As a vertically integrated supplier of undersea cable systems encompassing design, manufacturing, system integration, and operation, Tyco Telecommunications has considerable manufacturing capabilities and a manufacturing history of over 150 years. Tyco Telecommunications designs and manufactures both Wet Plant (cable, repeaters and branching units) and Dry Plant (transmission, powering and monitoring equipment) in two facilities in the United States and maintains a strategic supply relationship for cable manufacturing with Hitachi Cable Ltd. in Japan.
Tyco Integrated Cable Systems (TICS), located in Newington, NH manufactures the Wet Plant portion of the undersea system. In 1898 TICS manufactured one of the first undersea telegraph cables. Since that time, TICS has manufactured more than 350,000 km of undersea cable. That's enough cable to wrap around the globe more than eight times.
Today, Tyco Telecommunications has consolidated its repeater manufacturing and cable manufacturing into the TICS facility. This consolidation will reduce the integration intervals and will result in an optimal production throughput, allowing us to improve the cost and delivery of new systems.
A Tyco Telecommunications vessel is loaded with cable at TICS
Tyco Telecommunications is also leveraging the manufacturing capabilities of its corporate parent by having relocated its Dry Plant manufacturing to the Tyco Electronics manufacturing complex in Lowell, MA. This will provide significant economies of scale which will allow us to continue to offer our cutting-edge technology at economical levels.
The added manufacturing flexibility and cost-efficiencies made possible through consolidation allows Tyco Telecommunications to satisfy the current and future needs of the undersea communications market.
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