Shifting Dynamics In Intercontinental Cabling

When a manufacturing facility producing high-reliability components for long-distance submarine cables suddenly has to triple its output of couplers for prestige clients, meeting this demand is literally a tall order. But this is exactly what happened at our Torquay facility.

Torquay has been making high-reliability (HI REL) fused couplers for the past 21 years, which we design and specify for never-fail deployment on the ocean floor. Recently the world’s appetite for these critical enabling technologies has multiplied, with bandwidth requirement literally exploding, driven by the growth in fiber-to-home installation, the increasing use of social media applications, and also, of course, by the huge rise in video calls and remote working caused by the Covid pandemic. Some cables now in use are capable of a total two-way carrying capacity of 60 terabits per second.