ITG completes cable burial for Alcatel on the Apollo project The International Telecom Group (ITG) recently completed three shore end submarine cable installations for Alcatel’s submarine networks activity on the Apollo Project. The Apollo Fiber Optic Cable System is a state-of-the-art optically amplified submarine cable network comprising two trans-Atlantic cable routes of approximately 13,000km that cross between Europe and the USA. The initial system capacity of 160 gigabits per fiber pair is upgradeable using dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM). At the European end a 6.7Km section was installed and buried at depths up to 2m in Lannion, France. ITG mobilized their modular cable lay system along with their 5m Jet Plow aboard the vessel MV Union Beaver at Flushing, Holland then loaded cable at the Alcatel factory in Calais and completed the operation at Lannion.
equipped with an ITG fixed share Jet Plow submarine cable burial system. The Thomas C is a 57m LOA converted Offshore Supply Vessel fitted with a custom designed modular submarine cable laying system. The Thomas C is particularly suited for Shore end work, repeaterless telecom systems and submarine power cable installations. The landings at both Manasquan and Shirley were completed to full burial specification, on schedule and within budget. ITG Cable Jet Plow Deployment at Lannion, France
Subsea burial was achieved to specification in a particularly challenging bottom environment that included a mixture of firm gravel & large cobble. At the US end two landings were completed. A 1.4Km section was laid and buried at Manasquan, New Jersey and then a 2.3Km section was installed at Shirley, New York. ITG utilized their cable lay vessel MV Thomas C 17
ITG’s MV “Thomas C” sets up off Manasquan New Jersey