Baylink Networks awarded contract for Connected Coast build

PRINCE RUPERT, B.C. — Municipally owned telecom company CityWest and the Strathcona Regional District (SRD) announced last week Baylink Networks has been selected as the prime contractor for designing and building the long-awaited Connected Coast project (which we wrote about recently). Based in Port Coquitlam, B.C., Baylink Networks specializes in providing turnkey undersea networks. The Connected Coast project will connect communities to a subsea fibre-optic network that will run from Prince Rupert to Haida Gwaii, down the Sunshine Coast, and around Vancouver Island. The cable will provide 159 landings at rural and remote coastal communities, including 48 Indigenous communities representing...