oman)
Figure 28: Tata TGN-Gulf submarine cable route-map and Landing Stations
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4.23 TAT-14
Overview: The TAT-14 transatlantic cable system provides connectivity for United
States to the other countries which includes United Kingdom, France, The
Netherlands, Germany, and Denmark. The cable systems comprises of four fiber
pairs and traffic can be configured point to point or in (protected) ring
configuration. The cable system has a total design capacity of 9.38Tb/s and a total
system (lit) capacity of 3.15Tb/s.
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4.24 Tampnet Offshore FOC Network
The cable system has a total design capacity of 9.38Tb/s and a total system (lit)
capacity of 3.15Tb/s.
Owners: Tampnet
RFS (Year):1999
Figure 30: Tampnet Offshore FOC Network submarine cable route-map and
Landing Stations
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4.25 Suriname-Guyana Submarine Cable System (SG-SCS)
Overview: The submarine cable system which became operational in July 2010,
provides connectivity amongst the Caribbean region.
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4.26 Southern Cross Cable Network (SCCN)
Overview: The submarine cable system which became operational in late 2000,
and consists of two separate submarine cable paths laid across different routes
between Australia and Western Coast of United States. The „Northern‟ route links
Australia, Fiji, Hawaii and the US Mainland, whereas the „Southern‟ route links
Australia, through New Zealand, to Hawaii and on to the US Mainland.
The network contains six optical fibres (3 fibre pairs) between Sydney and Hawaii,
and eight fibres (4 fibre pairs) between Hawaii and the US West Coast. Southern
Cross was originally designed to deliver 120Gbps of fully protected capacity
(240Gbps across the network). Following the introduction of the latest 40Gbps and
100Gbps technology the current system potential is estimated at >12 Tbps. The
current expansion (Phase H) will increase total lit network capacity to 2.7 Tbps
from December 2013, and will utilise 40Gbps and 100Gbps wavelength technology.
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4.27 Southern Caribbean Fiber
Overview: This sub marine fiber network interconnects the major population
centers across the Caribbean region and became operational in September 2006.
Owners: Digicel
Landing Points (Nos): 10- Basseterre (Saint Kitts and Nevis); Canefield (Dominica);
Chaguaramas (Trinidad and Tobago); Kingstown (Saint Vincent and the
Grenadines); Le Lamentin (Martinique); Needham‟s Point (Barbados); Rodney Bay
(Saint Lucia); St. Croix ,Virgin Islands (United States);St. George‟s (Grenada); St.
John‟s (Antigua and Barbuda)
Figure 33: Southern Caribbean Fiber submarine cable route-map and Landing
Stations
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4.28 Southeast Asia Japan Cable (SJC)
Landing Points (Nos): 7- Chikura (Japan); Chung Hom Kok (Hong Kong); Nasugbu
(Philippines); Shantou (China); Songkhla (Thailand); Telisai (Brunei); Tuas
(Singapore)
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4.29 South American Crossing (SAC)/Latin American Nautilus (LAN)
Overview: Level 3 owns three fiber pairs on the systems, which it calls South
American Crossing. Telecom Italia owns one fiber that it refers to as Latin
American Nautilus. Only Level 3 has capacity on the branch to Colombia. The
network became operational in September 2000.
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4.30 South America-1 (SAm-1)
Owners: Telefonica
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4.31 Sistem Kabel Rakyat 1Malaysia (SKR1M)
Landing Points (Nos): 7- Bintulu, Cherating, Kota Kinabalu, Kuching, Mersing, Miri
(All in Malaysia)
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4.32 SEA MEA WE-5
Landing Points (Nos): 18- Abu Talat (Egypt); Al Hudaydah (Yemen); Barka (Oman);
Batam (Indonesia); Catania (Italy); Djibouti City (Djibouti); Fujairah (United Arab
Emirates); Karachi (Pakistan); Kuakata (Bangladesh); Matara (Sri Lanka); Melaka
(Malaysia); Mumbai (India); Ngwe Saung (Myanmar); Satun (Thailand); Toulon
(France); Tuas (Singapore); Yanbu (Saudi Arabia); Zafarana (Egypt)
Figure 38: SEA MEA WE-5 submarine cable route-map and Landing Stations
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4.33 SEA ME WE-4
Overview: This submarine cable system linking South East Asia to Europe via the
Indian Sub-Continent and Middle East. The project aims to take these regions to
the forefront of global communication by significantly increasing the bandwidth
and global connectivity of users along its route between Singapore and France.
The contract is being awarded jointly to Alcatel Submarine Networks, France and
Fujitsu Ltd., Japan and the estimated project cost is of the order of US$ 500
million.
Landing Points (Nos): 16- Alexandria (Egypt); Annaba (Algeria); Bizerte (Tunisia);
Chennai (India); Colombo (Sri Lanka); Cox‟s Bazar (Bangladesh); Fujairah (United
Arab Emirates); Jeddah (Saudi Arabia); Karachi (Pakistan); Marseille (France);
Melaka (Malaysia); Mumbai (India); Palermo (Italy); Satun (Thailand); Suez (Egypt);
Tuas (Singapore)
Figure 39: SEA MEA WE-4 submarine cable route-map and Landing Stations
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4.34 SAT-3/WASC
Overview: SAT-3/WASC submarine cable system cable links some of the major
countries of Africa (Western African region) to European region (like Portugal and
Spain).
Landing Points (Nos): 11- Abidjan (Côte d'Ivoire); Accra (Ghana); Alta Vista,
Canary Islands (Spain); Cacuaco (Angola); Cotonou (Benin); Dakar (Senegal); Douala
(Cameroon); Lagos (Nigeria); Libreville (Gabon); Melkbosstrand (South Africa);
Sesimbra (Portugal)
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4.35 SAFE
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4.36 PLDT Domestic Fiber Optic Network (DFON)
Overview: The PLDT Domestic Fiber Optic Network (DFON) submarine cable
network connects the major centers within Philippines.
Owners: PLDT
RFS: 1997
Length: 11,100kms
Landing points: 13- Butuan City, Cadiz City, Cagayan de Oro, Calbayog, Cebu,
Dumaguete, Legazpi City, Masbate City, Nasugbu, Ormoc, Ozamiz City,
Pinamalayan, Roxas (All in Philippines)
Figure 42: PDLT DFON submarine cable route-map and Landing Stations
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4.37 Pan-American Crossing (PAC)
Overview: The submarine cable network connects the major countries of Central
America, Latin America with the United States.
Owners: Level 3
RFS: 2000
Length: 10,000kms
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4.38 Pan American (PAN-AM)
Overview: The submarine cable network which became functional in early 1999
connects Central and Latain America.
RFS: 1999
Landing points: 10- Arica (Chile); Baby Beach (Aruba); Barranquilla (Colombia);
Colón (Panama); Lurin (Peru); Panama City (Panama); Punta Carnero (Ecuador);
PuntoFijo (Venezuela); St. Croix, Virgin Islands (United States); St. Thomas, Virgin
Islands (United States)
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4.39 Pacific Caribbean Cable System (PCCS)
Overview: The submarine cable network which became functional in May 2015
and interconnects the countries in the Central American region.
RFS: 2015
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4.40 New Cross Pacific (NCP) Cable System
Overview: The submarine cable network connects the countries in the Asia-Pacific
region with the North America.
Owners: China Telecom, China Unicom, Chunghwa Telecom, KT, China Mobile
RFS: 2017
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4.41 Middle East North Africa (MENA) Cable System/Gulf Bridge International
Geographically, MENA cable is divided into three main segments namely the
Mediterranean Segment (which connects Egypt with Italy; Terrestrial Segment
which connects Egypt with itself; and South East Segment which connects Egypt
with Saudi Arabia, Oman and India.
RFS: 2014
Landing points: 6- Abu Talat (Egypt); Al Seeb (Oman); Djibouti City (Djibouti);
Jeddah (Saudi Arabia); Mazara del Vallo (Italy); Zafarana (Egypt)
Figure 47: MENA Cable System/Gulf Bridge International submarine cable route-
map and Landing Stations
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4.42 MedNautilus Submarine System
Overview: The MedNautilus interlocking loop system, links Italy, Greece, Turkey,
Israel, as well as the Pan-European and Atlantic wavelengths which link the major
cities of Western Europe to North America.
RFS: 2001
Figure 48: MedNautilus submarine cable system route-map and Landing Stations
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4.43 Med Cable Network
RFS: 2005
Length: 1,300kms
Figure 49: Med Cable Network submarine cable route-map and Landing Stations
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4.44 Maya-1
RFS: 2000
Landing points: 7- Cancún (Mexico); Half Moon Bay (Cayman Islands); Hollywood,
Florida (United States); Maria Chiquita (Panama); Puerto Cortes (Honduras); Puerto
Limon (Costa Rica); Tolu (Colombia)
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4.45 Interchange Cable Network 2 (ICN2)
Owners: Interchange
RFS: 2016
Length: 3,000kms
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4.46 IMEWE
RFS: 2010
Length: 12,091kms
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4.47 Gulf Bridge International Cable System (GBICS)/Middle East North Africa
(MENA) Cable System
Overview: The entire submarine cable network is owned by the GBI (except for
the fiber pairs which branches for between Oman to Mumbai and is owned by MENA
Cable company.).
RFS: 2012
Length: N.A
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4.48 FLAG North Asia Loop/REACH North Asia Loop
Overview: Global Cloud Xchange (which was known as Reliance Globalcom earlier)
owns 3 fiber pairs which is referred to as the FLAG North Asia Loop. Out of these 3
fiber pairs, Telstra and PCCW holds one fiber each and the third fiber pair is jointly
owned by PCCW and Telstra.
RFS: 2001
Landing points: 9- Pusan (Korea, Rep.); Tong Fuk (Hong Kong); Toucheng (Taiwan);
Wada (Japan)
Figure 54: FLAG/REACH North Asia Loop submarine cable route-map and
Landing Stations
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4.49 FLAG Europe-Asia (FEA)
Overview: GLAG Europe- Asia is one of the oldest submarine cable network since
1997 and connects Asia region with Europe alongwith Middle East in the midway
network.
RFS: 1997
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4.50 Bay of Bengal Gateway (BBG)
RFS: 2015
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4.51 Asia Submarine-cable Express (ASE)/Cahaya Malaysia
Overview: The network became comprises of 6 fiber pairs of which StarHub, PDLT
and NTT owns 4 fiber pairs and Telekom Malaysia owns 2-fiber pairs. The network
became operational in August 2012.
RFS: 2012
Figure 57: ASE/ Cahaya Malaysia submarine cable route-map and Landing
Stations
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4.52 Asia Pacific Gateway (APG)
Overview: The network connects the major operational centres in the Asia-Pacific
region
Owners: NTT, China Telecom, China Unicom, Chunghwa Telecom, KT, Starhub, LG
Uplus, China Mobile, Viettel Corporation, Vietnam Telecom International, Global
Transit, Facebook, TIME dotcom
RFS: 2015
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4.53 SEACOM/Tata TGN-Eurasia
Overview: SEACOM is the overall owner of the East African portion and owns the 2
fiber pairs which provide interconnectivity between India and Egypt. Tata
Communications also owns 2 fiber pairs between Egypt to India. The fiber pairs
provide connectivity between Egypt and India, through with a branch to Jeddah
(Saudi Arabia).
RFS: 2009
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4.54 SEA-US
Overview: The SEA-US submarine network connects US with the South East Asian
countries.
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4.55 Russian Optical Trans-Arctic Cable System (ROTACS)
Overview: The SEA-US submarine network connects US with the South East Asian
countries.
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5. Key Updates in the Global Submarine Cable Market
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Vocus Communications of Australia plans to buy
additional capacity on the Southern Cross Cable
Vocus Network (SCCN) for $58.5 million. This would
Feb-15
Communications enable it to enhance its capacity by upto 10 times
and cater to the increasing demand for data of the
wholesale and enterprise sector clients.
Tele Greenland plans to further expand the
country submarine cable system to the north of
TELE Greenland,
Feb-15 the country by 2016. The operator plan to invest
Greenland Connect
~DKK20 million ($3.07 million) for the expansion of
the Greenland Connect Nord project.
Nigeria‟s National Broadband Council plans to
further increase the number of landing points in
Nigeria‟s National the country for submarine cable system. The
Feb-15
Broadband Council council plans to have landing points at Port
Harcourt, Ondo and Cross River, in addition to the
current landing point at Lagos in Nigeria.
The 3 leading telcos in China namely China
Unicom, China Telecom and China Mobile, signed
New Crossing-Pacific an agreement to jointly construct and fund a new
(NCP) Cable System, submarine cable systems named New Crossing-
China Unicom, China Pacific (NCP) Cable System. The cable is estimated
Telecom and China to be 13,618 kms in length with a transmission
Mobile capacity of 60Tbps and will help these companies
to cater to the increasing demand for internet
services in the country.
The Brazilian authorities plan to deploy a 7,784km
underwater fibre network in the Amazon basin.
Jan-15 Brazil Government
However, a feasibility study of the same is
underway.
The Government of Kenya and Sudan signed an
Government of agreement for the deployment of a fiber-optic link
Jan-15 Kenya, Government for interconnecting Eldoret in Kenya with Juba in
of Sudan Sudan. The length of this network is expected to
be 2,100 kms.
The Government of Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan,
Trans-Eurasian signed an agreement to deploy the trans-Caspian
Jan-15 Information Super Sea segment of Trans-Eurasian Information Super
Highway (TASIM) Highway (TASIM) for connecting Azerbaijan and
Kazakhstan.
Ciena was selected by The Trans-Pacific Express
(TPE) Cable Network consortium (comprising of
leading telcos such as China Telecom, NTT
Trans-Pacific
Communications, KT Corp, AT&T, China Telecom,
Express (TPE) Cable
Jan-15 Chungwha Telecom, China Unicom and Verizon
Network
Business) for providing solutions to increase the
consortium, Ciena
capacity of its submarine cable systems to cater to
the increasing demand from the Asia-Pacific
region.
Ciena, of Japan-US Ciena was selected to expand the capacity of
Jan-15
Cable Network Japan-US Cable Network‟s trans-Pacific submarine
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system, whereby Ciena will provide its multi-
terabit GeoMesh submarine system and WaveLogic
coherent optical processors.
Airtel Gabon launched a 187km submarine fiber-
Airtel Gabon and
optic cable network between Libreville and Port-
Jan-15 Africa Coast to
Gentil and it will leverage the capacity on the
Europe (ACE) cable
Africa Coast to Europe (ACE) cable,
Global Cloud Xchange (GCX) plans to offers 100
Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) connectivity to GTT
Global Cloud
Jan-15 Communications between US and Europe by
Xchange
leveraging its trans-Atlantic FA-1 North and FA-1
South cables.
HGC deployed its MetroLambda-X 100G fibre-optic
Hutchison Global
service, for providing capability to provide
Jan-15 Communications
connectivity between a submarine cable landing
(HGC)
and data center for a US based carrier.
PowerTel Communications, an ISP based in
Zimbabwe has established and started operating a
Jan-15 PowerTel, SEACOM
fiber connection to SEACOM submarine cable
system.
On 23 December Australia‟s Telstra formally
unveiled a $697 million takeover for Asian
Dec-14 Tesltra, Pacnet
submarine cable giant Pacnet, with the deal
expected to completed by mid-2015.
Spark (formerly Telecom New Zealand), Telstra
Spark (formerly
and Vodafone plans to partner to build a and
Telecom New
Dec-14 deploy Tasman Global Access Cable worth $70
Zealand), Telstra,
million. The cable will be deployed by Alcatel-
Vodafone
Lucent and will be operational mid-2016 onwards.
Saudi Telecom Company (STC) completed the first
Saudi Telecom phase of upgrade to 100Gbps technology and
Company (STC), transmission capacity of 8Tbps for the 15,000km
Dec-14
Europe India Europe India Gateway (EIG) submarine cable
Gateway (EIG) system. The cable connects 12 countries between
India and the UK.
Huawei won a contract to deploy fibre-optic
network between Gabon and the Republic of
Huawei
Dec-14 Congo (Congo-Brazzaville). The network is being
Technologies
build up with an investment of $26 million and is
expected to functional by July 2016.
Rostelecom plans to deploy Kamchatka-Sakhalin-
Magadan underwater fibre-optic link in Q2-2015.
inthe second quarter of 2015, representatives of
the telco‟s Far East Federal District branch have
informed Interfax. The company has already
Dec-14 Rostelecom completed surveys and preparatory work on the
coast of the Sea of Okhotsk in Kamchatka.
Kamchatka Territory is now one of the few Russian
regions where data transmission services are
provided only with satellite communications
channels. The 1,855km cable will have a capacity
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of 8Tbps and is scheduled to be put into operation
in June 2016.
Alcatel-Lucent partnered with Cinia Group
(previously known as Corenet) to build an
undersea cable system (named Sea Lion), to offer
Dec-14 Alcatel-Lucent direct linkage between Nordic region and
continental Europe. The network is expected to be
more than 1,100km and will have a transmission
speed of 100Gbps and will be functional by 2016.
KVH (previously KVH Telecom) deployed a new
backhaul service in Japan to connect the Shima
Cable Landing Station (Shima City, Mie Prefecture)
with Tokyo and Osaka by leveraging KVH‟s
Dec-14 KVH Co
Ethernet backbone network. This service will
further add to the existing portfolio of backhaul
services of KVH and offer transmission capacity of
10Gbps or 100 Gbps.
Grupo GTD, the telecom operator based in Chile
activated the second section of its domestic
submarine cable link, between Coyhaique and
Nov-14 Grupo GTD Puerto Montt, which was deployed by NSW. The
total length of the cable which has been
completed in two phases is ~400km and has been
built with a cost of ~15 million.
China Unicom completed the deployment of
1,500km fibre-optic link, at an estimated cost of $
500 million, to provide connectivity between the
Nov-14 China Unicom province of Yunnan in China, with NgweSaung
Beach in the Irrawaddy Delta of Myanmar. It would
further also connect to the SEA-ME-WE 5 cable,
which is expected to start operations in 2016.
NEC was selected by Angola Cables to build South
Nov-14 NEC, Angola Cables Atlantic Cable System (SACS) between Angola and
Brazil.
The Malaysian Communications and Multimedia
Malaysian
Commission (MCMC) plans to offer a tender worth
Communications and
Nov-14 $239.5 million (MYR800 million) for a undersea
Multimedia
cable system to connect Peninsular Malaysia with
Commission
East Malaysia.
Emerald Networks was granted a cable landing
Nov-14 Emerald Networks licence for its submarine cable network (Emerald
Express Cable Network) by FCC.
Solomons Oceanic Cable Company (SOCC) plans to
Solomons Oceanic have its inter-island submarine cable network to
Nov-14
Cable Company be operational by March 2015, which is being built
and has been valued at ~$70 million.
Consortium of telecom operators which includes
New Cross Pacific
KT Corporation, Chunghwa Telecom plans to
(NCP), KT
Nov-14 deploy a new submarine cable system named New
Corporation,
Cross Pacific (NCP), to provide direct connectivity
Chunghwa Telecom
between China, South Korea and Japan. The total
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length of the cable is estimated to be 14,000 kms
with a transmission capacity of 80Tbps and is
expected to be completed in the later half of
2017.
Retelit plans to invest $88.5 million (€88.5 million)
in 2-pahses of $58 million and $12 million for the
Nov-14 Retelit
Asia-Africa-Europe-1 (AAE-1) submarine cable
system.
Angola Cables, Signed a mutual IP Transit agreement to further
TeliaSonera strengthen the regional connectivity for the TSIC‟s
Nov-14
International Carrier customer by leveraging Angola Cables‟ submarine
(TSIC) cable assets.
Google plans to partner with a consortium
comprising of Angola Cables, Algar Telecom and
telcoANTEL for the undersea cable having 6-fiber
Nov-14 Google
pairs with 64Tbps capacity. The cable will
interlink Brazil and USA when it becomes
operational in 2016.
Angola Cables, Angola Cables plans to interlink its South Atlantic
Google, South Cable System (SACS) with the cable system
Nov-14
Atlantic Cable connecting US & Brazil, which will enable it to
System (SACS) connect Brazil with Africa by the end of 2016.
Cienna was selected by the Asia America Gateway
(AAG) consortium for the upgradation of its
20,000km transpacific submarine cable network
Cienna, Asia
with a capacity of 100Gbps. The sub marine cable
Nov-14 America Gateway
system will provide connectivity amongst the
(AAG)
countries which includes Brunei, Hong Kong,
Malaysia, Hawaii, Vietnam, Philippines, Guam and
Singapore and the US coast.
NEC was selected by the Asia-Africa-Europe 1
(AAE-1) submarine cable as a supplier for its S1H
segment of the cable network. The network is
expected to become operational in the year 2016
Nov-14 NEC, AAE-1
and will provide interconnectivity across the
countries which includes Qatar, India, Singapore,
Malaysia, Hong Kong, UAE, Djibouti, Yemen,
Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Vietnam, Thailand etc.
Alcatel Lucent plans to launch its new company
Nov-14 Alcatel Lucent Alcatel-Lucent Submarine Networks through an IPO
in the first half of the year 2015.
Ooredoo Tunisia and Orange Tunisia partnered to
make Didon, the first private subsea system of
Orange Tunisia, Tunisia operational. The network has a length of
Sep-14
Ooredoo Tunisia 170kms and is expected to offer capacity of
8TBps. Alcatel-Lucent was the vendor for
supplying infrastructure requirements.
Retelit of Italy became a member of the Asia
Retelit, Asia Africa Africa Europe 1 (AAE-1) submarine cable
Sep-14
Europe 1 (AAE-1) consortium and plans to build a landing station in
Bari.
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The submarine optical fiber Seabras-1 which is
Seabras-1, Seaborn owned by Seaborn Networks and Alcatel-Lucent
Sep-14 Networks, Alcatel- became operational and provide connectivity
Lucent between Brazil and United States, will become
operational in 2016.
Hawaiian Telcom was selected as the landing
partner by the Hawaiki Cable in Hawaii, whereby
Hawaiian Telcom,
Sep-14 Hawaiian Telcom will be responsible for providing
Hawaiki Cable
and securing relevant permissions in Hawaii for
Hawaiki Cable.
Emtel, SFR Mayotte and Comores Cables together
Emtel, SFR Mayotte, signed a MoU to form a consortium and deploy a
Sep-14
Comores Cables undersea link of length 350 kms with an estimated
cost of ~$20.9million.
Pacific Wave upgraded its US West Coast peering
Sep-14 Pacific Wave exchange, by adding another 40Gbps connection to
Australia and New Zealand.
Leading telecom operators which included Globe
Telecom, Telekomunikasi Indonesia International
(Telin), Hawaiian Telcom, RAMTelecom
International (RTI), Teleguam Holdings
(GTA), Telkom USA and GTI Corporation – together
Southeast Asia-
formed a consortium for the deployment of a
Aug-14 United States (SEA-
15,000kms submarine cable network named
US)
Southeast Asia-United States (SEA-US). The
consortium also selected NEX as the system
supplier for the network to be deployed with
transmission capacity of 100Gbps and is expected
to be operational by the end of 2016.
Omantel plans to invest $31 million for the landing
Aug-14 Omantel station construction of Asia-Africa-Europe (AAE-1)
submarine cable system in France.
Tata Communications partnered with Roke Telkom
for the deployment of a new point of presence
Roke Telkom, Tata
Aug-14 (PoP) at Kampala, which would enable Tata
Communications
Communications to expand its presence in the
emerging markets.
Cable & Wireless Communications (LIME) plans to
leverage its submarine cable network, to provide
Cable & Wireless
connectivity to the business customers using its
Aug-14 Communications
“LIME Global Connect” data service, thereby
(LIME)
further strengthening it positioning amongst the
business customers.
Global Cloud Xchange (formerly known as Reliance
Globalcom) plans to deploy a submarine cable
between India and Singapore. The cable will be
Global Cloud
four-fiber pair sytem with transmission capacity of
Jul-14 Xchange (Reliance
100Gps and is expected to be operational by mid
Globalcom)
2016.
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The 4,600 km Hibernia Express submarine cable
Hibernia
system became operational and has transmission
Jul-14 Express submarine
capacity of 100Gbps. The six-fiber-pair submarine
cable system
cable will span across New York and London.
IslaLink deployed the Infinera DTN-X packet
optical transport across its network and will
Jul-14 IslaLink, Infinera
enable IslaLink to further enhance its capabilities
to manage costs and differentiate its services.
Google plans to invest in a trans-Pacific submarine
China Telecom
cable system, which would provide it with a
Global, China Mobile
transmission capacity of 60Tbps. The network
International, KDDI,
Jun-14 named “FASTER” will also have other telcos like
Global Transit,
China Telecom Global, China Mobile International,
SingTel, Google,
KDDI, Global Transit and SingTel. NEC was
NEC
selected as the system supplier for the network.
British Telecom initiated the deployment of initial
batch of 20 submarine fibre optic cables in
Jun-14 British Telecom Scotland as a part of its Digital Scotland initiative,
which is estimated to cost around $448.9 million
(£264 million).
Ciena Corporation was selected to provide its
Ciena, TeliaSonera converged packet optical platform (5400 series
Jun-14 International Carrier switching platform from Ciena) to enable TSIC to
(TSIC) build up a scalable and flexible Optical Transport
Network (OTN)-based network.
Xtera Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) of USA
Communications, US selected Xtera Communications for the
Jun-14 Defense Information deployment of a new undersea fiber optic cable
Systems Agency system, for its “Southern Command” area.
(DISA)
Vocus Vocus Communications of Australia signed an
Communications, agreement with Telecom New Zealand to acquire
Jun-14 Telecom New its 10% stake in the Sea-Me-We 3 cable system for
Zealand, SEA-ME- $2.3 million.
WE-3
Telkom Indonesia selected ZTE for the upgradation
Telkom Indonesia, of its Java backbone to further upgrade the
Jun-14
ZTE transmission capacity of the network from 10Gbps
to 100 Gbps.
Dialog Axiata. Dialog Axiata of Sri Lanka signed an agreement
Jun-14 the Bay of Bengal with the Bay of Bengal Gateway (BBG) to for
Gateway (BBG) landing the cable system in the country.
Government of India plans to roll out new
submarine fiber-optic cable for connecting its
Jun-14 Government of India mainland with Andaman and Nicobar Islands to
improve the connectivity between the two through
a 1,200km cable length.
Rostelecom, Tehkompaniya Huawei (a subsidiary Huawei
May-14 Tehkompaniya Technologies) was selected by Rostelecom to
Huawei deploy a submarine cable to link 3 regions of
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Russia namely Magadan, Sakhalin and Kamchatka
regions in Russia. The deployment of network is
estimated to cost ~87 million (RUB 3 billion) and
will be a 4 fiber optic cable with a transmission
capacity of upto 8 Tbps. The cable network in
expected to be functional by mid- 2015.
SubPartners plans to build a submarine cable
system named APX-Central, to connect the major
centers of Melbourne, Hobart and Adelaide in
May-14 SubPartners Australia. The network is expected to stretch
~5,300km and support a transmission capacity of
~32Tbps is expected to be operational in the later
half of 2016.
The Philippines based telecom operator
PLDT plans to invest an additional amount of $22.9
May-14 PLDT million (PHP 1billion) to further extend the length
of its new fiber cable from 100,000km by an
additional 15,000 kms by end of 2014.
IT Telecom was selected by Tele-Post Greenland
to work out on the possibility of deploying a new
IT Telecom, Tele-
May-14 subsea cable for interconnecting submarine cable
Post Greenland
systems between Nuuk, Maniitsoq, Sisimiut,
Aasiaat and Qasigiannguit.
Xtera Communications was selected for contract
Xtera
worth $31 million by the US Department of
Communications, US
May-14 Defence to deploy a submarine fibre-optic cable to
Department of
interconnect its Navy base located at Guantanamo
Defence
and South Florida.
Plans to connect to the SEACOM pan African
Level 3
May-14 IP/MPLS network by deploying content delivery
Communications
nodes in its data centre facilities located in Kenya.
Plans to deploy a fiber optic cable between the
Okinawa Prefecture country‟s Miyako Islands and Yaeyama islands,
May-14
Government (OPG) with the length of fiber optic cable being 915km
and is expected to be deployed by August 2016.
Ciena partnered with Japan-US Cable Network to
provide transmission capacity of 200Gbps over the
Apr-14 Ciena
submarine cable network spanning 630kms in the
US West coast.
Tata Communications and Bahrain Internet
Tata Exchange (BIX) signed an agreement for the
Communications, development of sub-sea fiber optic cable. It will
Apr-14
Bahrain Internet provide connectivity between Bahrain and other
Exchange (BIX) Gulf countries with India by leveraging Tata‟s
Global Network (TGN).
Global Cloud Xchange (formerly known as Reliance
Globalcom) plans to deploy a submarine cable
Global Cloud network of length of ~8,300 km between Japan
Apr-14
Xchange and USA. The cable system is estimated to have a
transmission capacity of 100x100Gbps per fiber
and is expected to be operational by 2015.
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Telkom Indonesia partnered with Huawei Marine
Telkom Indonesia,
Networks, to upgrade the PT Telkom 3rd
Mar-14 Huawei Marine
Route submarine cable system with 100Gbps
Networks
technology.
Bharti Airtel upgraded its 3,200kms long
Mar-14 Bharti Airtel, i2i i2i submarine network between Indian and
Singapore by deploying solutions from Ciena Corp.
Level 3 Communications plans to deploy a
submarine cable to provide interconnectivity
Level 3
Mar-14 between its international undersea network and
Communications
Pacific coast of Colombia, and will reduce the
dependency of Colombia on its Caribbean coast.
South East Asia-Middle East-Western Europe 5
(SEA-ME-WE 5) selected Alcatel-Lucent and NEC
for the construction of the network. NEXC was
selected to construct the network upto Tokyo,
Mar-14 SEA-ME-WE-5 whereas Alcatel-Lucent was select to construct
the network between France and Sri Lanka. The
network which has a transmission capacity of upto
100Gbps and has a length of ~20,000 kms is
expected to be operational by 2016.
Alcatel-Lucent was selected by Libyan
International Telecommunication Company
Libyan International
(LITC) to deploy a 1,000km undersea cable system
Telecommunication
Feb-14 to connect Tripoli with Benghazi. The cable
Company (LITC),
system is expected to have a transmission capacity
Alcatel-Lucent
of more than 10Tbps and is expected to be
operational by mid-2015.
Telsur, a telco based in Chile plans to invest $10
million to deploy a submarine cable of length
Feb-14 Telsur
440km, to connect Quellon with Puerto
Chacabuco, in the country.
A consortium of leading 17 global telcos plans to
deploy a 25,000km submarine cable system named
Asia Africa Europe-1
Asia Africa Europe-1 (AAE-1) and will span across
Jan-14 (AAE-1) cable
the select countries across South East Asia, Africa
network
and Europe. The submarine cable network is
expected to be operational by 2016.
Alcatel-Lucent was selected to upgrade the
10,000km long EASSy submarine with 100G
Jan-14 Alcatel-Lucent technology. The upgrade will enable the cable
system which links Sudan and South Africa to have
a data transmission capacity of 10Tbps.
Viatel partnered with Huawei Marine Networks to
Viatel, Huawei complete the deployment of Flores-Corvo
Jan-14
Marine Networks Submarine Cable System, which has a length of
~685km.
Palau Telecoms, Xtera Communications was selected by Palau
Jan-14
Xtera Telecoms for supplying and installation of
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Communications equipment‟s which will facilitate in connecting
Palau to Guam.
Telebras of Brazil plans to establish a joint
venture with IslaLink Submarine Cables of Japan,
Telebras, IslaLink to deploy and operate an undersea cable to
Jan-14
Submarine Cables connect Brazil and Europe. The project is
estimated to cost $185 million and is estimated to
be completed after 18 months.
Ocean Networks (which owns the South America
Pacific Link (SAPL) submarine cable system),
Ocean Networks, selected Xtera for the supply and installation of its
Jan-14
Xtera SAPL submarine cable system, which is expected
to be operational in 2016 and has a length of
~9,400 kms.
Infinera was selected by the consortium of telcos
(Softbank, Telstra, NTT, AT&T,Verizon and
Softbank) owning Australia Japan Cable (AJC)
Jan-14 Infinera consortium, to deploy its Infinera‟s DTN-X packet
optical transport networking platform across the
submarine cable network which spans across
12,700km and connects Australia and Japan.
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6. Major Submarine Cable Vendors
6.1 Fujitsu
Company Overview
The company provides customers globally with its products which includes
electronic components, air conditioners, computers, bar code scanners etc.
Fujitsu's computer product offering includes servers, computers and peripherals
and storage systems. One of the top IT services firms in the world, it provides
consulting, infrastructure management, and systems integration services. Other
includes a wide portfolio of telecommunications transmission equipment,
semiconductors, software and consumer electronics.
Fujitsu generates most of its revenues in Japan, but its growth strategy includes
strengthening its international operations, with a goal of increasing the percentage
of sales outside Japan to 40%. Fujitsu's efforts to strengthen its North American
operations have included consolidating a number of its subsidiaries in the region. In
2009 the company combined three of its US-based subsidiaries namely Fujitsu
Consulting, Fujitsu Computer Systems and Fujitsu Transaction Solutions, to form
Fujitsu America.
Fuji Tsushinki Manufacturing Corporation was the former name of Fujitsu. The
name was changed to Fujitsu Limited in the year 1967. The company is
headquartered in Tokyo, Japan and was founded in the year 1935.
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Table 14: Fujitsu- Key Information
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Figure 62: Business Segments of Fujitsu
Source: Fujitsu
Technology Solutions
The Technology Solutions offerings from Fujitsu further consist of two sub-
components namely Services and System Platforms.
Services
System Platforms
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Ubiquitous Solutions
Fujitsu offers desktop PCs, 2-way notebook PC and Windows 8 tablets as its
range of offerings under PC. Mobile Phones offerings from Fujitsu consist of its
Raku-Raku Phone series and smartphones.
As a part of its Mobilewears offerings, Fujitsu offers connectivity products such
as mobile communication equipment, automotive electronics and Car audio and
navigation systems.
Device Solutions
LSI Device offerings include LSI devices found in products like mobile phones,
servers, automobiles and home appliances.
Its offering under Electronic component includes Semiconductor packages,
structural components (like relays, connectors etc.), printed circuit boards,
optical transceiver modules, batteries etc.
Fujitsu‟s offerings for the submarine network solution include planning & designing
installation, commissioning and project management services for the submarine
network solutions deployment and installation. Fujitsu has the experience of
installing more than 70 submarine networks globally and supplies its Optical
Submarine Repeater series for the global submarine cable system deployments.
The company has deployed more than 2,500 repeaters globally.
Fujitsu supplies a range of network elements for Repeatered Submarine System and
WDM Capacity Upgrade System.
Its offering for Repeatered Submarine System includes Submarine Line Terminal
Equipment, System Supervisory Equipment, Power Feeding Equipment, Branching
Unit, Repeater, Tilt Equalizer, Shape Equalizer, Network Management System, SDH
interconnection Equipment.
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Figure 63: Fujitsu Repeatered Submarine System
Source: Fujitsu
Fujitsu reports its revenues under 4-major geographies namely Japan, EMEA, APAC
& China and The Americas, of which Japan is the largest revenue contributing
geography.
The consolidated Net sales for Fujitsu invcreased by 8.7% over the period FY2013-
14 to reach ¥4,762.4 billion (excluding the elimination ) driven by improved
performance of all its services segments across all the geographies.
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Figure 64: Fujitsu- Revenue across Geographies
Revenues across Japan increased by 4.8% over the period FY2013-14 to reach
¥3,465.1 billion (before elimination) on account of increase in the revenues from
its technology solution and devices solution offerings, despite decline in the
decline in revenues of its Ubiquitous Solutions. PCs and mobile phones sales
declined due to intensifying competition.
Fujitsu‟s revenues outside Japan (its overseas revenues) increased by 22.1% over
the period FY2013-14 to reach ¥1,865.4 billion (excluding elimination). This was
driven by increased in sales across all the major reported geography segments.
The revenues across APAC and China increased by 15.7% over the same period to
reach ¥421.9 billion (before elimination), whereas the revenues EMEA and
Americas region also witnessed a growth of 19.4% and 41.0% over the same
period.EMEA revenues increased by ¥152.1 billion over the period FY2013-14 to
reach ¥973.3 billion, whereas from the Americas region increased by 41.0% (¥112.3
billion) over the period FY2013-14.
Japan was the largest contributor of the total net sales for Fujitsu, with 65.0 of the
total revenues in FY2014.
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Figure 65: Fujitsu- Revenue across Geographies, 2012-2014
(in billion ¥)
Fujitsu‟s revenues from across all its revenue reporting regions has witnessed a
upwards trends in the financial year 2014. The revenue growth for the period 2013-
14 was the highest for the Americas region.
The Technology solution business segment has been the largest contributing
business segment to Fujitsu‟s revenues over the last 3 financial years (FY2012,
FY2013 and FY2014). It contributed 65.3% of the total revenues of Fujitsu in
FY2014.
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Figure 67: Fujitsu- Revenues by Services, 2012-2014
(in billion ¥)
The revenues from Services sub-segment increased by 10.1% over the period
FY2013-14 to reach ¥2,627.2 billion (before eliminations). Revenues from Japan
and Overseas geography was ¥1,600.5 billion (growth of 5.5% over FY2013-14)
and ¥ 1,026.6 billion (growth of 17.9% over FY2013-14.
− The revenues from Solutions/SI increased by 10.0 over the period FY2013-14
to reach ¥920.4 billion. Revenues from Infrastructure services increased by
10.1% over FY2013-14 to reach ¥1,706.7 billion, driven by steady growth of
outsourcing services, improved demand related for network services, from
the telecommunications carriers to sustain the increased volumes of
communications traffic.
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The system platform sub-segment which comprises of System Products and
Network Products registered a growth of 10.9% over FY2013-14 to reach ¥615.7
billion (before elimination). This was mainly due to the increase 19.9 in
Overseas revenues over FY2013-14 to reach ¥162.0 billion, coupled with a 8.0%
increase in revenues from Japan which was ¥453.7 billion for FY2014.
Ubiquitous solutions revenues inceased by just 3.2% over the period FY2013-14, to
reach ¥1,125.4 billion (before elimination), due to decline in revenues from both
Japan.
The Device Solutions Business segment comprises of two sub-segments namely LSI
Devices
Revenues from LSI devices increased by 11.0% over FY2013-14 to reach ¥321.6
billion, whereas the revenues from Electronic components sub-segments also
increased by 11.0% over the same period to reach ¥280.2 billion.
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Table 15: Fujitsu- Operational Highlights, 2012-2014
Some of the major contract wins by Fujitsu in the recent years has been mentioned
below:
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6.2 Huawei Marine Networks
Overview
The company has a manufacturing unit at Dongguan in China. It also has R&D
institutes at Beijing (China) and Chelmsford (United Kingdom)/
The offerings from Huawei Marine Networks is classified broadly under 3 categories
namely Solutions, Services and Products
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Solutions Offerings:
The solutions offerings from the company include building of a new cable systems
as well as up gradation of the existing cable system.
Network Upgrades: Huawei provides also upgradation services for the existing
network either deployed by it or deployed by other vendors as well. It offers
three variants of upgradation options namely, Overlay wavelength upgrade,
Full-SLTE replacement upgrade and upgradation on dark fibers.
Services Offering:
The services offered include Desktop Study, System Design, Route Survey,
Installation, Training and Maintenance services.
System Design: Based on the inputs from Desktop Study, the company provides
a detailed specification for the construction of the cable network which
includes cable type selection, fiber configuration, terminal equipment
configuration, network monitoring and management solutions etc.
Route Survey: It includes activities such as assessing the water depth, soil
conditions, submarine terrain for the submarine cable network deployment.
Installation: Huawei Marine helps the companies in the land installation as well
as marine installation of the cable networks.
Training: Huawei Marine also provides the customers with training solution on
technology as well as assisting them with deploying and operating the
submarine cable system operation.
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Maintenance: Huawei Marine provides 3-level technical support system for the
terrestrial terminal equipment and series maintenance options to the submarine
equipment.
Products Offerings:
Submarine Line Monitor (SLM): The SLM 1630 is a submarine line monitor
(SLM), which is used to monitor the working states of wet plant systems and is
also used to locate faults.
Repeater: The RPT 1660 repeater provides support for 2,4,6 fiber pairs and
offers a optical loop back facility to facilitate in performance monitoring and
fault location services.
Branching Unit: The BU 1650 branching unit (BU) offering from Huawei Marine
enables the fiber pairs to be route across to multiple destinations in the
submarine cable system.
Some of the major contract wins by Huawei Marine Networks in the recent years
has been mentioned below:
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6.3 TE Connectivity
Company Overview
The company sells its products directly to manufacurers and well as leverages third
party distributors for the sales of its products in across 150 countries.
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Table 18: TE Connectivity- Key Information
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Offerings (Solutions, Applications, products, Services)
Industrial Soutions: The solutions offered by the segment is targetted for the use
in sectors which includes industrial equipment; aerospace, defense, oil, and gas;
and energy sectors.
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Financial & Operational Highlights
The net sales for TE Connectivity invcreased by 4.8% over the period FY2013-14 to
reach $13.9 billion, driven by improved performance of ist Automotive and
Industrial equiments segment.
EMEA
32.0% 35.0% Asia
Americas
33.0%
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Figure 71: TE Connectivity- Revenue by Segments, 2012-2014
(in $ billion)
Net sales in industrial segment inceased by 10% over FY2013-14 to reach $3.3
billion, owing to improve in the market scenario in the Asia-Pacific and EMEA
region. Despite a decline in the revenues from Industrial Equipmet and Energy
segment, the revenue from Aerospace, Defense, Oil, and Gas segment increased.
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Net Sales from Network Solutions segment dclined by 6.1% to reach $2.9 billion,
owing to the weaking to certain foreign currencies which impacted its net sales.
However, its organic net sales for the Telecom networks increased by 2.6%
over FY2013-14 driven by increase in the fiber business in the EMEA region.
Organic net sales of its data communication segment also declined by 5.5%
in FY 2014, owing to weak market demand and its exit from certain product
lines.
The Enterprise Network witnessed an organic net sales inceasement of 4.2%
over FY2013-14, driven by the growth n datacenter in North America and
India.
Reduced project volume impacted its Subsea Communication segment,
where its witness its net organic sales decline by 28.7%.
Revenues of its Consumer solutions segment also declined by 5.9% over FY2013-
14 to reach $1.6 billion, owing to decline in its Consumer devices segment.
Consumer devices segment witness a net organic sales decline of 5.4% over
FY2013-14, due to decline in mobile phone and personal computer sales,
which was partially offset by incarease in the tablet sales.
Appliances segment witnessed a net organic sales increment of 6.3% over
FY2013-14, due to increase in demand from the Asia-Pacific region
(primarily) and also from the Americas region.
Automotive and Industrial sector were the largest revenue contributing sectors in
FY 2014, with Automotive sector and Industrial sector contrbuting 44% and 10% of
the total revenues in FY2014.
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Figure 72: TE Connectivity- Revenue by Industry Verticals
(100%=$3.9 billion)
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6.4 NSW
Overview
The company was founded in the year 1889 and is headquartered at Nordenham, in
Germany. NSW is a wholly owned subsidiary of General Cable Corporation group of
companies since 2007.
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Cable offerings from NSW includes Telecommunications Cable, Power Cables,
Offshore Cables, Landcable and other services
Plastic Products includes Material Protection and Packaging, Leaf Guard, Filter
Technique, Environmental Technology and Power Transmission and Conveying
solutions
Leaf Guard: It is a mesh tube made of recyclable polyethylene slit along its
length and is used for cleaning clogged surfaces.
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6.5 ZTT International Ltd
Overview:
ZTT Group offers a portfolio of products for the communication industry and has
products offerings for both Electrical Power and Communication industry, and owns
more than 30 subsidiaries.
The company has offices in more than 40 countries globally including Canada,
America, Australia, Thailand, Indonesia and India. It also has factories in Brazil,
India and Uzbekistan. The company also supplies products to more than 106
countries globally.
Some of the leading customers of the company includes China Netcom, China
Mobile,China Telecom, China Railway Telecom, China Unicom.
ZTT International Ltd offers a portfolio of products for Power system, Telecom
System, Industry, New Energy, Alloy, Machine Manufacturing and Submarine System
Source: ZTT
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Power System: ZTT International‟s Power System offering includes Power
Cable (Low voltage, Medium voltage, High voltage), fittings, OPGW,
conductors and Aluminum-Clad Steel Wire.
New Energy: Products offered for New Energy offering includes Lithium Ion
Battery, Solar Cell Backsheet, Econova Homes and Photovoltaic technology
cells.
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6.6 Nexans
Company Overview
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Offerings (Solutions, Applications, products, Services)
The services offerings from Nexans is organized under 3 main categories namely,
Energy, Electrical Wires and Telecom.
Telecom: The telecom offerings from Nexans includes Data Transmission cables,
Telecom interconnect components and Telecom network cables.
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Financial & Operational Highlights
Nexans reports its revenues under 4 geographies namely France, Germany, Norway
and others. It also organizes its reporting under 4 divisions namely Transmisson,
Distribution & Operators; Industry; Distributors & installers and Others.
The total revenues decreased by 4.6% over FY2013-14 to reach €6,403 million
owing to decline in revenues from France and other geographies. Despite the
decline in revenuesover the past 3 years, France still remains the largest revenue
contrbuting geography.
14.3% France
Germany
12.1% Norway
Other
62.7% 10.8%
Revenues from France, decreased by 1.2% over the period FY2013-14 to reach €918
million, whereas from Norway is declined by 0.9% over FY2013-14 to reach €693
million. Revenues from Germany increased by 3.3% to reach €776 million over the
same period. The revenues from other geographies also decreased by 7.3% to reach
€4,016 million owing to volality existing in the political as well as economic
conditions existing in different countries. Some of the key factors which led to the
decline in revenues from other geographies include political tensions prevailing in
Russia & Middle East, decline in market conditions for cable market in South
America and Australia.
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Figure 77: Nexans- Revenue across Geographies, 2012-2014
(in billion Euros)
36.3% Industry
28.3%
Distributors & installers
23.2% Others
The Transmission, Distribution & Operators segments contributed 36.3% of the total
revenues in FY2014.
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Figure 79: Nexans- Revenues by Segments, 2012-2014
(in million €)
Revenue from all the segments continue to witness a declining trend. Transmission,
Distribution & Operators still continues to be the largest revenue contrbuting
segment for the past 3 years- and the revenues from the same also continues to
decline.
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Key Contract wins
Some of the major contract wins by Nexans in the recent years has been mentioned
below:
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6.7 OCC Corporation
Overview
Founded in the year 1948, OCC Corporation (Ocean Cable & Communications
Corporation) is involved in the manufacturing and marketing of submarine optical
fiber and other related products.
Headquartered in Japan, the company provides its products to some of the leading
companies in Japan which includes NTT Group, KOKUSAI CABLE SHIP CO.,LTD, KDDI
Corporation, Sumitomo Electric Industries, NEC Group, East Japan Railway
Company, West Japan Railway Company etc.
The main product offerings from OCC is offered under 3 broad categories namely
Optical fiber cable and accessories, Metal Communication Cable and Coaxial Cable.
Optical fiber cable and accessories includes Optical Submarine Cable, M-PAC
(Metal Packed armored Cable) and Portable M-PAC.
− The optical submarine cable offering includes SC300 and SC500 cable.
Metal Communication Cable includes Conductors, Winding Wire and
Wirerods.
Coaxial Cable includes Coaxial cable for CATV and High-frequency Coaxial
cable
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Key Contract Wins
Some of the major customers of OCC Corporation includes NTT Group, KOKUSAI
CABLE SHIP CO., KDDI Corporation, Sumitomo Electric Industries, NEC Group, East
Japan Railway Company, West Japan Railway Company, Odakyu Electric Railway,
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Oki Electric Industry Co, Kyushu Electric Power Co.,
Tokyo Electric Power Company and Kansai Electric Power Co.
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6.8 NEC
Company Overview
The company is headquartered in Japan and reported net sales of ¥3,043.1 billion
in the financial year 2014.
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6.7.1. Offerings (Solutions, Applications, products, Services)
The offering for Submarine Systems is offered under its Networking Products
portfolio.
The services offered under its Submarine Systems offering includes Desktop studies
for new builds and cable upgrades, System design, Marine surveys, Permitting,
Installation and commissioning of wet and dry plant, 2 nd and 3rd line support
functions, Spares management, Ongoing operations management and Full turnkey
solutions.
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Financial & Operational Highlights
NEC Fujitsu organizes itself under 5 major business segments namely Public
Business,Enterprise Business, Telecom Carrier Business, System Plaftorm Business,
Others.
The total net sales declined by 0.9% over the period FY2013-14 to reach ¥3,043.1
billion, due to decline in revenues from others business segments, which offset the
reveneu growth from other segments.
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Figure 83: NEC- Revenue across Geographies,2012-2014
(in million ¥)
Japan continues to be the major revenue contributing segment and accounted for
81.3% of the total revenues in FY2014.
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6.9 Alcatel-Lucent
Company Overview
Founded in the year 1898, the company is headquartered in France and reporrted a
revenue of €13,178 million in FY2014.
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Offerings (Solutions, Applications, products, Services)
Alcatel- Lucent reports its revenues under three reportable segments namely
Access, Core Networking and others. Core Networking Solutions offerings includes
IP Routing, IP Transport and IP Platforms. Access segment offering includes
Wireless, Fixed Access, Licensing and Managed Services
Its wet plant component offering includes Cables, Repeaters and Branching Units.
Its Dry plant component includes Power Feeding units, Submarine Line terminals
and SDH and OTN Interconnection Equipments.
The company leverages its fleet of 7 vessels for the deployment of new submarine
cable system and maintainance of existing cable systems
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Financial & Operational Highlights
Alcatel- Lucent reports its revenues under three reportable segments namely
Access, Core Networking and others.
It further reports its revenues under 8 major geographical segments namely USA,
China, France, Other Western Europe, Rest of Europe, Other Asia-Pacific, Other
Americas andbRest of world
The total revenue for Alcatel-Lucent declined by 4.6% over the period FY2013-14,
due to decline in revenues for all the 3 reportable segments. The revenues also
witnesssed a declining trend over the same period for all the regions except for the
APAC region (comprising of China and Other Asia-Pacific region) and Rest of the
World geography.
Revenues from US decreased owing to decline in revenues from legacy optical and
Fixed Access services, which offset the increment in revenues from LTE services.
Revenues from China increased by 22.3% to reach €1,342 million over the period
FY2013-14, owing to increased deployment of LTE by telcos in the country.
Revenues from within Europe by 3% in France, 9% in Other Western Europe and 22%
in Rest of Europe.
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Figure 86: Alcatel-Lucent- Revenue across Geographies, 2012-2014
(in million Euros)
USA continues to be the largest revenue contributing for the past 3 years and
contributed 41.6% of the total revenues in FY2014 .
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The revenue from Core Networking services decreased by 3.0% over the period
FY2013-14 to reach €5,966 million, owing to the decline in revenues of IP Transport
division and IP Platforms division, which offset the increase in the revenues of IP
Routing division. IP Routing division revenues increased by 5.1% to reach €2,368
million in 2014, whereas revenues of IP Transport division and IP Platforms division
declined by 0.2% and 16.5% respectively during the same period to reach €2,114
million and €1,484 million.
Revenues from Access Services declined by €290 million to reach €5,966 million
over the period FY2013-14, due to the decline in revenues from its Fixed Access
division, Managed Services division and Licensing division, despite an increase in
the revenues from the Wireless Access division. Revenues of Wireless Access
division increased by 3.9% over the period FY2013-14 to reach €4,685 million.
However, the revenues of Fixed Access division, Managed Services division and
Licensing division declined by 1.0%, Managed Services division by 53.4% and
Licensing division by 28.6% to reach €2,048 million, €369 million and €55 million
respectively, in the year 2014.
Revenues from the Other segments (sold off in early 2014) which comprised of its
Government business was €41 million in 2014.
Access services comprising of its Fixed Access, Managed Services, Licensing services
and Wireless Access services continue to be the largest revenue contrbutings
segment for the past 3-years.
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Table 27: Alcatel-Lucent- Operational Highlights
Note: All Financial figures in mn Euros for the Financial Year ending 31 st December
Some of the major contract wins by Fujitsu in the recent years has been mentioned
below:
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