He Cabildo de Tenerife You will take action to prevent the essential services of the Canary Islands, as digital connectivity, can be affected by a blackout. That is why it will reinforce the network that guarantees digital connectivity, both of the island and the archipelago, with Europe.
For this, those responsible have approved the tender of the preventive and corrective maintenance contract for electric generators and auxiliary systems, such as fuel tanks and switching tables, through the public company of the council in charge of the connectivity of the islands, Canalink.
These support systems are responsible for giving electrical support to the technical centers from which the broadband submarine cables that are responsible for the Canary Islands connection with the exterior are managed.
The objective of this measure is to protect the continuity of essential services, even in critical situations. Among them, the 112 emergency telephone, health care, Internet access, telephony or communications between administrations. Its drivers want to ensure that the system remains operational before any unforeseen event, such as the blackout of April 28 that affected the Peninsula, and also to the key services of the Canary Islands for several hours.
The contract includes a budget of 133,000 euros, and will last two years, with the possibility of extending it for three others. The performance is divided into three lots, which cover the technical centers of Canalink in Güímar (Tenerife), El Goro and Nobel (Gran Canaria), as well as the three strategic enclaves that it has located in three points of Andalusia: Rota, Conil and Santa Justa.
These centers house the essential equipment that keeps the international connectivity network of the archipelago into operation. From its facilities, submarine cables through which calls, data and Internet access are managed.
As for Canalink, it manages an infrastructure that links Canary Islands with Europe, Africa and America, through a network of submarine and land cables, which allows access to more than 35,000 kilometers of fiber optic, as well as more than twenty countries. The company has access to various international network presence points, which implies that it is directly connected to key infrastructure from Europe, Africa and America.
The President of the Cabildo de Tenerife, Rosa Dávilahe explained that this action seeks «guarantee that these systems enter into operation automatically and safely when the electricity supply is interrupted«, In addition to ensuring that they cannot«allow an incidence outside our borders to leave us incommunicado again«.
He Cabildo Innovation and Ri Director, Juan José Martínezhe commented that this action is reinforced «A silent but essential network that allows everything to work even if there is an electricity. We cannot allow an external incidence to again leave us without connection or access to basic services«.
Martínez has also commented on Canalink that «It is a public, neutral and independent operator, created at the initiative of the Cabildo de Tenerife in the framework of the Alixcanarias project. Its mission is to manage and ensure the connectivity of the Canary Islands with the Peninsula through submarine broadband communications, in addition to providing services between islands and outside. Thanks to a privileged geographical location and the different systems to which it offers access, Canalink has become a strategic point in the connections between Africa and Europe«.
