Alcatel-Lucent's submarine networks - Crossing oceans to connect the planet
Oceans cover more than 70% of the Earth - separating continents, and separating people. Submarine telecom networks have broken submerged distance barriers. By acting as massive data highways linking all the continents, submarine cable networks have helped achieve the current level of globalization.
The convergence of services (broadband internet
+ video on demand + voice) is becoming a significant reality. The
need to develop and adapt existing networks to meet these new challenges.
To run their global businesses, operators and service-providers
rely on submarine networks for voice, data and Internet communications.
Meeting their requirements calls for network reliability and technology
innovation: that's Alcatel-Lucent!
From single network elements to integrated, modular
network solutions, from city-to-city to transcontinental networks,
Alcatel-Lucent provides every part of a global transmission network,
all tailored to its customers' needs. A very comprehensive service
portfolio- from business plans and feasibility studies to installation
and maintenance - completes its turnkey offering for the submarine
business.
Alcatel-Lucent's dense wavelength division multiplexing
(DWDM) optical submarine systems that transmit light undersea to
safely and quickly connect people, businesses and countries has
vastly contributed to globalization. With the most successful track
record on the market, Alcatel-Lucent brings advanced and proven
DWDM technology and a turnkey approach to submarine networks to
enable operators and service-providers rely on submarine networks
for voice, data and Internet communications.
Leveraging its over 150 years of experience in
the submarine business, as well as worldwide leadership in the global
optical networking market since 2001 according to Ovum-RHK , Alcatel-Lucent
leads the industry in terms of:
• Capacity - with up to 10 Tbit/s using the latest dense wavelength-division multiplexing (DWDM) technology: more than 120 million simultaneous phone calls, 16,000 CD-ROMS or 1,600 high definition movies.
• Installed base - with over 461,500 km of submarine networks, enough to circle the globe at the Equator 11 times.
Alcatel-Lucent has been involved in most of the
major submarine projects launched over the past two years and a
half including Sea-Me-We 4, FALCON, the Sea-Me-We 3 upgrade, Canada's
University of Victoria (NEPTUNE Canada subsea-cabled observatory),
Columbus Communications (FibraLink network), Global Caribbean Network,
Global Crossing, Kodiak Kenai Cable Company for the Kodiak Kenai
Fiber Link (KKFL), INFN for NEMO undersea telescope in the Mediterranean,
Maroc Telecom, Middle Caribbean Network, Orascom Telecom and the
SAT-3/WASC network upgrade.
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