By taking part in two important industry white papers alongside Infinera and Jio, Omantel, the top supplier of integrated telecommunication services in the Sultanate of Oman, has enhanced its position as an enabler of innovation in subsea cable technology. The first white paper describes an innovative method called Automatic Fast System Optimisation that shows how to restore affected services on a subsea system with several branches after the breakdown of one or more indirect branches. 

 

The applied approach significantly lessens the damage by restricting the outage to only branches directly related to the problem while services on the indirect branches will be recovered and operate as usual. Subsea cable faults often take months to fix. Better customer experience management will result from this creative solution, which will increase operational efficiency overall and maintain service quality for the majority of the impacted subsea cable.

 

The second white paper gives a case study of how spectral efficiency of multi-branched subsea cable systems can be increased by combining modulation formats with wide range and fine granularity with electrical and optical switching techniques. The study also demonstrates how the same technology may be configured differently to handle dynamic changes in traffic needs. 

 

The study's findings suggest that there are some situations in which current subsea cables can meet increasing traffic demands without requiring an urgent investment in new subsea systems. This, in turn, leads to improved utilisation of investments and assets in a market that is expanding quickly.  

 

Through its representative Willy George (Senior Strategist Wholesale), who serves as Co-Chair of the Technical Working Group for the Asia-Africa-Europe 1 (AAE-1) subsea cable consortium, Omantel co-authored the white papers.