Maritime Reporter, April, 1991

<BODY> <div> AT&T Awarded $157 Million Contract To Build Undersea Fiber-Optic Cable —Color Brochure Available AT&T has been awarded a $157 million contract to build a new un- dersea fiber-optic cable that will link the U.S. mainland to Hawaii in 1993. Known as Haw-5, the cable is the fifth to link Hawaii to the mainland and the second fiber-optic cable to do so. The cable, which will carry voice and data traffic, includes three pairs of fiber, two active and operating at 560 megabits per second and one fiber pair for reserve. If the entire cable were used for voice, it could handle 80,000 simultaneous tele- phone conversations. The world's first transoceanic lightwave system, TAT-8, went into service in 1988 and has a capacity of 40,000 simultaneous telephone calls. TAT-9, to be deployed in 1991, will handle 80,000 simultaneous calls. A new fiber-optic cable would have a capacity of 600,000 simulta- neous conversations using optical amplifiers and operating at 2.4 giga- bits (billion bits per second) over two pairs of fibers and using con- ventional compression techniques. AT&T Bell Laboratories scien- tists are experimenting with optical amplifiers in ultra-long-distance systems and in systems for island- to-island or coast-to-coast transmis- sion. Related research involves high-repetition lasers, pump lasers, all-optical logic elements, integrated optical waveguide devices, and new types of optical fiber. AT&T also announced that it is adding a $6 million robotic Seabed Tractor to its stable of undersea cable laying equipment. The 10-ton vehicle can begin burying cable at the top of a beach, drive through the surf and continue laying cable until the water is almost a mile deep. Undersea cable is buried in a trench about 3 feet deep. When trenching, the hydraulic-powered Seabed Tractor travels at speeds ranging from 3 to 15 feet per min- ute, and can reach speeds up to 150 feet per minute when not trench- ing. The Seabed Tractor, which is NEI Syncrolift Wins Over $3 Million In Orders For Shiplifts, Transfer Systems NEI Syncrolift of Miami, Fla., a world leader in shiplift technology, has received two more orders for shiplifts and transfer systems val- ued in excess of $3 million. One order for an eight-hoist unit with a lifting capacity of 1,150 tons was placed by the TOA Corporation of Japan. The Syncrolift, for instal- lation at Port D'Agadir in the King- dom of Morocco, is to be used for the docking of fishing vessels. The second order, for an 1,860- manufactured by Soil Machine Dy- namics in Newcastle, U.K., will be stationed in Baltimore. 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