A freighter loaded with submarine fiber optic cables embarked on Sept 4 from the dedicated wharf of FiberHome Marine Network Equipment Co at the Gaolan Port Economic Zone in Jinwan District.

The cables total 800 km (497 miles) in length. They will be used in an engineering project between Malaysia and Indonesia. FiberHome's eight-pair fiber optic repeater is the only core product of a submarine optical fiber cable communication system with completely independent intellectual property rights in China.

The $30 million project was initiated in early 2018. It covers a range of shore and underwater products for marine communication, as well as construction and services.

Freighter loaded with submarine fiber optic cables

Founded in December 2015 with an investment of 2 billion yuan ($280 million), FiberHome is creating an annual production capacity of 10,000 km of submarine cables and 100 repeaters. The company has developed the core technologies of repeaters and constructed a system integrating products, engineering, and marine communication services.

Nearby, FiberHome is building "Zhuhai Gaolan Port Economic Zone Regional Medical Health Information System Construction Project" to create a personalized humanistic "smart medical" platform. The project is based on the status quo of population health informatization development in the Gaolan Port Area, integrating medical and healthcare business application systems, and building a regional health information platform based on residents' health records.

On route [Photos by Zhang Zhou / Zhuhai Daily]

FiberHome Marine Network Equipment is headquartered in Wuhan and has subsidiaries and branches in Asia, Africa, Europe, Latin America, and the Middle East. It is wholly owned by China Information & Communication Technologies Group, China's first enterprise with independent intellectual property rights spanning the marine cable industry chain.