(Stavanger/Amsterdam October 13th)Tampnet and KPN are excited to announce that Tampnet’s network on the Dutch continental shelf will be live from October 12th. A total of 10 new masts with 25 antennas will provide 4G LTE, GSM, NB-IoT and CATM1 services to the oil and gas, offshore wind and maritime industries. The coverage in Dutch waters has been increased by more than 5,000 km2 and now reaches up to 300 km off the Dutch coastline.
In cooperation with KPN, the largest telecoms operator in the Netherlands, Tampnet has now safely and successfully installed 10 new masts with 25 antennas in the Dutch part of the North Sea adding flexibility and redundancy to the oil and gas operators, oilservice companies as well as the offshore wind farms, maritime industry, fishermen, cruiseship passengers and recreational boaters using this area. The 4G LTE “cloud” in the Dutch sector has been merged into Tampnet’s overall North Sea coverage, and provides a seamless and standardised offshore 4G LTE service between Norway, Denmark, the UK and now also the Netherlands.
Efficiency and more sustainable offshore industries
KPN and Tampnet focus strongly on industrial users who need robust, high capacity and fast mobile connections at sea. It is estimated that approx. 5,000 people earn their living on offshore platforms and from fishing in this area and this number wil increase due to upcoming construction, operation and maintenance of offshore wind farms. In addition the Navy is also very active in this area.
Jacob Groote, Director 5G at KPN points out, that many mission critical activities are carried out in the North Sea area which require first class connectivity and stable connections which improve both operations efficiency, carbon footprint and safety.
During inspections and repairs of offshore installations, it is very efficient if experts can monitor work remotely from a control room onshore or on a ship. In an onshore control room it is often faster and easier to make advanced decisions and this may reduce the need to send entire teams offshore, which again reduces the carbon footprint. Moreover, people who previously had to work completely autonomously offshore can now easily receive assistance from colleagues onshore.
Jacob Groote, Director 5G, KPN.
The higher bandwidth of 4G offers many more possibilities compared to ordinary VSAT/satellite communication.
An example is video conferencing where smartphones, tablets and laptops now can be used, which means that all IT applications we use in onshore offices now also can be used offshore making the entire IT workflow much more effectent ”, Groote points out.
IoT and sensors
The network is also built to support narrowband technologies (NB-IoT & CATM1) to support the industrial digitalization efforts with sensors, so that data about corrosion, flow pressure, temperature and air quality for instance can easily be collected, connected to the cloud and transferred very quickly anywhere offshore or onshore enabling remote monitoring and predictive maintenance.
I am very proud of our technical team which has done an outstanding engineering and installation job. We are eager to provide the offshore industries on the Dutch continental shelf with first class telecommunications enabling more efficient workflows, remote asset control and digitalization by using sensors, which obviously also will help them lower their carbon footprint.
Per Helge Svensson, CEO, Tampnet.
For more information please contact:
KPN Media Relations
press@kpn.com
+31 070-4466300
Per Helge Svensson, Chief Executive Officer, Tampnet
Mobile: +47 905 29 868
Email: phs@tampnet.com
About KPN
KPN is the leading provider of telecommunication and IT services in the Netherlands and offers consumers fixed and mobile telephony, internet and television. KPN also provides fully managed telecommunication and IT solutions for business customers.
About Tampnet
Tampnet was founded in 2001 in Stavanger, Norway and operates the world’s largest offshore high capacity communication network in the North Sea and the Gulf of Mexico, serving customers within Oil & Gas, Wind Energy, Maritime and Carrier sectors with first class telecommunications. The company employs more than 100 people, is headquartered in Stavanger, Norway and has offices in the UK, the Netherlands, USA, Brazil and Australia. Tampnet connects offshore installations to redundant and reliable terrestrial networks with high capacity and low latency (high speed).
Tampnet also installs and operates offshore 4G LTE coverage networks enabling roaming and the digital transformation and internet of things (IoT) on offshore oil & gas platforms, offshore windfarms and service vessels and other commercial vessels.
Tampnet International Carrier is Tampnet’s European and transatlantic fibre infrastructure network, passing through eight selected countries. Tampnet International Carrier is all about connectivity, capacity, speed and milliseconds – data transfer with minimum delay – without compromising quality and reliability. Our unique network routes connect 30 vital data centres in 12 European and American cities and central hubs.
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