• Contractual Length : 563 Km
• Initial capacity :300Gbit/s
• Maximum capacity :100x100Gbit/s
• Terminal stations :Oran, Algiers and Valencia

Project’s Key-dates:

• March 31st 2015: signing of the procurement contract between the Ministry of Post and ICT (MPTIC), Alcatel Submarine Networks group and I.T International Telecom Marine SRL.
• August 6, 2015:MPTIC signed a notification of agreement for Algerie Telecom allowing it to join ORVAL project via the achievement of a connector unit “CU” and an undersea section between the CU and Algiers. Then, “ALVAL” project was created aimed for linking Algiers to Valencia funded by Algerie Telecom’s own funds.
• December 7th 2015 :Launch of ORVAL achievement works;
• Achievementof sea survey operations, leading to the final stop of sea and land route of the undersea cable in May 2016;
• Setting up, on March 8, 2016, Algerie Telecom Europe (ATE), a subsidiary of Algerie Telecom in Spain aimed for representing the Algerian State in the implementation of the system and its economic exploitation;
• June 17, 2018 :completion of works related to the undersea cable laying;
• Layout and set up of all equipments of the two stations Oran and Algiers;
• The works on the two land routes were completed. The reception of these routes is announced in by June-July 2018.

Contract’s Amount :    26 038 012 Euros B.T.

Achievement enterprise : Alcatel Submarine Networks Group (ASN) and I.T International Telecom Marine SRL- Leader : ASN

Partners : Algérie Telecom for the southern Shore ( Oran- Algeria )

Algerie Telecom for the Southern shore (Oran, Algiers , Algeria) Algerie Telecom Europe (ATE) for the Northern shore (Valencia –Spain)

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