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Modernising the Guyana and Suriname telecommunications infrastructure. |
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| Principal Sponsor: - TELESUR, Guyana Telephone and Telegraph (GT&T) Completion Date: 2010 The Project: Beginning in 2008, Suriname’s TELESUR and Guyana’s GT&T joined forces to provide greater bandwidth capacity and a more modernized telecommunications infrastructure for their countries. They used Global Marine Systems to provide a turnkey solution for cabling between Trinidad and Guyana, with a branching unit to Suriname. The Challenge: Manufacturing and installing the system on a tight deadline so that the customer could get live traffic on the system before a certain date. Global Marine Systems Delivered: The 1300km system was installed as a repeatered solution with optimum repeater spacing of 70km, and with each fibre pair having a maximum capacity of 64x10Gbit/s wavelengths. Each fibre pair was equipped on day one with an initial capacity of 2x10Gbit/s wavelengths upon implementation. Global Marine Systems called on Huawei Marine Networks, which has as its parents Huawei Technologies and Global Marine Systems, for the an innovative repeater design, and for branching units design and manufacture. Because of the innovative design of the terminal equipment, system upgrades can easily and cost effectively be accomplished when required. Global Marine Systems used Denholm Offshore Limited for all shore end landings. The first was landed directly from Global Marine Systems’ CS Sovereign in Trinidad, with 18km & 27km pre laid shore-end cables installed at Suriname and Guyana respectively. Global Marine Systems cableship CS Sovereign utilised the submersible plough and remotely operated vehicle systems to install the cable up to one metre below the seabed. Significant pre laid shore end installation operations were required at both Suriname and Guyana. Resources Deployed: CS Sovereign - one of the most advanced off-shore engineering ships of its kind. Barge Egret - mobilised from a dumb barge status to provide a purpose built platform to allow for the unusual distances required for the pre laid shore end installations. Hi-Plough - designed to operate to depths of 1,500m, and can achieve a burial depth of 3 metres. It is capable of installing cable, repeaters and cable splice boxes.  |
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Facts & Features
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| What's being connected | Two fibre pair solution terminated between Trinidad and Guyana, with a branching unit into Suriname |
| Kilometres installed | 1,300km |
| Repeaters | 17 (optimum repeater spacing of 70km) |
| Cable manufacturer | Nexans |
