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Cable Fault Data

Understanding the submarine cable landscape has never been as important as it is now. At OceanIQ®, we can provide you with detailed fault rate heatmaps and analysis reports that outline the number of faults that can be expected on each kilometre of a cable, within a specific area, per year.

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Cable Fault Heatmaps

OceanIQ® can provide you with detailed fault rate heatmaps and analysis reports that outline the number of faults that can be expected on each kilometre of a cable.

Data & Intelligence at Your Fingertips:

  • Utilising our cable database, analyse 6,500 historical global cable faults to easily identify areas of high fault rates, overall minimising system downtime
  • Plan new cables in the lowest fault-rate areas
  • Make informed decisions to maintenance requirements based on historical trends
  • View fault density by cause such as fishing, anchoring or seismic activity
  • With our Cable Fault Heat Map plan efficiently with GIS data layers that provide an estimate of the number of faults per km of cable per year
  • Detailed data within each grid area
    • The number of historical fibre optic faults
    • Maximum and minimum depth of the cable fault
    • Average depth of the cable faults
    • The number of kilometre years
    • Faults per kilometre per year
    • Faults per 1,000 kilometres per year
    • The number of different cable systems
    • The number of in and out-of-service fibre optic cables
    • The number of faults falling within territorial waters
    • The number of faults falling within contiguous zones
    • The number of faults falling within exclusive economic zones
    • Maritime boundaries overlap for areas where conflicting claims are made for the same area of sea

Get a quote today – all this beneficial data may be even better value than you’d expect!

Cable Fault Prediction Report

With our Cable Fault Prediction Report you can consider the security of a specific cable route ahead of installation, and plan in advance for the optimum maintenance provision over the life of a cable system.

Amongst its many benefits:

  • Extensive analysis of over 6,500 historical fault records to provide a predicted number of faults for proposed and newly installed cable routes
  • Geographically specific to the cable being analysed
  • Provides a detailed cable fault rate map, colour-coded to show areas of greatest risk
  • Details expected fault cause: fishing, anchor, seismic etc.
  • Breaks down the assessment to look at shallow and deep water
  • Lists which country’s maritime boundaries the faults are likely to occur in
  • Delivered in a detailed report
  • Quick turnaround can be delivered within days

Streamline your subsea project with intelligent cable fault data from OceanIQ today!

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