Optimise your fiber optic operations

Whether you are seeking a state-of-the-art cable vessel, converting an existing vessel, and whether you are looking to lay cables, bury them or both, we have decades of experience in all these areas to help you complete your project successfully.

Vessels

Royal IHC offer a range of high performance fiber optic/telecoms cable lay vessels combining high cable storage, high lay speed and optimised deck layouts.

Fiber optic vessel

Product

Fiber optic cable lay vessels

Telecom cable lay vessels designed for specialist, telecom cablelay projects. Based on unique knowledge of cable installation and burial operations.

Lay equipment

We offer a full range of cable lay equipment to suit your needs and are equally experienced supplying full cable lay spreads or integrating a specific part into a pre-existing spread. You can also rent equipment for these purposes.

Integrated control system
Our integrated control system allows the whole lay spread to be operated from a single control cabin with minimal local intervention needed.

Linear cable engines
Our linear cable engines (LCEs) come in a range of sizes and are modular and containerisable. These can be as small as a 1 or 2 wheel pair transporter to aid in the loading of the tanks when in harbour, and general haulage around deck. Our 4 wheel pair draw off hold back (DOHB) units are typically employed in tandem with our cable drum engines to provide the hold back tension for the capstan winch to operate. Our modular LCE systems can be built up from a number of 6 or 8 wheel pair units to form high tension LCEs up to 21 wheel pairs and beyond.

Cable drum engines
Our cable drum engines (CDEs) are well suited for deeper water depths and higher cable tensions up to 40t. Optimised for ease of use, our drum engines are supplied with fleeting knives and can be supplied with our fleeting ring technology to keep the cable centred on the drum.

Burial

We are at the forefront of fiber optic cable burial/subsea plough technology striving to safely and efficiently bury telecoms cables despite ever changing cable parameters, deeper burial depths and deeper water depth. Our launch and recovery systems (LARS) handles a range of products from high bollard pull ploughs, to tethered trenchers and ROVs and are suitable for our own vehicles and others.