SEPTEMBER 11, 2008 -- The Alcatel-Lucent (search for Alcatel-Lucent) cable ship Ile de Sein landed today in Nuuk, Greenland, the 2,100-km trunk cable of Tele Greenland's submarine cable network. After completing the cable loading in Calais in July, the Ile de Sein began laying segments one and two in early August from Landeyjasandur in Iceland to Qaqortoq in Greenland.
Following a route carefully assessed with survey instruments mapping the seabed, these segments are three of the four sections composing the 90 million Euro project "Greenland Connect" awarded to Alcatel-Lucent in December 2007. Cable laying is expected to be completed before the winter season as planned.
Offering an ultimate capacity of up to 96x10 Gbits/sec, the Greenland Connect submarine cable network has been designed to provide international and domestic connectivity to meet the growing bandwidth requirements for new applications to serve Tele Greenland's customers. This deployment further enhances Tele Greenland's end-to-end offering for voice and data network hubs, broadband Internet, video conferencing, call centers, and advanced multimedia applications.
Alcatel-Lucent has deployed its 1620 Light Manager, its cables (equipped with branching units allowing for future connections north of Nuuk) and repeaters along the network route.
"We have addressed the increased connectivity requirements, while guaranteeing performance continuity at the highest level possible. The Greenland Connect cable exemplifies our vision 'Greenland in the Center of the World' to provide Greenland with a place on the worldwide Internet network, and direct access to American and European markets," said Brian Buus Pedersen, CEO of Tele Greenland. "Alcatel-Lucent has fully met our expectations and their submarine solutions are strategic to us to provide the technology platform and reliability our customers require to access cost-effective, innovative IT-services and, also, new opportunities with great potential in Greenland such as e-trade, e-education, e-health, e-citizen, and e-home."
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