Alcatel AAG S3 Philippines contract awarded

Date: 16 Feb 2009

Insight Marine have recently been awarded the contract to provide surface positioning services for cable burial works on the Luzon landing of the Seg-3 AAG (Asia-America Gateway) submarine network.

The work represents challenges due to the remote nature of the work site. To maintain positioning accuracy differential signals will have to be sourced from Fugro's Omnistar system due to the lack of coastal radio beacons in the country.

French vendor Alcatel-Lucent and Japanese supplier NEC will jointly deploy the Asia America Gateway (AAG), the first direct terabit submarine cable network between south-east Asia and the United States. Spanning over 20,000 km with a capacity of 1.92Tbps, AAG will link Malaysia to the US west coast via Singapore, Thailand, Brunei, Vietnam, Hong Kong, the Philippines, Guam and Hawaii. The contract that will see the cable laid is worth approximately USD500 million and was signed by a consortium formed by ten parties including the Government of Brunei, AT&T (USA), Bharti (India), CAT (Thailand), PLDT (Philippines), Telkom (Indonesia), Telekom Malaysia (Malaysia), Telstra (Australia), StarHub (Singapore) and VNPT (Vietnam).

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