By WFN Strategies
WFN Strategies is presently accomplishing the end-to-end desktop route study of the 15,000+ km Arctic Fibre submarine cable system.
WFN Strategies’ executive Desktop Study (eDTS) is an expedited version of a “regular” desktop study, but produced in a shortened timeframe, and providing only essential data and analysis for eventual supplier system consideration. An in-depth analysis using all readily available data sources along the route in question is performed in order to produce a preliminary route and associated maps. The data used to derive the route and the maps is summarized in the route’s metadata and on the associated charts.
“WFN Strategies is very pleased to be providing on-going engineering and implementation support for the Arctic Fibre submarine cable system,” said Wayne Nielsen, Managing Director for WFNS. “The Arctic Fibre project allows us to utilize diverse Arctic and Antarctic developed expertise in a single significantly large and technically challenging system.”
Upon completion of the eDTS in August, Arctic Fibre will issue a formal request for proposal to construct the network. The Arctic Fibre eDTS will underpin an extensive marine survey, which will be conducted in 2013.
About WFN Strategies
WFN Strategies is a leading supplier of consultancy services for telecoms to the commercial, governmental and oil & gas industries worldwide. The company works with many of the world’s leading telecoms companies to achieve value and high performance. Their clients receive reliable, cost-effective, quality advice based on proven methodologies, efficient tools, and stable architecture. For more information, please visit www.wfnstrategies.com.
About Arctic Fibre
Arctic Fibre Inc. (www.arcticfibre.com) is the Canadian-based developer of the 15,000+ km submarine cable which will provide the lowest latency route between Northern China and Japan to Northern Europe by using a route through Canada’s North West Passage. Arctic Fibre’s backbone 40G network will provide the lowest latency network between Japan and England with a round trip latency of 168 milliseconds. It will also provide much-needed bandwidth to communities in the Canadian and Alaskan Arctic enabling consumers to access technologies taken for granted in urban areas. The network will also facilitate the provision of essential governmental services in telemedicine, distance education and the administration of justice at far lower cost than present practices.
