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HENGTONG MARINE Connecting the World, Connecting the Future
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he Hengtong Marine Cable Systems brand of submarine cable products may not be widely known to SubTel Forum readers. Based in China, Hengtong Marine has a rapidly developing submarine cable system manufacturing capability which operates in a healthy competitive manner. The Hengtong Group is an international company having manufacturing and R&D bases located in China, Brazil, Indonesia, Spain, Portugal, South Africa, India, Germany and Egypt). The company provides products and services in the fields of information and communication, electricity transmission and energy. The company supplies 15% of the global market of fibre optic network products. This is achieved by designing and manufacturing optical fibre preforms, drawing optical fibres (including submarine cable G652, G654, G657
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optical fibres). The product portfolio includes a wide range of terrestrial cable products ranging to the smallest micro blown fibre cables to optical composite cables and from Medium-low voltage power cables to 500kV high voltage power cables.
DATA CENTER REQUIREMENTS ARE DRIVING NEW SUBSEA SYSTEM DESIGNS
The impact of Data Centers has had a huge influence on the development of new subsea products in a very short period of time. The new technical transmission requirements of submarine cable systems linking Data Centers, has not only affected the type of fibre used in systems, typically Large Effective Area Fibres (LEAF) are specified, NOVEMBER 2018 | ISSUE 103
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