Tyco to Build Undersea Cable for Norwegian Space Center

Tyco Telecommunications was selected by a subsidiary of the Norwegian Space Centre (NSC) to supply the Svalbard Undersea Cable System linking the island of Svalbard with mainland Norway. At 78 degrees North latitude, Svalbard is in close proximity to the North Pole, and therefore, is ideally situated for collecting data from polar orbiting satellites. Tyco said the undersea system will consist of two diversely routed fiber optic segments with a total route length of 2800 km. Tyco will initially configure the system with 40 Gbps of transmission capacity. However, the system design will enable NSC to upgrade transmission capacity to over 1,280 Gbps.
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