Fiber Submarine Cable Line Proposed for Coastal Alaska
Nome and Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, could be linked by a new multistage high-capacity fiber system by Q1 2017, Quintillion Subsea Operations said in an FCC International Bureau application Thursday seeking authority to build and operate the system. That cable is…
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expected to be the first stage of a larger submarine cable system that eventually will go international, Quintillion said. The proposed Alaska line will have six landing stations in the state, as the first fiber cable at five of them, and provide coastal communities in northern and northwest Alaska with fiber-based communications that connect with other carriers and providers at each landing site, Quintillion said, saying it hopes to have the network constructed by October. The first vessel transporting the cable is expected to leave port in France April 18, Quintillion said. Any license grant later than that "creates the very real potential to delay the coming-into-operation date until the third quarter of 2017 at the earliest, if not considerably longer," given the short Alaskan construction season, Quintillion said.