QUINTILLION SUBSEA CABLE SYSTEM

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QUINTILLION SUBSEA CABLE SYSTEM
Quintillion
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Yellow Sea in Anchorage, Alaska.
Quintillion is a private operator headquartered
Majority funded by U.S. private investment firm
Investment
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Partners, Quintillion is led by Founding
Partner
&
CEO,
Elizabeth
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Pierce. Quintillion was established with the goal of bringing
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fiber to the Arctic and some of its mostSea
rural
and underserved
of
Japan
communities, and to eventually connect
Europe with the Far East.
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The company contracts to sell capacity on its network on a
Tokyo providing access to
wholesale basis, with Quintillion’s system
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Sea
substantially improved service quality for telecommunications
providers while reducing the cost of backhaul infrastructure
compared to existing satellite and microwave technologies.
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The company is currently constructing “Phase 1” of a planned multiphase subsea and terrestrial fiber optic cable network, which will
connect communities across the North American Arctic to the World
Wide Web. The system will connect
P A C I Finitially
I C through existing fiber
OCEAN
to the U.S. Pacific Northwest and ultimately to Asia and Europe.
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Barrow
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The Project
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The Quintillion system, starting with Phase 1 - Alaska,
will have substantial beneficial effects on the cost of
communication services in the Arctic - significantly improving
the quality of life for people living and working there.
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Sea
Construction is already underway to complete Phase 1 - Alaska, including
installation of a subsea fiber optic cable from Prudhoe Bay to Nome,
Alaska, with spurs to Nome, Kotzebue, Point Hope, Wainwright, Barrow
and Prudhoe Bay, Alaska. At Prudhoe Bay, the system will interconnect
with existing fiber from Fairbanks to Anchorage, Alaska, and on to the U.S.
Pacific Northwest. Phase 1 - Alaska is on schedule to be in-service Q1 2017.
In subsequent phases Quintillion plans to extend the system internationally to
Asia and Europe, with additional spurs to Alaska and the Canadian Arctic, offering
increased hi-speed capacity, lower latency, and critically-needed diverse and
redundant communication routes at speeds faster than existing transmission rates.
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Nome
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Anchorage
Prudhoe
Bay
Quintillion
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Fairbanks
Existing
System
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Alaska
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Project Status
Overview:
Phase 1 In-Service - Q1 2017:
»»Trunk and branch configuration
»»Phase 1 marine installation June through October 2016
»»3-Pair System - initially 100Gbps x 100 λ per fiber pair = 30
Terabits per second
»»Resilient Cable Design - double-armored and buried in
shallow waters
»»Robust power supply and redundant terminal and
distribution equipment
»»Provide true broadband at substantially lower cost than
existing satellite and microwave backhaul
»»25+ year life, high-quality glass and programmable repeaters
»»Enable 21st century technology in the Arctic
»»100% privately funded
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Yellow Sea
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SOUTH
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DENMARK
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Japan
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Tokyo
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ARCTIC OCEAN
Baffin
Bay
ARCTIC OCEAN
Chukchi
Sea
Point Hope
Labrador
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Beaufort
Sea
Beaufort Sea
Bering
Sea
Davis
Strait
Wainwright
Barrow
Chukchi Sea
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OCEAN
Denmark
Strait
Kotzebue
Nome
A laska
Anchorage
Prudhoe
Bay
Quintillion
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Fairbanks
Hudson Bay
Existing
System
Gulf of
Alaska
CA N A DA
Quintillion Phase One Subsea Line
Quintillion Phase Two Subsea Line
Quintillion Phase Three Subsea line
Quintillion Terrestrial Line
Existing Systems
U NIT ED S TAT E S
Gulf of Alaska
P A Phase
CIFIC
OCEAN
1
Nome to Prudhoe Bay, Alaska with spurs
to Kotzebue, Point Hope, Wainwright and
Barrow. Prudhoe Bay connects to new fiber
extending to Fairbanks. Fairbanks connects
to existing fiber optic cable systems to
Anchorage and the U.S. Pacific Northwest.
Phase 2
Phase 3
Additional subsea fiber
would extend from Phase 1
by starting at Nome, Alaska
to Japan, with options for
This phase would lay additional subsea
additional Alaska spurs.
fiber starting from Prudhoe Bay, Alaska
to Canada and Europe, with planned
spurs into the Canadian Arctic.
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