MakaiPlan
Submarine Cable Route Planning Software.
MakaiPlan is the industry-leading software for submarine cable route planning, providing the tools required to design, evaluate, optimize, and document submarine cable routes, from initial route bidding through detailed engineering and installation planning.
Combining sophisticated GIS functionality with specialized engineering tools, MakaiPlan supports the planning of telecommunications and power cable systems, helping engineers develop practical, efficient routes while managing complex geographic and engineering constraints.
Output from MakaiPlan can be imported directly into MakaiPlan Pro and MakaiLay. MakaiLay is the world’s most widely used at-sea cable installation software and has been used to install more than 1 million kilometers of cable since 2000.
Need support with Makai’s subsea cable software products?
Please visit Makai’s new submarine cable software helpdesk at the link below if you have any questions on how to use our products.
What’s New
Features and Capabilities
Integrated GIS Environment
MakaiPlan provides a comprehensive geographic environment for submarine cable route planning. Engineers can combine bathymetry, seabed contours, shorelines, existing cables, navigational charts, survey data, and other relevant geographic information to assess potential routes and identify constraints.
Automatic Route Generator (ARG)
The Automatic Route Generator helps engineers design cable routes based on cost information, user-defined rules, and technical risks. It can assist with navigating complex seabed terrain, avoiding restricted areas, and evaluating alternative routing options.
Cable and In-Line Body Definitions
MakaiPlan supports detailed definitions of submarine cables and associated in-line bodies, including repeaters, splices, and other cable assembly components.
Engineers can specify cable types, manage cable transitions, and define cable lengths and slack requirements. Path rules can be used to automate cable-by-depth functionality, determine appropriate cable types, and apply compliant cable transitions along a route.
Data Import and Export
MakaiPlan provides tools for importing and exporting geographic, route, and engineering data. These capabilities allow engineers to incorporate existing survey information and project datasets, exchange information with other applications, and prepare deliverables for subsequent project stages.
Cost Estimation
MakaiPlan includes costing functionality to help engineers estimate submarine cable project costs across all stages of a project.
Route Position Lists and Single Line Diagrams
MakaiPlan automatically generates key engineering deliverables, including Route Position Lists (RPLs) and Single Line Diagrams (SLDs).
From route planning to at-sea installation
Integrated software workflow
MakaiPlan forms part of an integrated software workflow for submarine cable engineering, with output that can be imported directly into MakaiPlan Pro and MakaiLay. Together, these applications connect route design with installation planning and at-sea operations.
MakaiPlan
Provides the core GIS-based route planning and engineering tools.
MakaiPlan Pro
Extends these capabilities to detailed installation planning and simulation, maintenance planning, and cable repair planning.
MakaiLay
Supports submarine cable installation operations, including cable-laying calculations and operational monitoring.
Modules
Makai provides additional modules to supplement the products above for our clients’ specific applications.
Cable Services
Makai provides a comprehensive set of cable-related services that leverage the expertise of our engineers and the sophisticated tools in our software products. Makai's services include assistance with planning your cable route, simulating your lay, and installing your telecom or power cable at-sea. We also provide submarine cable software training.
Planning
Makai offers submarine cable planning services to assist cable owners and planners in the preliminary stages of cable route planning.
Simulation
Makai uses the advanced simulation features in MakaiPlan Pro to run simulations to answer specific questions about installations of cables and arrays.
Installation
Makai proves software, hardware, and personnel for the control of at-sea operations, and performs post-lay analysis to develop as-laid conditions.
Training
Makai provides both on-site or remote training courses to learn how to use the Makai software suite. Different levels of training fit all levels of operators.
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Need support with Makai’s subsea cable software products?
Please visit Makai’s new submarine cable software helpdesk at the link below if you have any questions on how to use our products.