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VANCOUVER ISLAND – Significant progress has been made by the Connected Coast Network on the installation of the cable around the Broughton Archipelago, Johnstone Strait, Port McNeil and Port Hardy. The project is running subsea fibre along the entire coast of BC and around Vancouver Island, connecting more than 139 communities.
Crews on board the Ocean Destiny and the Western Princess are currently loaded up with cable and are installing cable from a landing site at the end of Fisher Channel (near Bella Bella), via the Canadian Coast Guard Addenbroke Lightstation, through Fitz Hugh Sound and Port Hardy.
The milestone of landing the northern cable into Port Hardy will soon be reached.
While construction is ongoing the technical teams from CityWest and Baylink Networks are working on testing and commissioning of the network for all the cables recently installed between Port Hardy and Vancouver. These teams have to travel to each site, installing the final network gear and testing signals and operational components. Once everything is tested and commissioned CityWest is able to accept the network from their builder and begin its quality control work before lighting up the network as operational.
The permitting team has been working collaboratively with First Nations, Municipalities and the Ministry of Forests to permit the remaining network segments. The teams from Front Counter BC and the Ministry of Forests have been essential in the processing of the design and permitting.
The City of Vancouver has also shown strong support for the project, with the engineering reviews complete for the final connection into Vancouver designed so they can plan construction to make the redundant link into the main terrestrial network. With these designs in place they anticipate construction in downtown Vancouver to happen soon.
You can check in regularly with the build status map that tracks the installation progress on a bi-weekly basis! The coming months will be busy with many landing connections switching on!
Follow along and see the current build status on specific locations, search the status of specific landing sites and zoom in for more details.
Follow the construction journey by viewing our Interactive Build Status map at www.connectedcoast.ca/map
The Connected Coast Network (CCN) is built, owned, maintained & operated under a partnership (CCN Partnership) between City West Management Corp. (CW) and Strathcona Regional District. CW, as the managing partner, primarily is responsible for all aspects of design, commissioning, maintenance and support of network infrastructure, services and third-party agreements.
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