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Asia ‘is next submarine cable target’
03 September 2010
The boom in laying submarine cables along the east and west of Africa has two years to run, with the next demand likely to emerge from Asian countries and regions that missed by the main links
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Alcatel-Lucent’s cable ship can lay 200 kilometres a day, says
captain Pierre-Emmanuel Dautry
Cable ship Ile de Batz at anchor on the River Thames — where
the industry began in the 1850s
The current boom in laying submarine cables around the coasts of Africa will end in only two years — but that will be followed by a rapidly developing market connecting places in the Asia-Pacific region that are still poorly connected.
That’s the view of one of the best informed people in the business, Philippe Dumont, the head of Alcatel-Lucent’s submarine network business.
“Operators have a limited amount of money to spend, so if they’re investing in Africa they can’t invest in Asia at the same time,” said Dumont.
Alcatel-Lucent is involved in several of the projects that are installing cables down the east coast and the west coast of Africa — including...
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