Backgrounder: UVic Signs $39 Million Contract for Neptune Project Infrastructure
Alcatel
With sales of EURO 12.3 billion and 56,000 employees in 2004, Alcatel operates in more than 130 countries. Alcatel provides communications solutions to telecommunication carriers, Internet service providers and enterprises for delivery of voice, data and video applications to their customers or employees. Alcatel has played a key role in the development and implementation of the most important submarine cable networks in operation today, connecting every continent from Europe to Asia, crossing the length of the Americas and spanning the Pacific. Alcatel has installed over 450,000 km of submarine networks—enough to circle Earth 11 times. From single network elements to integrated, modular network solutions, from city-to-city to transcontinental networks, Alcatel provides every part of a global transmission network, all tailored to its customers’ needs.
www.alcatel.com
Alcatel Canada
Alcatel Canada employs close to 2,700 people in offices across the country, including Vancouver. Alcatel Canada develops a broad range of technologies including broadband networking products and optical networking equipment. Locally, Alcatel Canada developed the automatic train control solution for Greater Vancouver’s Skytrain system and supplied a private microwave radio and switching network to BC Hydro which is used for many applications, including the mission-critical one to isolate faults in the power system. Alcatel Canada’s primary responsibility on NEPTUNE is for the Internet protocol equipment that enables communication between land-based scientists and the offshore instruments.
www.alcatel.ca/company/about_ca.jhtml
Nautronix MariPro
California-based Nautronix MariPro Inc., Underwater Test and Evaluation Ranges centre of excellence of the Nautronix Group of Aberdeen, Scotland, specializes in the design of long-life, highly reliable underwater acoustic and electro-magnetic systems. With over 65 employees, Nautronix MariPro integrates state-of-the-art electro-optics with appropriate sensor technologies and robust mechanical systems to provide innovative solutions to demanding system requirements. The considerations of at-sea installations are a key element of the Nautronix MariPro Inc. design process. Nautronix MariPro’s primary responsibilities on NEPTUNE are for developing, manufacturing and testing the ROV serviceable science node assemblies. Nautronix MariPro is an industrial partner on the MARS development team.
www.nautronix.com
Satlantic
Halifax-based Satlantic designs, manufactures and sells a wide range of precision sensors and systems for the study of aquatic environments. With over 20 employees and sales
representatives in 12 countries, Satlantic has experience with custom-designed sub-sea
systems delivering real-time data. Satlantic’s primary responsibility on NEPTUNE is for the development, manufacture and testing of the low voltage converters and control software. Satlantic is involved in upgrading Rutgers University’s Long-Term Ecosystem Observatory at 15 Metres (LEO-15) in the coastal waters of New Jersey and installing the coastal Bonne Bay Observatory for Memorial University of Newfoundland.
www.satlantic.com
< Back to ReleaseWith sales of EURO 12.3 billion and 56,000 employees in 2004, Alcatel operates in more than 130 countries. Alcatel provides communications solutions to telecommunication carriers, Internet service providers and enterprises for delivery of voice, data and video applications to their customers or employees. Alcatel has played a key role in the development and implementation of the most important submarine cable networks in operation today, connecting every continent from Europe to Asia, crossing the length of the Americas and spanning the Pacific. Alcatel has installed over 450,000 km of submarine networks—enough to circle Earth 11 times. From single network elements to integrated, modular network solutions, from city-to-city to transcontinental networks, Alcatel provides every part of a global transmission network, all tailored to its customers’ needs.
www.alcatel.com
Alcatel Canada
Alcatel Canada employs close to 2,700 people in offices across the country, including Vancouver. Alcatel Canada develops a broad range of technologies including broadband networking products and optical networking equipment. Locally, Alcatel Canada developed the automatic train control solution for Greater Vancouver’s Skytrain system and supplied a private microwave radio and switching network to BC Hydro which is used for many applications, including the mission-critical one to isolate faults in the power system. Alcatel Canada’s primary responsibility on NEPTUNE is for the Internet protocol equipment that enables communication between land-based scientists and the offshore instruments.
www.alcatel.ca/company/about_ca.jhtml
Nautronix MariPro
California-based Nautronix MariPro Inc., Underwater Test and Evaluation Ranges centre of excellence of the Nautronix Group of Aberdeen, Scotland, specializes in the design of long-life, highly reliable underwater acoustic and electro-magnetic systems. With over 65 employees, Nautronix MariPro integrates state-of-the-art electro-optics with appropriate sensor technologies and robust mechanical systems to provide innovative solutions to demanding system requirements. The considerations of at-sea installations are a key element of the Nautronix MariPro Inc. design process. Nautronix MariPro’s primary responsibilities on NEPTUNE are for developing, manufacturing and testing the ROV serviceable science node assemblies. Nautronix MariPro is an industrial partner on the MARS development team.
www.nautronix.com
Satlantic
Halifax-based Satlantic designs, manufactures and sells a wide range of precision sensors and systems for the study of aquatic environments. With over 20 employees and sales
representatives in 12 countries, Satlantic has experience with custom-designed sub-sea
systems delivering real-time data. Satlantic’s primary responsibility on NEPTUNE is for the development, manufacture and testing of the low voltage converters and control software. Satlantic is involved in upgrading Rutgers University’s Long-Term Ecosystem Observatory at 15 Metres (LEO-15) in the coastal waters of New Jersey and installing the coastal Bonne Bay Observatory for Memorial University of Newfoundland.
www.satlantic.com