Subsea Cable Maintenance and Repair
Marine Subsea Telecoms Cable Repair Operations
Maintenance and repair are essential to ensure the continued operation, reliability and longevity of any subsea cable system. Broken fibre optic links or damaged cable sections can lead to significant downtime and costly repairs if not addressed promptly. A-2-Sea Solutions offers a comprehensive range of subsea telecoms cable repair operations, including emergency response services and planned maintenance programs.
Fibre optic cables are the predominant means of international telecommunications, with subsea cable systems spanning thousands of kilometres across oceans and seas. These cables carry an enormous amount of data, including internet traffic, telephone communications, and other forms of digital communication. At A-2-Sea, we understand the critical nature of these systems and provide a wide range of services to support our clients in their fibre cable network maintenance and repair needs.
Our fibre optic cable repair services include:
Emergency Fibre Optic Repair Call Out
Faulty fibre optic connections can result in major disruptions to network operations and costly downtime. With A-2-Sea, you can rely on our team to respond swiftly and efficiently to a cable fault to get your network back up and running. We offer an emergency fiber optic repair service in relation to faults or damage to subsea cable systems.
Our team of fibre optic repair engineers are available at short notice to provide a fast response to emergency fibre repairs and deliver an efficient and effective repair service. We understand the importance of restoring connectivity as quickly as possible, with minimum downtime, and our dedicated team works diligently to fix broken fibre optic links and minimise downtime for our customers.
Planned Maintenance for Submarine Cable Systems
Our planned call-out services are designed to proactively identify and address any potential issues before they become major problems. We work closely with our clients to develop maintenance plans that meet industry requirements, including regular inspections and repairs. This helps to prevent unexpected downtime and ensures the smooth operation of your subsea optical fibre network.
Marine Fibre Optic Repair Planning
Preparing for a subsea cable repair operation is an essential part of the process. Our skilled fibre engineers have extensive experience planning and preparing for fibre optic repairs, ensuring the operation runs smoothly and efficiently with minimal disruption. Designed to meet industry standards and best practices, our repair plans consider all aspects of the operation.
Mobilisation and Demobilisation of Cable Ship
In addition to planning, we also handle the mobilisation and demobilisation of specialised cable ships for fibre repair works. This includes coordinating with vessel owners, contractors, and suppliers to ensure a seamless process.
Provision of Offshore Customer Representative
For our clients who require additional support during repair operations, we offer the provision of offshore customer representatives. These experienced professionals act as liaisons between our clients and the fibre optic repair engineers, providing updates and ensuring all needs are met.
Provision of Onshore Repair Manager
We also offer the services of an onshore equipment repair manager to oversee and manage all aspects of fibre optic cable repair. This includes coordinating with offshore teams of engineers, managing budgets and timelines, and providing regular updates to our clients.
Management of Marine Repair Operation
Our team has extensive experience managing fibre optic repairs, ensuring that all elements are executed efficiently and cost-effectively. This includes coordinating with vessel crews, overseeing repairs, and providing timely updates to our clients.
We understand the importance of minimising downtime and strive to complete repairs as quickly as possible.
Cable analysis qualification
With the potential to cause significant issues for asset owners, faulty fibre optic cabling can occur through various means, including turbulent weather, fishing activity, improper installation, earthquakes and dredging.
Upon completion of cable repair, a cable analysis should be performed on a sample of the damaged cable to determine the fault cause. At A-2-Sea, our highly qualified team provide this cable analysis as a complimentary service to our clients, complete with a comprehensive, clear report on the origin of the failure.
Subsea Cable Recovery
A-2-Sea works with its clients to recover or move an existing optical fibre network system. The system may be placed into storage for future use or, after recovery, installed in a new location. In either case, A-2-Sea provides expert inspection and testing of the recovered fibre optic cables. When held in our storage facility, we provide scheduled testing and turning of the cable.
If required, we can also dispose of the recovered cable with appropriate certification. Our team has extensive experience in subsea cable recovery projects, ensuring that the process is completed safely and efficiently.
Cable Storage and Testing
A-2-Sea has a secure depot for storage of customers' equipment and spare fibre optic cabling and provides periodic testing to ensure the cable conforms to system requirements. A-2-Sea offers a comprehensive optical and electrical cable testing service. Our trained and experienced team tests and characterises subsea optical cable systems and provides the test results and full data-packs to system owners and customers.
As part of system maintenance contracts, customer repair cables are regularly tested and documented at our secure storage facilities in Hampshire.
Additional Services
- Manage marine maintenance spares
- Manage third party damage claims
- Expert witness
- Representation at Cable System Consortia and Cable Management Agreement Meetings.
- Cable crossing and proximity agreements
- Fishing liaison
- Fouled Cable Incident Management
- Ad hoc operations and maintenance, offshore liaison.
- Shallow Water installations
- CLS equipment installation
- Land route and marine surveys
- Emergency Fibre Optic Repair
- Recovery operations: cable landing station equipment, land cable, land joint, inshore and offshore shallow water marine cable
- Remedial shore end operations: emergency shore end reburial, planned shore end reburial, shore end excavation/slack management
- Navigational aid: emergency and planned refurbishment and replacement.
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