Huawei Marine Networks has joined hands with Viatel, Portugal’s telecom engineering network supplier, to complete the 685 kilometer cable Flores-Corvo Submarine Cable System construction.
The new cable system will be featuring enhanced Raman technology and advanced Submarine Line Terminal Equipment of OptiX BWS 1600S, said Huawei in a statement.
The cable network will provide communications to service local demand and become an integral part of Viatel’s network that includes over 100 points-of-presence (PoPs) based in 35 key cities.
The completed Flores-Corvo Submarine Cable System now enables all nine islands of the Archipelago of the Azores to be interconnected, with backbone connectivity to European, African and cross-Atlantic submarine cables.
The submarine cable is designed with a 0.96 Terabit per second capacity to provide speeds of 10 Gigabit per second (Gbps) and has the capacity to be upgraded to 100 Gbps in the future. Having previously relied on basic satellite communications, the new cable system will help increase Corvo and Flores’ attractiveness as a tourist destination and better support the needs of its inhabitants.
Huawei Marine said the other submarine cable system projects in 2013 include connecting the remote islands of Boracay and Palawan in the Philippines, and its Silphium solution which connects Darnah in Libya with Chania in Greece.
