Historical Cable Locating (Part 3) As published in the September Issue of SubTel Forum Magazine By Philip Pilgrim September 29, 2022 Introduction This is the third and final article is a series that offers encouragement and guidance for you to spend time at a coastline and hunt down a submarine cable. In this issue, my good [...]
A STEP-CHANGE IN CAPABILITY: An Overview of Parkburn’s Contributions to the Cable Lay Market As published in the September Issue of SubTel Forum Magazine By Rob Cash September 28, 2022 Parkburn Precision Handling Systems Limited is a privately owned, engineering company that specialises in the design, manufacture, installation, and service of product handling systems. The Parkburn [...]
Rise of Hyperscalers Places Greater Importance of Testing Subsea Optical Cables As published in the September Issue of SubTel Forum Magazine By Shu Zhuang September 27, 2022 At last count, there are an estimated 436 submarine cables stretching more than 1.3 million kilometers around the globe, according to TeleGeography. Those cable are essential to how we [...]
Next Generation Transponder Technology to Align with Subsea SDM Cables As published in the September Issue of SubTel Forum Magazine By Sushin Suresan September 27, 2022 Undersea cables dramatically increase the reach of the internet by connecting new populations to provide them the economic benefits of high-speed connectivity. New applications driving large amounts of data transfer [...]
VC and Private Equity Expect Sub-Saharan African Economic Boost As published in the September Issue of SubTel Forum Magazine By Phil Anderson September 26, 2022 Nearly three-quarters expect GDP growth of 4%-plus this year and two out of five predict 4.5%-plus next year, beating IMF forecast, and internet connectivity is extremely important for driving growth, say [...]
Using Existing Submarine Cables as a Tsunami Warning Network As published in the September Issue of SubTel Forum Magazine By Geoff Bennett September 26, 2022 A 2015 United Nations report estimated that every year, an average of 60,000 people and $4 billion USD in assets are exposed to the global tsunami hazard, which can be triggered [...]
Distributed Fibre Optic Sensing for CO2 Injection Monitoring Reprinted with kind permission from Digital Energy Journal and shared in the September Issue of SubTel Forum Magazine September 23, 2022 Fibre optic cable-based sensing can be used for multiple areas of CO2 storage monitoring, including monitoring CO2 injection into the well, monitoring where the CO2 plume goes, induced [...]
Scope 3 Emissions Challenges Reprinted with kind permission from Digital Energy Journal in the September Issue of SubTel Forum Magazine By Ian Thomas September 23, 2022 “Scope Three” emissions are the emissions associated with the value chain – this includes supply chain provision of goods and services to the disposal of the products a company sells. In [...]
Geopolitics of Subsea Cables in the Arctic As published in the September Issue of SubTel Forum Magazine By Alexandra Middleton and Bjørn Rønning September 22, 2022 Subsea cables are essential parts of infrastructure, in that they serve to transmit all Internet data. For something so critical to our modern life they are well hidden in the depths of oceans [...]
How Distributed Fiber Sensing Is Advancing Subsea Cable Monitoring As published in the September Issue of SubTel Forum Magazine By Mark Englund September 22, 2022 When the first telegraph message sent via subsea cable was transmitted in 1868 between the UK and Canada, a lack of cable capacity and repeaters restricted the cable transmission to 2 [...]