2001? |
CNSFTC: Aberdeen, Scotland to OSP Forties - Everset - Ula |
? |
CNSFTC (BP) |
? |
OSP = Offshore Platform (Gas or Oil rig) |
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2001 |
EXA North and South. Formerly GTT North and South. Northern: Ainsdale Sands, England - Portrush, Ireland - Herring Cove, Halifax, Nova Scotia: Southern: Ainsdale Sands, England - Baldoyle, Ireland - Herring Cove, Canada - Lynn, Boston, USA |
Tyco SSI |
Hibernia Atlantic purchased the system in 2003 - Worldwide Fibre Inc.
Hibernia was taken over by GTT Communications Inc. on 9 January 2017, and these cables are now GTT North and GTT South.
GTT has agreed to sell its cable network and services to I Squared Capital, the deal to be completed during early 2021. |
Vercors - Iberus - Nordic King - Teneo - Dock Express 20 - Global Mariner - Atlantida |
System 12,200 km. Commissioned in 2000 and in service April 2001. Vercors laid segment D3 3293 km |
10.16 Tb/s. Upgraded to 100 Gb/s per wavelength in 2011 by Huawei Marine Networks. |
2001 |
MED NAUTILUS 1: Catania, Sicily - Chania, Crete - Athens, Greece - Istanbul, Turkey - Pentaskhinos, Cyprus - Haifa, Israel |
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ASN 7000 km. including two entries below |
? |
? |
System 5648 km. 6 fibre pairs. System also includes 81 km of landline. Including two entries below. The link to Istanbul was via a branching unit. |
3.84 Tb/s. Upgraded by Infinera in 2011, 2012, 2013, to 10 Gb/s, 40 Gb/s, 100 Gb/s x 64 wavelengths per fibre pair respectively. |
2001 |
MED NAUTILUS 2: Catania, Sicily - Haifa, Israel |
See above |
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See above |
See above |
2001 |
MED NAUTILUS 3: Catania, Sicily - Tel Aviv, Israel |
See above |
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See above |
See above |
2001 |
AJC: Oxford Falls & Sydney, Australia - Tanguisson & Tumon, Guam - Shima & Maruyama, Japan |
Ocean Cable Co supplied all the cable - Tyco Telecommunications |
Australia-Japan Ltd - Global Network Services Ltd - NTT Communications - SOFTBANK Telecom Corp - Telstra - Verizon |
Fresnel - Subaru |
System 12224 km. Fresnel laid 3500 km. Subaru laid 924 km. System Installer France Telecom and KDD |
320 Gb/s initially. Maximum 2.56 Tb/s. Upgraded by Ciena in 2012 |
2001 |
TGN Atlantic: (Formerly VSNL Transatlantic, formerly TYCO Transatlantic). Avon, USA - Brean, England: Manasquan, USA - Saunton Sands, England |
Tyco SSI |
Tata Communications |
? |
System 12935 km. Landings in UK and USA are linked. Renamed following the takeover of Tyco cables by VSNL. Again renamed after VSNL was merged with Tata Communications |
2.56 Tb/s. Upgraded to 100 Gb/s per wavelength in 2013 by Ciena |
2001 |
TAT-14: Tuckerton - Manasquan, USA - Blaabjerg, Denmark - Norden, Germany - Katwijk, Holland - St Valery en Caux, France - Pentewen - Widemouth Bay, England - Tuckerton, USA |
Ocean Cable Co (part) |
AT&T - BT - DTAG - KPN - France Telecom |
Cable Innovator - Cable Endeavour - Bold Endurance - Wave Sentinel - Subaru - Maersk Recorder - Maersk Forwarder - Sir Eric Sharp - Agile - Teliri - Fresnel - Vercors |
System 15428 km. Route survey carried out by Fugro. Fresnel laid segments K3 and L 2855 km, of which 324 km was buried. Vercors laid segment G2 3355 km. Subaru laid 5414 km. |
1.87 Tb/s. Four fiber pairs.
As of 2015, after two upgrades, TAT-14 is listed as having a total design capacity of 9.38Tb/s and a total system (lit) capacity of 3.15Tb/s.
WFS 15 December 2020 |
2001 |
FA 1: NORTH: Northport, USA - Sennen Cove, England. Porthcurno, England - Plerin, France. SOUTH: Plerin, France - Island Park, USA |
ASN 12570 km |
Reliance Globalcom |
Fresnel |
System 14500 km. 6 fibre pairs. Includes land based networks. Fresnel laid LAY 1, 550 km of which 20 km was buried. A buried land cable runs from Sennen Cove via Skewjack Cable Station to Porthcurno. Reliance Infocomm bought the whole FLAG network for $211 million in 2004 |
4.6875 Tb/s. Upgraded to 10 Gb/s per wavelength by Infinera in 2010 and 2011 |
2001 |
Global West Network USA |
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Global Photon |
? |
System 1350 km. |
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2001 |
ARCOS 1- Phase 1, 2001, Phase 2, 2002:- Hollywood, Florida, - Nassau - Cat Island - Crooked Island, Bahamas - Providenciales, Turks & Caicos Islands - Puerto Plata - Punta Cana, Dominican R - San Juan, Puerto Rico - Willemstad, Curacao - Punto Fijo, Venezuela - Cartagena, Rio Hachha, Colombia - Maria Chiqita, Ustopo, Panama - Puerto Lemon, Costa Rica - Puerto Cabezas, Bluefields, Nicaragua - Puerto Lempira, Trujillo, Peuto Cortez, Honduras - Puerto Barrios, Guatemala - Ladyville, Belize - Tulum, Cancun, Mexico - North Miami Beach, Florida, USA. |
Norddeutsche Seekabelwerke 6807 km. - Tyco Submarine Systems Ltd (TSSL) 1994 km. |
Alestra - AT&T - Axtel, Mexico - BTC, Bahamas - BTL, Belize - CANTV, Venezuela - Codetel - Tricom, Domican Republic - Colombus Networks - Enitel, Nicaragua - Hondutel, Honduras - ICE, Costa Rica - Impsat, USA - Internexa - Orbinet SA, Colombia - Racsa, Costa Rica - Telecarrier, Panama - Ultracom, Puerto Rico - UTS, Curacao - Verizon |
? |
System 8201 km including Phase 2 (2002). Route survey carried out by Fugro. |
15 Gb/s SDH with WDM on two repeatered segments. Maximum 960 Gb/s. Upgraded by Xtera to 80 Gb/s and maximum 1 Tb/s + |
2001 |
NACS, North Asia Cable System: China - Japan |
ASN - Fujitsu |
Level 3 |
? |
System 3650 km |
2.52 Tb/s. 10 Gb/s x 42 wl x 6 fibre pairs |
2001 |
Cook Strait, New Zealand: Levin, North Island - Nelson, South Island |
? |
TNZ |
? |
System 200 km. |
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2001 |
AQUALINK: Auckland, North Island - Christchurch, South Island |
Ericsson. North Island cables carried by Sea Ranger. South Island cables carried by freighter to Wellington |
Telstra - Saturn |
Sea Ranger:- Highland Fortress was purchased from Gulf Offshore and converted for cable laying on Teesside, UK and renamed Sea Ranger |
System 734 km submarine cable plus 224 km landlines. Route as follows:- Auckland (Onehunga) - Raglan - New Plymouth 120 + 166 km submarine cable: New Plymouth - Wanganui - 200 km landline: Wanganui -Waikanae 109 km submarine cable: Paraparaumu - Titahi Bay 30 km submarine cable: Wellington (Lyall Bay) - Kaikoura 169 km submarine cable: Kaikoura - Oara 24 km landline: Oara - Christchurch (Waimairi) 140 km submarine cable |
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2001 |
EAST ASIA CROSSING: Hong Kong - Pa Li, Taiwan - Shindu Ri, Korea - Ajigaura - Shima, Japan - Pa Li, Taiwan - Hong Kong |
KDD-SCS main contractor - Ocean Cable Co supplied all the cable |
Pacnet |
Bold Endurance - Cable Innovator - Cable Installer - Iris (3) - Vercors |
System 19500 km. Iris (3) - Cable Installer carried out route clearance work. Route survey carried out by C&C Technologies. Vercors laid segments D, E, F, and BU2 863 km. |
Maximum 30.72 Tb/s |
2001 |
C2C Chikura - Shima, Japan - Pusan, Korea - Nanhui, China - Tanshui - Fangshan, Taiwan - Hong Kong - Changi, Singapore - Philippines - Chikura, Japan: Hong Kong - Philippines |
Ocean Cable Co (Segments 4-5). TYCO |
Pacnet |
Fresnel - Maersk Recorder (1674 km) |
System 17000 km. Fresnel laid 1600 km of which 1300 km was buried. East Asia Crossing (EAC) and C2C were acquired by Pacnet and combined into one system EAC-C2C in 2007. |
Maximum 30.72 Tb/s |
2001 |
FLAG North Asia Loop:- Tong Fuk, Hong Kong - Pusan, Korea - Wada, Japan |
? |
Global Cloud Exchange |
? |
System 10,000 km including entry below. Global Cloud Exchange formerly Reliance Globalcom owns 3 fibre pairs titled FLAG North Asia Loop. The three remaining fibre pairs known as REACH North Asia Loop are owned as follows 1 pair by Telstra, 1 pair by PCCW and the remaining pair is jointly owned by PCCW and Telstra |
320 Gb/s upgradeable to 3.8 Tb/s. Upgraded to 40 Gb/s per wavelength by Ciena in 2011. |
2001 |
REACH North Asia Loop:- Tong Fuk, Hong Kong - Toucheng, Taiwan - Wada, Japan |
? |
PCCW - Telstra |
? |
See above |
320 Gb/s upgradeable to 3.8 Tb/s. Upgraded to 40 Gb/s per wavelength by Ciena in 2011. |
2001 |
SAM-1: Puerto Barrios, Guatemala - Boca Raton, Florida, USA - Isla Verde, Puerto Rico - Barranquilla, Colombia - Fortaleza - Salvador - Rio de Janeiro - Santos, Brazil - Las Toninas, Argentina: Valparaiso - Arica, Chile - Lurin - Mancora, Peru - Salinas, Ecuador - Puerto San Jose, Guatemala |
Tyco Telecommunications |
Telefonica |
? |
Festoon system with a total length of 19,964 km. Route survey carried out by C&C Technologies |
160 Gb/s initially. Maximum capacity 1.92 Tb/s. Colombia extension; Initial 40 Gb/s., Maximum 960 Gb/s. Ecuador extension; Initial 10 Gb/s., Maximum 480 Gb/s. Upgraded by Infinera in 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 10 Gb/s then 40 Gb/s then 100 Gb/s per wavelength |
2001 |
Bahamas Internet Cable System (BICS): Boca Raton, USA - Hawksbill - Riding Point - Crown Haven - Sandy Point - Current - Caves Point - Hawksbill, Bahamas - Spanish River Park, Florida, USA |
? |
Caribbean Crossing |
? |
System 1100 km |
Initial capacity 10 Gb/s Maximum 12 Tb/s |
2001 |
BS-FOCS (Black Sea Fibre Optic Cable System): Varna, Bulgaria - Odessa, Ukraine - Novorossijsk Russia |
ASN 1300 km - Tyco SSI |
BTC, Bulgaria - CyTA, Cyprus - UKRETELECOM, Ukraine - Westelcom, Russia - OTE, Greece - Armentel, Armenia. Later joined by Deutsch Telekom - AT&T, USA - KDD, Japan - CT, Croatia |
Maersk Fighter |
System 1300 km. 2 fibre pairs |
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2001 |
BALALINK: Palma de Mallorca - Valencia, Spain |
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IslaLink |
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System 274 km |
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2001 |
KATTEGAT 2:- Lyngas - Vestero - Osterby, Denmark - Skalvik, Sweden |
? |
TDC |
? |
System 75 km. |
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2001 |
FNAL/RNAL: Flag North Asian Loop/Reach North Asian Loop: Eastern Leg:- Tong Fuk, Hong Kong - Pusan, Korea - Wada, Japan |
? |
PCCW Global owns the RNAL cable (formerly Reach and Level 3 Communications) - Reliance Globalcom (formerly Flag Telecom) owns FNAL cable |
? |
System 2 x 5000 km. 6 fibre pairs per cable each company operating 3 fibre pairs per cable. Includes entry below. Eastern Leg RFS July 2001, Western Leg May 2002. |
320 Gb/s upgradeable to 3.8 Tb/s. FNAL upgraded to 40 Gb/s per wavelength and RNAL upgraded to 100 Gb/s by Ciena in 2011 |
2001 |
FNAL/RNAL: Flag North Asian Loop/Reach North Asian Loop: Western Leg:- Tong Fuk, Hong Kong - Toucheng, Taiwan - Wada, Japan |
? |
See above |
? |
See above |
See above |
2001 |
GlobalConnect 2 (GC2):- Kungsbacka, Sweden - Saeby, Denmark |
? |
GlobalConnect |
? |
System 95 km. |
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2002 |
APCN 2: Kitaibaraki - Chikura, Japan - Tanshui, Taiwan - Shantou, China - Batangas, Philippines - Katong, Singapore - Kuantan, Malaysia - Lantau, Hong Kong - Chongming, China - Kitaibaraki, Japan |
Ocean Cable Co |
China Telecom - Chungwa Telecom - CTM - France Telecom - KDDI - Korean Telecom - NTT Communications - PLDT - Reach NHK - Singtel - Telekom Malaysia |
Cable Retriever - Bold Endurance - Fu Lai - Asean Restorer - Maersk Recorder - Maersk Repeater - Maersk Responder - Maersk Reliance - Subaru - Kuroshio Maru - Cable Installer. Barges, Networker - Elbe - Chin Ann 3 |
System 19000 km. C&C Technologies carried out the route survey. Maersk Recorder laid 1250 km. Subaru 3759 km. Kuroshio Maru 1250 km. |
160 Gb/s initially. To be upgraded by NEC in 2014 to 100 Gb/s per wavelength. |
2002 |
Ar, Gotland - Ut, Sweden |
? |
AB Stokab |
? |
System 135 km. |
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2002 |
TGN Northern Europe: (Formerly VSNL Northern Europe, formerly Tyco NE): Hunmanby, England - Eemshaven, Holland |
Tyco SSI |
Tata Communications |
? |
578 km. |
3.84 Tb/s (Maximum capacity) |
2002 |
TGN Western Europe: (Formerly VSNL Western Europe, formerly Tyco WE): Brean, England - Seixal, Portugal: Saunton Sands, England - Sopelana, Spain |
Tyco SSI |
Tata Communications |
? |
System 2265 + 1434 km. |
3.84 Tb/s (Maximum capacity) |
2002 |
SAT 3/WASC: Melkbosstrand, South Africa - Luanda, Angola - Libreville, Gabon - Douala, Cameroon - Lagos, Nigeria - Cotonou, Benin - Accra, Ghana - Abidjan, Ivory Coast - Dakar, Senegal - Alta Vista, Gran Canaria - Chipiona, Spain - Sesimbra, Portugal |
ASN Calais 14000 km. |
Telkom SA - Telefonica - Angola Telekom - Ghana Telecom - Nitel - Gabon PT - Benin PT - Marconi - Sonatel - Camtel - CIT |
? |
System 14350 km |
Phase 1: 20 Gb/s. Phase 2: 40 Gb/s. Maximum 120 Gb/s |
2002 |
ALPAL 2: El Djemila, Algeria - Ses Covetes, Majorca |
Pirelli |
Telefonica - France Telecom - APT |
Maersk Responder |
System 320 km. Installation carried out by Global Marine Systems Ltd. |
4 x 2.5 Gb/s. Maximum capacity 80 Gb/s |
2002 |
SAFE Cape Town - Durban, South Africa - St Paul, Reunion - Baie Jacotet, Mauritius - Cochin, India - Penang, Malaysia |
Tycom SCS main contractor |
France Telecom - Mauritius Telecom - MCI International - Telecom Malaysia - Tata Communications - Telekom Communications International |
Vercors |
System 13500 km. Vercors laid segments S8B, S9B, S10B, 3166 km |
Phase 1: 20 Gb/s. Phase 2: 40 Gb/s. Maximum 440 Gb/s |
2002 |
i2i Tuas, Singapore - Chennai, India |
? |
Bharti Airtel |
? |
System 3200 km. 8 fibre pairs |
8 fibre pairs x 105 wavelengths per fibre pair x 100 Gb/s per wavelength |
2002 |
TGN Pacific: (Formerly VSNL Transpacific): Emi, Japan - Nedonna Beach, Oregon: Toyohashi, Japan - Piti, Guam: Hermosa Beach, California, - Twin Rocks, Oregon: Toyohashi, Japan - Twin Rocks, Oregon |
Tyco SSI |
Tata Communications |
? |
System 8338 + 2741 + 2064 + 8652 km. Renamed following takeover of Tyco cables by VSNL. Renamed following the merger of VSNL with Tata |
5.12 Tb/s |
2002 |
Kami Hachiman - Okinoshima, Japan |
? |
NTT |
? |
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2002 |
KJCN, Korea Japan Cable Network: (1) Pusan, Korea - Kitakyushu, Japan: (2) Pusan - Fukoka, Japan |
ASN - Fujitsu |
Softbank Telecom - NTT Communications - KT Corporation - KEPCO |
Maersk Recorder |
System 500 km. unrepeatered |
2.88 Tb/s. 10 Gb/s x 24 wl x 12 fibre pairs |
2002 |
Subcan Link 1 & 2:- Piedra Santa, Gran Canaria - Las Caletillas, Pico del Teide, Canary Islands |
? |
Cable Submarine de Canarias |
? |
System 143 km., 136 km. 2 cables laid over this route |
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2003 |
Crozet Islands |
CEA |
UNO |
René Descartes |
System of hydrophones with satellite link for use by UNO |
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2003 |
APOLLO: Widemouth Bay, Bude, England - Brookhaven, USA: Lannion, France - Manasquan, USA |
ASN |
C&W - Alcatel - Apollo SCS Ltd |
Ile de Batz - Ile de Brehat - Ile de Sein - Skandi Neptune |
System North route 6200 km., 160 repeaters, 35 equalisers. South route 6530 km., 175 repeaters, 35 equalisers. Skandi Neptune laid the European shelf section on the North route 847 km. Ile de Brehat 4400 km main lay on the North route. Ile de Sein European section on the South route 1912 km. The remainder was laid by Ile de Batz |
4 fibre pairs. Initial capacity 10Gb/s per wavelength. Upgraded to 40Gb/s per wavelength by Alcatel-Lucent Submarine Networks in 2012. Upgraded in May 2014 to 100Gb/s by Alcatel-Lucent Submarine Networks. Maximum capacity 25Tb/s. |
2003 |
Bass Strait 2: Inverloch, Victoria, Australia - Stanley, Tasmania |
ASN Calais |
Telstra |
Ile de Batz |
System 240 km. |
2.5 Gb/s |
2003 |
CAM Ring (Includes entry below): Ponta Delgada, Azores - Funchal, Madeira |
ASN Calais |
PTC |
Ile de Sein |
System 1135 km. |
16 x 10 Gb/s SDH |
2003 |
Funchal - Porto Santo, Madeira |
ASN Calais |
PTC |
Ile de Sein |
System 85 km unrepeatered. |
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2003 |
Meike - Sawada, Japan |
? |
NTT |
Subaru |
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2003 |
SAS 1: Port Sudan, Sudan - Jeddah, Saudi Arabia |
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STC Saudi Arabia |
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System 333 km. 4 fibre pairs |
1.28 Tb/s |
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? |
SILK ROUTE Phase 1: Athens, Greece - Padova, Italy: Athens - Crete |
Pirelli |
? |
? |
System 1900 km. |
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? |
INDOSAT: East Java - Jakarta - Bandung - Sumatra |
Pirelli |
? |
? |
System 1376 km including landlines. |
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Sumatra - Batum |
Pirelli |
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System 345 km. |
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2004 |
Breivika, Norway - Hotellneset, Svalbard. 2 cables Segment 1 and 2 |
Tyco |
Owner: Norwegian Space Centre
Operator: Telenor
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Cable Innovator - Maersk Recorder |
System:- Each cable consists of 8 fibre pairs, Only one pair is required at present and only Segment 1 cable is used Segment 2 acting as back up. Segment l:-1375 km with 172 km buried, 20 repeaters. Cable Innovator commenced laying from Breivika on 26 July 2003 and Maersk Recorder from Hotellneset on 21 July 2003. The final splice took place midway between the terminals on 1 August 2003. Segment 2:- 1339 km with 173 km buried, 20 repeaters. Cable Innovator commenced laying from Breivika on 4 August 2003 and Maersk Recorder from Hotellneset on 1 August 2003- The final splice took place midway between the terminals on 13 August 2003. The cable (Segment 1) came into service in January 2004 |
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2004 |
Breivika, Harstad, Norway. 2 cables Segment 1A and 2A both repeaterless |
Tyco |
Owner: Norwegian Space Centre Operator: Telenor |
Cable Innovator - Maersk Recorder |
System Segment 1 A 61 km. Segment 2A 74 km. Both cables are a combination of land and submarine cable, The cable (Segment 1 A) was brought into service in January 2004 |
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2004 |
UAE - Iran |
Pirelli |
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System 350 km, plus 50 km of landline |
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2004 |
TGN TIC: Tuas, Singapore - Chennai, India |
Tyco |
Tata Communications |
Tyco Durable |
System 3200 km. Originally a link between Mumbai and Chennai was planned but was not carried out |
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2004 |
Doha - Halul, Qatar - Das Island - Abu Dhabi, UAE |
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Etilsat |
System 200 km. |
2 x 10 Gb/s |
2004 |
TELAPA: La Gaviota, Las Palmas - El Socorro, Tenerife |
? |
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System 130 km. |
2 x 10 Gb/s |
2004 |
EASTLINK: Graham Pond, Prince Edward Island - Port Hood, Cape Breton Island, Canada |
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Ile de Batz |
System 54 km., the whole cable being buried. Installation was carried out by IT International Telecom |
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2004 |
COGIM: Cable Optique; La Gaspsie - Iles de la Madeleine, Canada |
Nexans, Norway |
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Ile de Batz |
System 2 cables, 220 and 216 km. Both cables were buried. Installation was carried out by IT International Telecom |
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2004 |
Okinawa Hontou - Myakojima - Ishigakijima, Japan |
? |
NTT |
? |
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2004 |
Ventspils, Latvia - Farosund, Stavsnas, Gotland, Sweden |
Tyco Telecommunications |
Baltcom Fiber SIA - AB Stokab |
? |
System 175 km. |
2.5 Gb/s |
2004 |
SMPR-1: St. Maarten - Isla Verde, Puerto Rico |
? |
SMITCOMS |
? |
System 375 km |
Initial capacity 2.5 G/bs. Maximum capacity 20 G/bs |
2004 |
ALASKA UNITED WEST: Warrenton, USA - Ketchikan - Whittier, Alaska |
Tyco Telecommunications - Ocean Cable Co. supplied all the cable |
GCI |
Global Sentinel |
System 2500 km |
Initial 10 Gb/s. Maximum 640 Gb/s |
2004 |
GWEN: Bari, Italy - Corfu, Greece. (2 cables over this route) |
? |
OTE |
? |
System 647 km |
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2004 |
SMPR-1: San Juan, Puerto Rico - St Martin, Netherlands Antilles |
? |
Smitcoms |
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System 375 km |
2.5 Gb/s |
2004 |
VMSCS: St George's Bay, Malta - Catania, Sicily |
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Vodafone Malta |
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System 250 km |
6 x 10 Gb/s |
2004 |
FARICE: Funningsfjordur, Faroe Islands - Seydisfjordur, Iceland - Dunnet Bay, Scotland |
Pirelli |
Farice Ltd - Iceland Telecom Ltd |
Pertinacia |
System 1400 km. Route survey carried out by Fugro. |
2 x 10 Gb/s. Upgraded to 100 Gb/s per wavelength by Ciena in 2013 |
2004 |
INGRID:- Havelet Bay, Guernsey - Greve de Leq - Archirondel, Jersey - Surville, France |
? |
? |
? |
System 64 km. |
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2005 |
8 Mile Rock, Grand Bahama - Alice Town, Bimini |
Norddeutsche Seekabelwerke |
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Cable Innovator |
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2005 |
Basslink: McGaurans Beach, Victoria - Four Mile Bluff, Tasmania |
Prysmian Cables & Systems supplied the cable. Siemens supplied the plant |
National Grid Australia |
Giulio Verne |
System 298 km 400 kV power cable. See BASSLINK 2009 for description of fibre optic cable within this cable |
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2005 |
SEA ME WE 4 France - Singapore |
ASN - Fujitsu |
Singtel, Singapore - Telekom Malaysia Berhad - CAT Telecom, Thailand - Barti Infotel Ltd., India - VSNL, India - Bangladesh T&T - Sri Lanka Telecom Ltd - Pakistan Telecommunication Co. Ltd. - ETISALAT, UAE - Saudi Telecom Co. - Telecom Egypt - Tunisie Telecom - Algeria Telecom - Telecom Italia Sparkle S.p.A - Feance Telecom - MCI, UK |
Niwa - Descartes |
System 20000 km. Melaka, Salun, Cox's Bazar, Colombo, Karachi, Fujairah, Bizerte and Annaba were linked to the main cable by branching units. |
1.28 Tb/s. Upgraded by Alcatel-Lucent Submarine Networks and Fujitsu in 2011 to 40 Gb/s per wavelength |
2005 |
SEA ME WE 4: SEGMENT S1; Tuas, Singapore - Melaka, Malaysia - Satun, Thailand - Cox's Bazaar, Bangladesh - Chennai, India - Colombo, Sri Lanka - Mumbai, India |
Fujitsu 8,000 km and all repeaters |
See above |
Niwa (Formerly Global Link) |
CS Niwa laid the shore ends and carried out burial work at Mumbai |
1.28 Tb/s. Maximum Capacity upgraded to 2.4 Tb/s |
2005 |
SEA ME WE 4: SEGMENT S2; Mumbai, India - Karachi, Pakistan - Fujairah, UAE - Jeddah, Saudi Arabia - Suez, Egypt |
ASN 5500 km and all repeaters |
See above |
Niwa |
System 5500 km. Inaugrated 13 December 2005 |
See above |
2005 |
SEA ME WE 4: SEGMENT S3: Landines Suez - Alexandria, Egypt |
ASN |
See above |
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See above |
2005 |
SEA ME WE 4: SEGMENT 4; Alexandria, Egypt - Palermo, Italy - Bizerte, Tunisia - Annaba, Algeria - Marseille, France |
ASN 6500 km cable - Fujitsu all repeaters |
See above |
Rene Descartes |
System 6500 km |
See above |
2005 |
Med Cable: Marseille, France - Annaba - Algiers - Oran, Algeria |
? |
Orascom Telecom Holding |
? |
System 1215 km |
2 x 10 Gb/s |
2005 |
DMCS: Dumai, Indonesia - Melaka, Malaysia |
NEC main contractors - Ocean Cable Co supplied the cable |
Telekom Malaysia - PT Telekom |
? |
System 148 km repeaterless. |
Initial capacity 20 Gb/s. Maximum capacity 320 Gb/s |
2005 |
JANNA:- Cable 1:- Mazara del Vallora, Sicily - Cagliari, Sardinia. Cable 2:- Olbia, Sardinia - Civitavecchia, Italy |
? |
Regione Sardegne - Interoute - Wind Italy - Tiscali |
? |
System 634 km. |
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2006 |
BLCS: Bharat Lanka Cable System; Mount Lavinia, Sri Lanka - Tuticorin, India |
NEC (Prime contractor) Ocean Cable Co. supplied the cable |
Sri Lanka Telekom - BSNL India |
? |
System 338 km |
10 G/bs |
2006 |
HUGO: Porthcurno, England - Pembroke, Guernsey: Saints Bay, Guernsey - Lannion, France |
ASN |
C&W |
Tyco Reliance |
Porthcurno - Guernsey section laid 3 - 24 July 2006 and Guernsey - France 27 July - 8 August 2006. AHTS Granit carried out route clearance. Cable buried throughout. Cable is a recovered section of the GEMINI South cable laid in 1997. |
60 + 55 Gb/s SDH. . |
2006 |
HUGO East: Jersey - Guernsey - France |
? |
C&W |
? |
Utilises fibre optic cable within a power cable laid previously. |
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2006 |
VENUS: Victoria Experimental Network Under the Sea |
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University of Victoria, Canada |
Wave Venture |
System 4 km. Scheme to put the ocean floor on line at www.venus.uvic.ca |
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2006 |
FIBRALINK: Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic - Kaliko, Haiti - Bull Bay, Kingston, Jamaica: Kingston - Ocho Rios - Montego Bay, Jamaica |
ASN |
Colombus Networks |
IT Intrepid |
System 2438 km. 2 fibre pairs. |
320 Gb/s |
2006 |
APNG 2: Sydney, Australia - Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea |
ASN |
Telikom PNG - Telstra |
Ile de Re |
System 1800 km. This was part of the PACRIM WEST cable which was withdrawn from service in 2005. Ile de Re first recovered 300 km of cable which was tested and found to be in servicable condition. So the main recovery was undertaken. This started just to the south of Guam to a point off Rockampton, Queensland where the cable was cut. The Sydney end of the cable was then spliced to the recovered cable and Ile de Re headed for Ela Beach, Port Moresby. |
1.12 Tb/s |
2006 |
Tuticorin, India - Mt Lavinia, Sri Lanka |
NEC (Prime Contractor) |
Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd, India - Sri Lanka Telecom |
Subaru |
System 323 km. Initial capacity 40Gbps. Maximum capacity 960Gbps. |
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2006 |
Estlink: Helsinki, Finland - Talin, Estonia |
? |
ABB - Eesti Energia - Latvenergo - Lietuvos Energia - Pohjolan Voima - Helsinki Energia |
Sovereign |
System: 2 high voltage cables each 77 k,m laid in parallel |
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2006 |
ANTILLES CROSSING: Hans Bluff, Br Virgin Islands - Port Castries, St Lucia - Bridgetown, Barbados |
Tyco Telecommunications |
Antilles Crossing - Barbados Light & Power - Leucadia, Telebarbados |
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System 972 km |
Initial capacity 40 Gb/s. Maximum capacity 80 Gb/s |
2006 |
Colombo, Sri Lanka - Hulhumalé, India |
? |
Dhiraagu (Dhivehi Raajjeyge Gulhun Private Ltd.) - Sri Lanka Telecom |
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System 237 km |
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2006 |
JASUKA:- CABLE 1: Bandar Bukit Tinggi, Malaysia - Dumai - Pekanbaru - Padang - Sibolga - Medan - Teping Tinggi - Bandar Bukit Tinggi, Indonesia. CABLE 2: Dumai - Batam - Pontianak - Tanjung Pandan - Tanjung Pakis - Jakarta - Bandar Lampung - Baturaja - Palembang - Jambi - Pekanbaru, Indonesia. CABLE 3: Tangjun Pandan to a branching unit on CABLE 2 between Palembang and Jambi. |
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NEC main contractors - Ocean Cable Co supplied the cable |
PT Telekom |
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System 10860 km |
Initial 20 Gb/s. Maximum 320 Gb/s. To be upgraded by Nokia Siemens Networks to 40 Gb/s per wavelength |
2006 |
RJCN: Nakhodka, Russia - Naoetsu, Japan |
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Rostelcom |
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System 1800 km consisting of two cables |
640 Gb/s |
2006 |
TIS: Songkhla, Thailand - Batam, Indonesia |
Tyco Telecommunications - Ocean Cable Co. supplied all the cable |
CAT Telecom - PT Telekom, Singtel |
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System 1100 km |
30 Gb/s |
2006 |
Chennai, India - Khulna, Bangladesh |
? |
? |
? |
System 1450 km |
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2006 |
Kuwait City, Kuwait - Soroosh Platform - Kharg Island - Ganaveh, Iran |
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Telecommunications Infrastructure Company of Iran - Kuwait Ministry of Communications |
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System 380 km. 6 fibre pairs |
2.5 Gb/s |
2006 |
Bahamas Domestic Submarine Network (BDSNi): Hawksbill, Grand Bahama - Sandy Point, Great Abaco Island - Governors Harbour, Eleuthera - Cat Island - Cockburn Town, San Salvador Island - Crooked Island - Mayaguana Island - Matthew Town, Inagua, Bahamas - Port-au- Prince, Haiti: Hawksbill - Nassau - Fresh Creek, Andros Island: Nassau - Governors Harbour - Georgetown, Exuma - Port Nelson, Rum Cay - Clarence Town, Long Island - Cockburn Town, Bahamas: Port Nelson - Duncan Town, Ragged Island, Bahamas |
Tyco Telecommunications |
Bahamas Telecommunications Company (BTC) |
? |
System 2817 km. Link to Haiti was severed in the earthquake of 2010. |
System was upgraded by Huawei Marine Optix in 2014. |
2006 |
FALCON: Suez, Egypt - Aqaba, Jordan - Jeddah, Saudi Arabia - Port Sudan, Sudan - Al Hudaydah, Al Ghaydah, Yemen - Al Seeb,Khasab, Oman - Dubai - Sumaisma, Qatar - Manama, Bahrain - Al Khobar, Saudi Arabia - Kuwait City, Kuwait - Bandar Abbas, Chabahar, Iran - Mumbai, India |
Alcatel |
Reliance Globalcom |
? |
System 12000 km. 6 fibre pairs. Oman - India section opened for service December 2005. The remainder September 2006 |
2.56 Tb/s |
2006 |
Southern Caribbean Fibre:- CABLE 1 SCF:- San Juan, Peurto Rico - St. Croix, US Virgin Islands - Rodney Bay, St Lucia - Kingstown, St. Vincent - St. George's, Grenada - Chaguaramas, Trinidad and Tobago: Connection to Needham's Point, Barbados via branching unit. CABLE 2 ANTILLES CROSSING:- From BU on SCF - St. Louis, St. Martin - Gustavia, St. Barthélemy - Basseterre, St. Kitts and Nevis - Baillif - Baie-Mauhault, Guadeloupe - Canefield, Dominica - Le Lemantin, Martinique - Rodney Bay, St. Lucia: Link via a branching unit from Baillif, Guadeloupe to St. John's, Antigua and Barbuda |
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Alcatel Lucent SCF - Tyco ANTILLES CROSSING |
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Digicel |
? |
System SCF 2100 km., repeaterless, with 4 to 8 fibre pairs. ANTILLES CROSSING 900 km., repeatered, with 2 fibre pairs. |
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2006 |
TWA-1: Al Seeb, Oman - Karachi, Pakistan. Fujairah, UAE linked via a branching unit |
? |
Trans-World Associates |
? |
System 1241 km |
1.28 Tb/s |
2006 |
GlobalConnect 3 (GC3) Korsor - Nybor, Denmark |
? |
GlobalConnect |
? |
System 19 km. |
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2006 |
GlobalConnect-KPN:- Gedser, Denmark - Rostock, Germany |
? |
GlobalConnect |
? |
System 43 km. |
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2007 |
Sri Lanka - Male, Maldives |
NEC (Prime Contractor) |
Dhiraagu (Dhivehi Raajjeyge Gulhun Private Ltd.) - Sri Lanka Telecom |
? |
System 1100 km., including connections to four other islands |
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2007 |
Sovetskaya Gavan, Russia - Ilinskij, Sakhalin Island |
? |
TransTeleCom |
Fu Hai (Formerly Maersk Repeater) |
Global Marine Systems and Sino British Submarine Systems carried out the installation |
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2007 |
La Gomera - El Hierro, Canary Islands |
Tyco Telecommunications |
Telefonica de Espaa |
Teneo |
System 145 km. |
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2007 |
EC LINK: Willemstad, Curacao - Chaguaramas, Trinidad and Tobago |
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Columbus Networks |
? |
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Initial capacity 1.875 Tb/s. Maximum capacity 7.2 Tb/s. 12 fibre pairs x 60 wavelengths per fibre pair. Upgraded to 100 wavelengths per fibre pair in 2016 by TE Subcom |
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2007 |
ATLAS OFFSHORE: Asilah, Morocco - Marseilles, France |
Alcatel Lucent Sumarine Networks |
Maroc Telecom |
? |
System 1634 km |
Initial capacity 40 Gb/s. Maximum capacity 320 Gb/s |
2007 |
BRCS: Sungai Rengit - Batam, Indonesia |
? |
Excelcom |
? |
System 63 km |
10 Gb/s |
2007 |
WARF: Cochin, India - Hulhumalé, India |
ASN |
WARF Telecom International |
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System 1100 km. Route survey carried out by Fugro |
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2007 |
NEPTUNE; New Jersey - Long Island |
Prysmian (Italy) |
Powerbridge |
Giulio Verne |
System 51 miles plus 14 miles of land cable. 660MW power cable |
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2007 |
North Salina, Bonaire - Willemstad, Curacao |
? |
C&W |
? |
? |
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2007 |
GEMINI BERMUDA:- Manasquan, USA - Devonshire, Bermuda |
Standard Telephones & Cables Ltd., Southampton. |
C&W |
? |
Part of the GEMINI South cable was recovered and laid over this route |
60 + 55 Gb/s SDH. . |
2007 |
JERRY NEWTON:- North Salina, Bonaire - Willemstad, Curacao |
? |
C&W Networks |
? |
? |
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2007 |
GEMINI BERMUDA:- Manasquan, USA - St. Davids, Devonshire, Bermuda |
Standard Telephones & Cables Ltd., Southampton. |
C&W |
? |
System 1287 km. Part of the GEMINI South cable was recovered and laid over this route |
60 + 55 Gb/s SDH. . |
2007 |
KKFL: Kodiak Kenai Fibre Link:- Anchorage - Seward - Narrow Cape - Kodiak - Homer - Kenai Anchorage, Alaska |
ASN |
Kenai Kodiak Cable Company |
Maersk Defender |
System 971 km. 4 fibre pairs. Repeaterless cable. Laying commenced July 2006 and was completed by December |
Initial 2.5 Gb/s. Maximum 10 Gb/s. Upgraded by Infinera in 2010 to 10 Gb/s per wavelength |
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2008 |
HSCS: Hokkaido-Sakahalin Cable System: Hokkaido, Japan - Nevelsk, Sakahalin Island, Russia |
NEC prime contractors - Ocean Cable Co manufactured the cable |
NTT Com - TransTeleCom |
Subaru |
System 1800 km. Work carried out from July 8 to November 26 2007. Brought into service 3 July 2008 |
640 Gb/s |
2008 |
Colombia-Florida Subsea Fibre, CFX-1: Boca Raton, USA - Morant Point, Jamaica - Cartagena, Colombia |
Tyco Telecommunications |
C&W Networks |
? |
Sytem 2423 km |
Initial 110 Gb/s. Maximum 2 Tb/s + |
2008 |
MATRIX CABLE SYSTEM:- Batam, Indonesia - Changi, Singapore - Jakarta, Indonesia |
Tyco Telecommunications |
Matrix Networks Pte. Ltd. |
Wave Mercury - Cable Networker (barge) |
System 1350 km. Route survey completed August 2007. Extension to Perth, Australia to be installed at a later date. |
4 fibre pairs each carrying 64 x 10 Gb/s. Maximum capacity 2.6 Tb/s DWDM. |
2008 |
GONDWANA 1: Nouméa, New Caledonia - Sydney, Australia |
Alcatel |
OPT, New Caledonia |
Ile de Ré |
Work is scheduled to be completed by Spring 2008 |
Initial 2 x 10 Gb/s. Upgraded to 4 x 10 Gb/s. Maximum 128 x 10 Gb/s |
2008 |
GONDWANA 1: Poindimié, New Caledonia - Mouli Island - Lifou, Loyalty Islands |
Alcatel |
OPT, New Caledonia |
Ile de Ré |
Repeaterless cable. Work is scheduled to be completed by Spring 2008 |
Initial 2 x 10 Gb/s. Upgraded to 4 x 10 Gb/s. Maximum 128 x 10 Gb/s |
2008 |
TPE (Trans Pacific Express) Nedonna Beach, USA - Chongming & Qingdao, China -Tanshui, Taiwan - Keoje, South Korea - Shin Maruyama, Japan |
Tyco Telecommunications - Alcatel - NEC Submarine Systems - Ocean Cable Co. manufactured 17000 km of cable |
Verizon Business - China Telecom - China Netcom - China Unicom - Korean Telecom - Chungwa Telecom |
Tyco Durable - Ile de Sein - Ile de Batz - Fu Hai - Segero - Cable Innovator |
System 18000 km. |
Initial capacity 2.56 Tb/s. Maximum capacity 5.12 Tb/s. Upgraded in 2013 by TE Subcom to 10 Gb/s per wavelength |
2008 |
ENDEAVOUR: Sydney, Australia - Keawaulu, Hawaii |
Alcatel-Lucent Submarine Systems |
Telstra |
Ile de Sein |
System 9000 km. Due for completion end 2008 |
1.28 Tb/s |
2008 |
SHEFA 2: Banff, Scotland - Ayre of Cara, Orkney Islands - Sandwick, Shetland Islands: Maywick, Shetland Islands - Tórshavn, Faroe Islands |
NSW |
Xtera |
IT Intrepid |
System 1000 km. Route survey carried out by Fugro |
Initial 2 x 10 Gb/s Maximum 57 x 10 Gb/s |
2008 |
LIBERTY: L'Ancresse Bay, Guernsey - Blackpool Sands (Stoke Fleming), Devon, England
Also known as Channel Islands-9 |
ASN Calais |
JT Global |
Sovereign |
Laying took place 24 April - 30 April 2008. |
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2008 |
NORTHERN LIGHTS: Dunnet Bay, Scotland - Skaill, Orkney Islands |
ASN, Calais |
BT |
Sovereign |
Laying expected to be carried out June - July 2008. Laying interrupted due to Sovereign having to return to port (Hebburn on Tyne) for engine repairs. Left port on 19 July following completion of repairs. |
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2008 |
MARS: Monterey Accelerated Research System |
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Global Sentinel |
Consists of 52 km of power and fibre optic cable laid in Monterey Bay terminating in a 5 ton node containing earthquake sensors and low light cameras etc. Went live 10 November 2008 |
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2008 |
MINERVA: (a) Yeroskipos, Cyprus linked via branching unit to Mazara, Sicily - Tel Aviv, Israel cable. (b) Penthaskhinos, Cyprus linked via branching unit to Catania, Sicily - Haifa, Israel cable |
Alcatel-Lucent Submarine Systems |
MedNautilus - Cyta |
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System 500 km. Contract signed February 2007 |
10 Gb/s |
2008 |
BP-GOM: Ingleside - Pascagoula, USA |
Tyco Telecommunications |
BP American Production Company |
Tyco Resolute |
Sysytem 1190 km. Route survey carried out by C&C Technologies |
10 Gb/s |
2008 |
CAUCASUS CABLE SYSTEM: Varna, Bulgaria - Poti, Georgia |
Tyco Telecommunications |
Caucasus Networks Ltd |
? |
System 1187 km |
Upgraded to 1.2 Tb/s in 2011 |
2008 |
SEAK: South East Alaska Fibre Optic System: Will connect Angoon , Hawk Inlet, Juneau, Ketchikan, Petersburg, Sitka and Wrangell to the existing Alaska United West System |
? |
GCI Communications Corporation |
? |
System 754 km |
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2008 |
MIC-1: Batam, Indonesia - Changi, Singapore |
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System 70 km. Installed by Global Marine Systems Ltd |
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2008 |
Challenger Bermuda-1 (CB-1): Paget, Bermuda - Charlestown, Rhode Island, USA |
Alcatel-Lucent Submarine Networks |
Cable Co Ltd. - North Rock Communications Ltd |
? |
System 1445 kms. RFS December 2008. Laying completed September 2008. |
Initial capacity 20 Gb/s. Maximum capacity 320 Gb/s |
2008 |
Persona:- Rose Blanche, Newfoundland - New Victoria, Nova Scotia |
? |
EastLink |
? |
System 800 km. 2 cables laid over the same route. |
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2009 |
DANICE: Blaabjerg, Denmark - Landeyjarsandur, Iceland |
Tyco Telecommunications |
Farice Inc. |
? |
System 2304 km. 4 fibre pairs. RFS August 2009 |
Initial 100 Gb/s. Maximum 5.1 Tb/s. Upgraded to 100 Gb/s per wavelength by Ciena in 2013 |
2009 |
JAKABARE: Jakarta, Java - Ponitianak, Kalimantan - Batam Island, Indonesia - Tuas, Singapore |
NEC (Main Contractors) - Ocean Cable Co manufactured the cable |
Indosat |
Cable Innovator |
System 1400 km |
Initial 160 Gb/s. Maximum 1.28 Tb/s |
2009 |
GO 2: St Pauls Bay, Malta - Mazara del Vallo, Sicily |
Alcatel-Lucent - Elettra |
GO - Interoute |
Teliri |
System 290 km. Alcatel-Lucent will manufacture the cable and Elettra will carry out laying and route survey. Malta shore end laid 26 November. Main lay was to start 2 December but was delayed because of gales. Laying to take two weeks and the cable is due to enter service early 2009. |
2 x 10Gb/s |
2009 |
PPC 1: Sydney, Australia - Piti, Guam: Branching unit to Madang, Papua New Guinea |
Tyco Telecommunications |
PIPE NETWORKS - Tata Communications |
Tyco Durable - Tyco Decisive |
System 7185 km. Tyco Durable working North and Tyco Decisive working South. Cable crosses the Marianas Trench (maximum depth 12000 m) Cable maximum depth 9440 m. Opened for service 8 October 2009 |
Australia - Guam cable 1.92 Tb/s. 10 Gb/s x 96 wl x 2 fibre pairs. Madang cable 10 Gb/s. Upgraded to 100 Gb/s per wavelength by Infinera in 2012. |
2009 |
NEPTUNE: North-East Pacific Time-Series Networked Experiments: Port Alberni - Bamfield - Folger Passage (Node) - ODP 889 (Node) - Middle Valley (Node) - Endeavour (Node) - ODP 1027 (Node) - Barkley Canyon (Node) - Bamfield - Port Alberni |
Alcatel-Lucent Submarine Systems |
University of Victoria, Canada |
M/V Frosti carried out the route survey - Ile de Sein laid the cable - Global Sentinel carried out the Post Lay Inspection Burial (PLIB) |
System 800 km of power and fibre optic cable in the main loop and two similar spurs to Middle Valley and Endeavour totalling 125 km. Cable laying commenced 23 Aug 2007 and was scheduled to be completed in seven weeks. Nodes to be laid in 2008 and the whole system to be online in 2009 |
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2009 |
TGN EURASIA: Mumbai, India - Djibouti - Jeddah, Saudi Arabia - Ras Sidr, Egypt: Alexandria, Egypt - Marseilles, France |
Tyco Telecommunications |
Tata Communications |
? |
System 6000 km |
Initial 160 Gb/s. Maximum 1.28 Tb/s |
2009 |
TGN INTRA-ASIA: Tuas, Singapore - Vung Tau, Vietnam - Deerp Water Bay, Hong Kong - Ballesteros, Philippines - Toyohashi, Japan - Piti, Guam |
Tyco Telecommunications |
Tata Communications |
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System 6485 km |
3.84 Tb/s |
2009 |
HANNIBAL: Kelibia, Tunisia - Mazara, Italy |
Huawei Marine (Prime Contractor) |
Tunisie Telecom |
Sovereign |
System 170 km. |
Initial capacity 10 Gb/s per fibre pair, increasing to 40 Gb/s per fibre pair. Maximum capacity 3.2 Tb/s |
2009 |
SEACOM: Mumbai, India via BU - Mombasa, Kenya - Dar es Salaam, Tanzania - Toliary, Madagascar - Maputo, Mozambique - Mtunzini, South Africa: Djibouti - Jeddah, Saudi Arabia - Ras Sidr, Egypt - Marseille, France |
Tyco Telecommunications |
Neotel - SEACOM |
Tyco Durable - Tyco Decisive - Tyco Dependable - Tyco Resolute - Tyco Responder |
System 13000 km. Contract signed July 2007. Opened for service 23 July 2009. Direct links to London have been made available. |
640 Gb/s. Upgraded by Ciena in 2013 to 100 Gb/s per wavelength |
2009 |
AKORN: Anchorage, Alaska - Florence, USA |
Tyco Telecommunications |
ACS Cable Systems Inc |
? |
System 3100 km. |
10 Gb/s. 4 fibre pairs |
2009 |
AAG: ASIA AMERICA GATEWAY: Mersing, Malaysia - Changi, Singapore - Sri Racha, Thailand - Tungku, Brunei - Vung Tau, Vietnam -Lantau, Hong Kong - La Union, Philippines - Tanguisson, Guam - Keawaula, Hawaii - San Luis Obispo, USA |
Alcatel - NEC - Ocean Cable Co manufactured 20000 km of cable |
Telekom Malaysia - StarHub, Singapore - CAT, Thailand - Brunei Govt. - Telstra, Australia - Bayan Tel, PLDT, ETPI, Philippines - PT Telekom, Indonesia - VNPT, Vietnam - Bharti Airtel, India - AT&T, USA - BT, UK |
Rene Descartes - Fu Hai. Fu Hai laid segments 1i, Hong Kong to branching unit BU4 (towards Singapore) and segment 2, Hong Kong to the Philippines, totalling 2700 km of cable. Laying commenced September 2008 and was completed in December 2008 |
System 20191 km. USA - Hawaii 4228 km. Hawaii - Hong Kong 10,728 km. Hong Kong - South East Asia 5235 km. Ready for service on 11 Nov 2009 |
Initial capacity 500 Gb/s. USA - Hawaii, 3 fibre pairs 2.88 Tb/s. Hawaii - Hong Kong, 2 fibre pairs 1.92 Tb/s. Hong Kong - South East Asia, 3 fibre pairs 2.88 Tb/s. Upgraded in 2011 by Mitsubishi to 5.12 Tb/s. To be upgraded by Alcatel-Lucent to 8 Tb/s+. Contract signed September 2013. |
2009 |
LION 1: (Lower Indian Ocean Network): Toamasina, Madagascar - St Marie, Reunion - Terre Rouge, Mauritius |
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France Telecom - Mauritius Telecom - Orange Madagascar |
Chamarel |
System 1000 km. 2 fibre pairs. Opened for service 16 November 2009 |
1.28 Tb/s |
2009 |
ADONES: Angola Coastal Network: Cabinda - Soyo (2 cables on this section) - N'zeto - Luanda - Porto Amboim - Benguela - Lucira - Namibe, Angola |
Ericsson |
Angola Telecom |
Teliri |
System 1800 km unrepeatered. Italian company 'Elettra' to lay and bury cable. Cable was due to be commissioned in 2009 but a number of cable faults have delayed completion. CS Chamarel has been carrying out the repairs |
Initial capacity 30 Gb/s. Maximum Capacity 80 Gb/s |
2009 |
ASH: Keawaula, Hawaii - Pago Pago, US Samoa |
Alcatel-Lucent Submarine Networks |
ASH Cable Company |
Ile de Ré |
System 4680 km
ASH re-used the defunct PacRim East cable, which had been laid in 1993 |
1.2 Gb/s, 2 fiber pairs. . |
2009 |
BSCS: Changi, Singapore - Batam, Indonesia |
Ocean Cable Co |
Telekom Indonesia |
Northern Installer |
System 73 km. 3 fibre pairs |
80 Gb/s |
2009 |
C-BUS: St Davids, Bermuda - Tortola, British Virgin Islands |
Tyco Telecommunications |
LIME |
? |
System 1600 km. |
2 fibre pairs. Maximum capacity 1.6 Tb/s |
2009 |
Basslink: McGaurans Beach, Victoria - Four Mile Bluff, Tasmania |
Prysmian Cables & Systems supplied the cable. Siemens supplied the plant |
Basslink Telecoms |
Giulio Verne |
System 298 km contained within a 400 kV power cable laid in 2005. Came into service July 2009 |
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2009 |
BDM: Melaka, Malaysia - Dumai - Batam, Indonesia |
Nexans 78 km |
Moratelindo - Telekom Malaysia |
? |
System 353 km. 2 fibre pairs |
1.28 Tb/s |
2009 |
SAS: Samoa - American Samoa: Apia, Samoa - Pago Pago, American Samoa |
? |
American Samoa Government |
? |
System 250 km. |
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2009 |
MELITA 1: Pozzalio, Sicily - Bahar ic-Caghaq, Malta |
? |
Melita |
? |
System 97 km. RFS June 2009 |
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2009 |
TEAMS: The East African Marine System:- Fujairah, UAE - Mombasa, Kenya |
Alcatel-Lucent Submarine Networks |
Kenyan Government owns 45%; Etilsat 15%. Remainder split between various telecomms companies and ISP's |
Niwa |
System 4900 km. Contract signed November 2007. Laying commenced from Fujairah April 2009 and is due to be completed June 2009. |
640Gb/s. Maximum capacity 1.2Tb/s |
2009 |
GREENLAND CONNECT: Milton, Newfoundland - Nuuk, Greenland: Nuuk - Qaqortoq, Greenland - Landeyarsandur, Iceland |
Alcatel-Lucent Submarine Networks |
Tele Greenland |
Maersk Responder assisted by Blue Castor (Milton - Nuuk): Ile de Sein (Landeyarsandur - Qaqortoq -Nuuk) |
System 2500 + 2100 km. Contract signed December 2007. Due to open for service RFS March 2009 |
Maximum capacity 2.56 Tb/s. 2 fibre pairs x 62 wavelengths per fibre pair x 100 Gb/s per wavelength. |
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2010 |
HANTRU 1:- Tumon. Guam - Pohnpei, Micronesia - Ebeye, Regan Test Site, Kwajalein - Majuro, Marshall Islands. Link to Chuuk, Federated States of Micronesia via branching unit added in 2017 |
TE Subcom |
Hannon Armstrong Capital - Truestone - TE Subcom |
? |
System 2917 km. |
Initial capacity 20 Gb/s. Maximum capacity 160 Gb/s |
2010 |
PACIFIC UNITY: Chikura, Japan - Hermosa Beach, Los Angeles, USA |
NEC (Prime Contractor) - Tyco Telecommunications - Ocean Cable Co supplied 9500 km of cable |
Google - Bharti Airtel Ltd - Global Transit - KDDI - Pacnet - Sing Tel |
? |
System 10000 km. 5 fibre pairs. Contract signed Feb 2008. Opened for service March 2010 |
Initial capacity 1.92 Tb/s. Maximum 4.8 Tb/s. Upgraded by Alcatel-Lucent in 2013 to 100 Gb/s per wavelength |
2010 |
FLAG NGN: System 1: India - Malaysia - Singapore - Indonesia - Philippines - Brunei - Vietnam - Hong Kong |
Fujitsu |
FLAG TELECOM |
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System 50,000 km including entries below |
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2010 |
FLAG NGN: System 2: India - Kenya - Tanzania - Mozambique - South Africa: Madagascar - Mauritius |
Fujitsu |
FLAG TELECOM |
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2010 |
FLAG NGN: System 3: Libya - Lebanon - Cyprus - Greece - Turkey - Malta |
Fujitsu |
FLAG TELECOM |
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2010 |
FLAG NGN: System 4: Japan - China - Hong Kong - USA |
Fujitsu |
FLAG TELECOM |
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2010 |
HONOTUA: Spencer Beach, Hawaii - Papeete, French Polynesia: |
Alcatel |
OPT (Office de Postes & Telecommunications) |
Ile de Re |
System 4650 km. 1 fibre pair |
Hawaii - Papeete cable 10 Gb/s x 32 wavelengths x 1 fibre pair. Initial capacity 2 x 10 Gb/s. |
2010 |
HONOTUA:- Papeete - Moorea - Huahine - Uturoa - Vaitape, French Polynesia |
Alcatel |
OPT (Office de Postes & Telecommunications) |
Ile de Re |
System 305 km. 2 fibre pairs |
Initial capacity 2 x 2.5 Gb/s, maximum capacity 8 x 10 Gb/s |
2010 |
EASSy: EAST AFRICA SUBMARINE CABLE SYSTEM: Main cable runs from Port Sudan, Sudan to Mtunzini, South Africa. The following are connected via branching units:- Djibouti - Mogadishu, Somalia - Mombasa, Kenya - Dar es Salaam, Tanzania - Moroni, Comoros - Bandele, Mayotte - Toliary, Madagascar - Maputo, Mozambique |
Alcatel-Lucent Submarine Systems |
WIOCC: West Indian Ocean Cable Company which consists of the telecoms companies in the following countries:- Djibouti - Kenya - Somalia - Uganda - Zanzibar - Burundi - Nigeria - Botswana - Mozambique - Lesotho. Other partners are - Mauritius Telecom - Comoros Telecom - Sudatel, Sudan - MTN Group - Neotel - Telkom, South Africa - Teleccom Malagasy - Tanzania Telecoms - Zambia Telecoms - BT, UK - France Telecom - Etisalat, UAE - Barthi AerTel, India - Saudi Telecom |
? |
System 10500 km. Construction contract signed March 2007. Laying completed 19 April 2010. Opened for service 21 July 2010. Landlocked countries; Botswana - Burundi - Central African Republic - Democratic Republic of Congo - Chad - Ethiopia - Lesotho - Malawi - Rwanda - Swaziland - Uganda - Zambia and Zimbabwe will be linked to the cable by a land based fibre optic network |
3 fibre pairs. Maximum capacity 1.4 Tb/s. To be upgraded by Alcatel-Lucent to 100 Gb/s per wavelength with a total capacity of 10 Tb/s+ |
2010 |
MAIN ONE: Phase 1; Seixal, Portugal - Port Harcourt, Nigeria: Links to Casablanca, Morocco - Tenerife, Canary Islands -Dakar, Senegal - Abidjan, Ivory Coast - Accra, Ghana - Lagos, Nigeria via branching units. Phase 2; Nigeria - Angola - South Africa |
Tyco (Cable) |
? |
Tyco Resolute |
System 7000 km. Phase 1 opened for business on 1 July 2010 |
2 fibre pair, 1.28 Tb/s |
2010 |
Project Kelvin: Dublin - Drogheda - Dundalk - Castleblayney - Monaghan, Ireland - Omagh - Strabane, N. Ireland - Letterkenny, Ireland - Londonderry - Coleraine, N. Ireland: Monaghan - Armagh - Portadown - Belfast - Ballymena - Coleraine, N. Ireland |
? |
Hibernia Atlantic |
Sovereign |
Landline with a connection to Hibernia's southern cable at Dublin and a connection to their northern cable via a branching unit and cable to Coleraine. Due to enter service March 2010 |
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2010 |
Iceland - via branching unit to Hibernia's Northern cable |
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Hibernia Atlantic |
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Will provide Iceland with a direct link to Canada, USA, Ireland, England |
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2010 |
ANTEL: Maldonado, Uruguay - Las Toninas, Argentina |
Alcatel-Lucent (Prime Contractor) |
Antel - Telecom Argentina |
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System 250 km. Due for completion 4th quarter 2010 |
Initial 50 Gb/s. Maximum capacity 3.84 Tb/s |
2010 |
MKCS: Mataran - Kupang Cable System. Mataran - Sumbawa Besa - Raba - Waingapu - Kupang, Indonesia |
Huewai Marine (Prime contractor) |
PT Telkom |
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System 1200 km. Due for completion late 2010 |
Initial capacity 4 x 10 G/bs |
2010 |
SG-SCS: Surinam Guyana Submarine Cable System:- Surinam - Guyana - Trinidad |
NEXANS |
Telesur Surinam - Guyana Telephone & Telegraph |
Sovereign |
System 1127 km. Sovereign is at present (December 2009) loading the cable at Rognan, Norway and will sail for Surinam in the New Year. Completed May 2010. |
2 fibre pair |
2010 |
JaKa2LaDeMa: Pontianak - Ketapong - Pangkalanbun - Bandjermasin, Kalimantan, Indonesia |
NSW - Fujitsu |
Telkom Indonesia |
? |
System 1800 km. including two entries below. Opened for service May 2010 |
Maximum capacity 9.6 Tb/s. 3 fibre pairs x 32 wavelengths per fibre pair x 100 Gb/s per wavelength |
2010 |
JaKa2LaDeMa: Sangatta, Kalimantan - Toweli, Sulawesi, Indonesia |
NSW - Fujitsu |
Telkom Indonesia |
? |
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2010 |
JaKa2LaDeMa: Jember, Java - Benculuk, Bali - Mataram, Lombok, Indonesia |
NSW - Fujitsu |
Telkom Indonesia |
? |
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2010 |
GLO 1; Bude, Cornwall, England - Lagos, Nigeria: BU connect Vigo, Spain - Sesimbra, Portugal - Casablanca, Morocco - Nouakchott, Mauretania - Dakar, Senegal - Accra, Ghana - Alpha Beach, Lekki, Lagos, Nigeria: |
Alcatel-Lucent (Prime Contractor) |
Globacom |
Ile de Batz - IT Intrepid |
System 9800 km. UK - Spain section, Ile de Batz carried out route clearance work on 9 May 2007, and commenced laying 10 May completing it on 26 May. Main cable landed in Nigeria on 5 September 2009. Opened for service 20 October 2010. |
Initial capacity 640Gb/s. Total capacity 2.5Tb/s |
2010 |
ALEXANDROS: Marseilles, France - Alexandria, Egypt - Pentaskhinos, Cyprus |
Alcatel-Lucent Submarine Networks |
Telecom Egypt - France Telecom - Cyprus Telecommunications Authority |
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Brought into service 1 September 2010. Connected to TE NORTH via a branching unit |
96 x 10 Gb/s |
2010 |
TE NORTH: Sidi Kerir, Egypt - Marseille, France - Cyprus via branching unit |
Alcatel-Lucent Submarine Networks |
Telecom Egypt - France Telecom |
? |
System 3100 km. Main cable completed 1 April 2010. Brought into service June 2010. |
10 Tb/s + |
2010 |
I-ME-WE: India - Middle East - Western Europe:- Section 1: Marseilles, France - Catania, Sicily - Alexandria, Egypt - Tripoli, Lebanon |
Alcatel-Lucent (Prime Contractor) - Ocean Cable Co supplied 12000 km of cable |
Bharti Airtel - VSNL, India - PTCL, Pakistan - Etisalat, UAE - STC, Saudi Arabia - Ogero, Lebanon - TE, Egypt - Telecom Italia Sparkle, Italy - France Telecom, France |
? |
System 14000 km by 3 pairs fibre optic cable. Includes entry below. Opened for service 14 December 2010. Route survey carried out by Fugro |
Initial 520 Gb/s. Maximum 3.84 Tb/s. Upgraded by Mitsubishi in 2012 to 40 Gb/s per wavelength. |
2010 |
I-ME-WE Section 2: Suez, Egypt - Jeddah, Saudi Arabia - Fujairah, UAE - Karachi, Pakistan - Mumbai, India. The two sections are linked by landline between Alexandria and Suez. |
Alcatel-Lucent (Prime Contractor) |
Bharti Airtel - VSNL, India - PTCL, Pakistan - Etisalat, UAE - STC, Saudi Arabia - Ogero, Lebanon - TE, Egypt - Telecom Italia Sparkle, Italy - France Telecom, France |
Cable Innovator |
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Initial 520 Gb/s. Maximum 3.84 Tb/s. Upgraded by Mitsubishi in 2012 to 40 Gb/s per wavelength. |
2010 |
TELMAR: Tel Aviv, Israel - Marseille, France |
? |
MedNautilus - CYTA |
? |
? |
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2010 |
Anjwa - Whawon Island, South Korea |
LS Cables |
Korean Electric Power Corporation (KEPCO) |
Fu Hai |
System 2 x 154 Kv 3 core XLPE power cables laid simultaneously. |
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2010 |
SAIT:- San Andres Isla Tolu Submarine Cable: San Andres - Tolu, Colombia |
? |
Energia Integral Andina |
? |
System 825 km. |
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2010 |
Tobruk-Emasaed Cable System:- El Quawef - Tobruk, Libya |
? |
Libyan PTT |
? |
System 178 km. |
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2010 |
PGASCOM:- Kuala Tungkai - Batam, Indonesia - Sakra Island, Singapore |
? |
PGASCOM |
? |
System 264 km. |
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2011 |
TGN GULF: Kuwait City, Kuwait - Al Khobar, Saudi Arabia - Manama, Bahrain - Sumaisma, Qatar - Dubai, UAE. |
Tyco Telecommunications. Respective countries are responsible for cable stations. |
Tata Communications |
? |
System 2306 km. Linked to TGN EURASIA by a branching unit. |
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2011 |
East-West: Morant Point, Jamaica - Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic - Tortola, British Virgin Islands - |
? |
LIME (C&W) |
? |
System 1700 km. Due for completion early 2011 |
Initial capacity 120 Gb/s. Maximum capacity 720 Gb/s |
2011 |
Canalink: Cadiz, Spain - Tenerife, Canary Islands |
Alcatel-Lucent (main contractor) |
Isalink - IT3 |
? |
2000 km. 2 fibre pairs. Route survey carried out by Fugro |
10 Gb/s x 128 wavelengths x 2 fibre pairs. Maximum capacity 5.12 Tb/s |
2011 |
La Guaria, Venezuela - Santiago de Cuba, Cuba |
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Ile de Batz |
System consists of two cables each of 1552 km. Laying starting 22 January 2011. Due for completion July 2011. |
640 Gb/s |
2011 |
Santiago de Cuba, Cuba - Jamaica |
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Ile de Batz |
System consists of two cables. Due for completion July 2011. |
640 Gb/s |
2011 |
HAWK: Marseilles, France - Yeroskipou, Cyprus - Alexandria, Egypt |
Fujitsu |
Reliance Globalcom |
? |
System 3685 km |
Initial 100 Gb/s. Maximum 2.5 Tb/s. 4 fibre pairs x 68 wavelengths per fibre pair x 10 Gb/s per wavelength. |
2011 |
COMETA: Morvedre, Valencia, Spain - Santa Ponsa, Palma de Mallorca, Majorca |
NEXANS |
? |
Giulio Verne - Nexans Skaggerak |
System 480 km plus 7 km of landline. Two 400 MW power cables. Giulio Verne commenced laying cable 1 on 13 January 2011 and Nexans Skaggerak commenced laying cable 2 on 27 January 2011 |
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2011 |
SILPHIUM: Chania, Greece - Darnah, Libya |
Huewai Marine Networks |
Libyan PTT |
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System 420 km |
7 x 10 Gb/s |
2011 |
TE NORTH: Sidi Kerir, Egypt - Marseilles, France |
Alcatel-Lucent Submarine Networks |
Telecom Egypt - France Telecom |
? |
System 3100 km. |
10 - 20 Tb/s. Upgraded by Infinera to 100 Gb/s per wavelength in 2012 |
2011 |
ATHENA: Koropi, Greece - Pentaskhinos, Cyprus |
? |
Cyprus Telecommunications Authority - Italia Telecom Sparkle |
? |
System 600 km. |
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2011 |
BIN: Bari, Italy - Durres, Albania |
? |
Unifi |
? |
System 280 km |
40 Gb/s |
2011 |
Bicentenairo: Maldonado, Uruguay - Las Toninas, Argentina |
Alcatel-Lucent (Prime Contractor) |
Antel, Uruguay - Telecom Argentina |
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System 250 km. RFS December 2011 |
Initial 50 Gb/s. Maximum capacity 3.84 Tb/s |
2011 |
SAS-2:- Saudi Arabia - Sudan 2: Jeddah, Saudi Arabia - Port Sudan, Sudan |
? |
Sudan Telecom Co. - Saudi Telecom |
? |
330 km. |
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2011 |
Turcyos-2:- Tricomo, Cyprus - Samandag, Turkey |
? |
Turk Telkom |
? |
System 213 km. |
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2011 |
GBICS: Mazara, Sicily - Alexandria, Egypt: Zafarana, Egypt - Jeddah, Saudi Arabia - Mumbai, India: BU to Al Seeb, Oman - Fujairah, UAE - Doha, Qatar - Al Hidd, Bahrain - Al Khobar, Saudi Arabia - Kuwait City, Kuwait - Al Faw, Iraq - Bushehr, Iran - Fujai |
TE Subcom |
Gulf Bridge International |
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System 4750 km. 4 fibre pairs express route, 2 fibre pairs on remainder. GBI owns this system and MENA except for 1 fibre pair in the Oman - Mumbai section and 1 fibre pair on the Oman - Sicily section which are owned by MENA |
2.5 Tb/s. 10Gb/s x 128 wavelengths per fibre pair. Upgraded to 100 Gb/s per wavelength in 2012 by Xtera |
2011 |
MKCS: Mataran - Kupang Cable System. CABLE 1:- Mataran - Sumbawa Besar - Ambalawi: CABLE 2:- Saraemee - Waingapu - Ende - Kupang, Indonesia |
Huewai Marine (Prime contractor). Nexans manufactured the cable. |
PT Telkom |
Cable Innovator |
System 1200 km., unrepeatered throughout. RFS April 2011 |
6 fibre pairs x 30 wavelengths per fibre pair x 10 Gb/s per wavelength. Maximum capacity 1.8 Tb/s |
2011 |
Ceiba-1: Bata - Malabo, Equatorial Guinea |
? |
Ministerio de Transportes, Technologia, Correos y Telecommunicaciones |
? |
System 287 km. |
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2011 |
PENCAN 7:- Alta Vista, Canary Islands - Chipiona, Spain |
Alcatel-Lucent |
Telefonica |
? |
System 1400 km. RFS October 2011. |
Initial capacity 10 Gb/s. Upgraded by Alcatel-Lucent to 100Gb/s in 2015 |
2011 |
PENCAN 8:- Candelaria, Canary Islands - Conil, Spain |
Alcatel-Lucent |
Telefonica |
? |
System 1400 km. |
Initial capacity 10 Gb/s. Upgraded by Alcatel-Lucent to 100Gb/s in 2015 |
2011 |
BDM: Melaka, Malaysia - Dumai - Batam, Indonesia |
Nexans 78 km |
PT Mora Telematika - PT XL - Axiata - Telekom Malaysia |
? |
System 400 km. 2 fibre pairs |
1.28 Tb/s |
2011 |
EIG: Europe India Gateway; Bude, England - Sesimbra, Portugal - Gibraltar - Teutan, Morocco - Monaco - Tripoli, Libya - Alexandria, Egypt: Ras Sidr, Egypt - Jeddah, Saudi Arabia - Djibouti - Muscat - Fujairah, UAE - Mumbai, India |
Alcatel-Lucent - Tyco Telecommunications |
AT&T - Bharti Airtel - BT - C&W - Djibouti Telecom - Gibtelcom - IAM - Libya PTT - MTN Group - Omantel - UAE PT - Saudi Telecom - Telecom Egypt - Telkom SA - Verizon Business |
? |
System 15000 km. RFS February 2011 |
3.84 Tb/s DWDM. Upgraded by Ciena in 2014 |
2011 |
Romulo: Sagunto, Spain - Santa Ponsa, Mallorca, Spain |
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Red Electrica |
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System 237 km. Power cable with a fibre optic cable attached |
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2012 |
MENA: (Middle East North Africa):- Mazara de Vallo, Sicily - Alexandria, Egypt: Suez - Zafarana, Egypt - Jeddah, Saudi Arabia - Al Seeb, Oman - Mumbai, India |
Alcatel-Lucent Submarine Networks (Egypt - Sicily cable). TE Subcom |
GBI - MENA |
Maersk Responder - Ile de Sein - Niwa - Tyco Decisive |
System 8850 km. 6 fibre pairs. Contract signed October 2007. Route survey carried out by EGS, Blue Star and Elettra. See above |
5.76 Tb/s. 10 Gb/s x 96 wavelengths per fibre pair. Upgradeable to 100 Gb/s per wavelength. |
2012 |
Dhiraagu Cable Network: Kulhudhufushi - Eydhafushi - Hulhumale - Dhangethi - Gan - Gahdhoo - Fuvahmulah - Hithadhoo, Maldive Islands |
? |
Dhiraagu |
? |
System 1253 km. RFS April 2012 |
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2012 |
CELTIX CONNECT-1 (CC-1): Holyhead, Anglesey - Dublin, Ireland |
ASN |
Sea Fibre Networks |
Cable Innovator |
System 136 km. RFS 1/1/2012 |
72 fibre pairs. Total capacity 960 Gb/s |
2012 |
ACE (Africa Coast to Europe) Penmarc'h, France - Lisbon, Portugal - Asilah, Morocco - Tenerife, Canary Islands - Nouakchott, Mauritania - Dakar, Senegal - Banjul, Gambia - Sucujacque, Guinea Bissau - Conakry, Guinea - Freetown, Sierra Leone - Monrovia, Liberia - Abidjan, Ivory Coast - Accra, Ghana - Lome, Togo - Cotonou, Benin - Lagos, Nigeria - Kribi, Cameroun - Bata, Equatorial Guinea - Santana, St Thomas & Prince Islands - Libreville, Gabon - Muanda, DR Congo - Luanda, Angola - Swakopmund, Namibia - Cape Town, South Africa |
Alactel-Lucent (Main contractors) TE Subcom (Sub contractors) |
Baharicom - Benin Telecoms SA - Camtel - Companhia Santomense de Telecounicacoes - Cote dIvoire Telecom - Etisalat - Canartel Sudan Consortium - France Telecom - Gamtel - Getesa - Globalink - Maroc Telecom - Mauritano- Tunisienne des Telecommunications - Camtel - Companhia Santomense de Telecomunicacoes - Benin Telecoms SA - Côte d'lvoire Telecom - France Telecom SA - Gamtel - Maroc Telecom - Orange Bissau - Orange Cameroun - Orange Guinee - Orange Mali - Orange Niger - Orange Spain - Portugal Telecom - Sonatel - Togo Telecom |
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System 17000 km. Route survey carried out by Fugro |
Maximum capacity 5.12 Tb/s |
2012 |
GLOBAL NEXUS: (North) Freeport, Grand Bahama - Bermuda - Boca Raton, USA - Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada |
TE SubCom |
Global Nexus Telecommunications Ltd |
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System 2500 km. Laying commenced July 2010. |
Initial 40 G/bs upgradeable to 100 G/bs |
2012 |
GLOBAL NEXUS: (South) Freeport, Grand Bahama - Cuba - Fortaleza, Brazil |
TE SubCom |
Global Nexus Telecommunications Ltd |
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2012 |
GLOBAL NEXUS (Central) Bahamas - Cuba |
TE SubCom |
Global Nexus Telecommunications Ltd |
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2012 |
LION 2: (Lower Indian Ocean Network); Mombasa, Kenya - Mayotte - then by branching unit linked to LION 1. |
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France Telecom - Orange - Mauritius Telekom Ltd. - Orange Madagascar - Telkom Kenya Ltd. - |
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1.28 Tb/s |
2012 |
SCAN: (Submarine Cable Asia Network) Surabaya, Jakarta, Indonesia - Hong Kong. Branching units will be installed enabling links to Singapore, Vietnam and the Philippines to be added at a later date |
NEC (Prime contractor) |
Telemedia Pacific Inc. - Fangbian Iskan Corporindo PT |
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System 4000 km consisting of six fibre pairs |
5.76 Tb/s total capacity |
2012 |
Darnah, Libya - Chania, Greece |
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System 420 km. |
Initial capacity 7x10 Gb/s. Maximum capacity 1.2 Tb/s |
2012 |
Darnah, Libya - Chania, Greece |
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System 420 km. |
Initial capacity 7x10 Gb/s. Maximum capacity 1.2 Tb/s |
2012 |
JONAH: Bari, Italy - Tel Aviv, Israel |
Alcatel-Lucent Submarine Networks |
Bezeq Intrnational |
Ile de Brehat |
System 2300 km. Route survey carried out by Elettra using Explora |
7.6 Tb/s |
2012 |
SOLAS: Kilmore Quay, Ireland - Oxwich Bay, Wales |
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Eircom |
Wave Sentinel |
System twin cables total 140 km. |
5 Gb/s |
2012 |
Chennai, India - Khulna, Bangladesh |
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1Asia Communication (BD) Ltd. Tata Communications |
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System 1450 km. Due to open for service September 2012 |
10 Gb/s |
2012 |
WACS: West Africa Cable System: Yzerfontein, South Africa - Walvis Bay, Namibia -Luanda, Angola - Muanda, DR Congo - Pointe Noire, R Congo - Douala, Cameroun - Lagos, Nigeria - Lom, Togo - Accra, Ghana - Côte d'lvoire - Cabo Verde Islands - Alta Vista, Canary Islands - Sesimbra, Portugal - Whitesands Bay, England |
Alcatel-Lucent (main contractor) |
Broadband Infracom - Congo Telecom - MTN Group - Office Congolais des Postes et Télécommunications - Portugal Telecom - Cabo Verde Telecom - Tata Communications - Neotel - Telecom Namibia - Telkom SA - Togo Telecom - Vodafone Espana - Vodaphone Ghana - Vodaphone - Neotel - PCCW - Camtel |
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System 14350 km. Opened for service 11 May 2012. |
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Initial capacity 5.12 Tb/s. Maximum capacity 14.5 Tb/s. 4 fibre pairs x 32 wavelengths per pair x 100 Gb/per wavelength |
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2012 |
ALASIA:- Pentaskhinos. Cyprus - Tartus, Syria |
? |
Cyta - STE, Syria |
? |
System 350 km., repeaterless. |
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Maximum capacity 25.6 Tb/s. 8 fibre pairs |
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2012 |
Punta Dungeness - Espiritu Santo, Argentina |
Alcatel-Lucent Submarine Networks |
AR-SAT |
Ile de Batz |
System 27 km. |
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2012 |
B3JS:- Singapore - Bangka - Bintan - Batam - Jakarta, Indonesia |
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? |
Moratelindo |
? |
System 1030 km. |
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2012 |
Libreville - Port Gentil, Gabon |
? |
? |
? |
System 198 km. |
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2012 |
SEAS:- Seychelles to East Africa System: Victoria, Seychelles - Dar es Salaam, Tanzania |
? |
Seychelles Cable System Ltd. |
? |
System 1930 km. RFS August 2012 |
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2012 |
Tamares North:- Haifa, Israel - Yeroskipos, Cyprus |
? |
Tamares UK Group |
? |
System 345 km. |
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2012 |
TT-1:- Pigeon Point - Toco, Trinidad and Tobago |
? |
C&W Networks - TSTT Alliance Telecoms |
? |
System 48 km. |
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2012 |
Emerald Bridge Fibres:- Clonslaugh, Ireland - Holyhead, Anglesey |
? |
Zayo Group - ESB Telecoms |
? |
System 120 km. 48 fibre pairs. RFS December 2012 |
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2012 |
Pishgaman Oman Iran (POI) Network:- Jask, Iran - Barka, Oman - Chabahar, Iran |
? |
Pishgaman Kavir |
? |
System 400 km. |
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2012 |
AUTA:- Alaska United Turnagain Arm. McHugh Point - Portage, Alaska |
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GCI |
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System 53 km |
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2012 |
Cross Straits Cable Network: Dadeng, China - Gunintau, Taiwan: Guanyin Mountain, China - Lake Ci, Taiwan |
? |
Chungwa Telecom - China Telecom - China Unicom - China Mobile |
? |
System 21 km. |
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2012 |
Geo-Eirgrid:- Deeside, Clwyd, Wales - Lusk, Ireland |
? |
Eirgrid |
? |
System 187 km. (Power cable) |
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2013 |
SJC: South East Asia Japan Cable: Tuas, Singapore - Chikura, Japan: Links to Nasugbo, Philippines - Chung Hum Kok, Hong Kong -Shantou, China - Telisai, Brunei are provided via branching units. Connections to Jakarta, Indonesia and Songkhla, Thailand will be added later. |
NEC (Prime contractor) - 8900 km of cable supplied by OCC Corporation (formerly Ocean Cable Co) - TE Subcom |
BIG, Brunei - China Mobile - China Telecom - Donghwa Telecom - Globe Telecom - KDDI - Singtel, Singapore - Telin, Indonesia - Telemedia Pacific Inc (TPI) - TOT Public Co. |
? |
System 8900 km initially. 10700 when links to Thailand and Indonesia are added. Ready for service second half of 2013. |
Initial capacity 15 Tb/s. Maximum capacity 23 T/bs. 6 fibre pairs each of 64 x 60 Gb/s DWDM. Upgraded to 100 Gb/s per wavelength by TE Subcom |
2013 |
SEAHORSE 1: Miami, USA - Kingston, Jamaica. Ocho Rios, Jamaica - Dominican Republic - Puerto Rico - Miami |
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Completion of the whole system is scheduled for 2013. A link to Cuba from Jamaica may be added later. |
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2013 |
HUDSON; Manhattan - Edgewater, New Jersey |
Prysmian (Italy) |
Powerbridge |
Giulio Verne |
System 3 miles. 3 x 660 MW power cables and 2 fibre optic cables. |
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2013 |
Optikor Network: Sydney, Australia - North and South Islands, New Zealand |
Huawei Marine Networks |
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System 3000 km x 2 fibre pairs |
Initial capacity 120 Gb/s. Maximum capacity 6.4 Tb/s |
2013 |
America Movil-1. (AMX-1):- Jacksonville, Miami, USA - Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic - San Juan, Puerto Rico - Cancun, Mexico - Puerto Barrios, Guatemala - Baranqquila, Cartagena, Colombia - Fortaleza, Salvador da Bahia, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
Alcatel-Lucent Submarine Networks |
America Movil |
? |
System 17500 km. Fugro and EGS surveyed the route. |
100 G/bs |
2013 |
Europa:- Pentaskhinos, Cyprus - Tripoli, Lebanon |
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CYTA - Lebanese PTT |
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System 8 fibre pairs |
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2013 |
Boracay-Palawan Submarine Cable System: Taytay - Coron - San Jose, Philippines |
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Globe Telecom |
? |
System 332 km. 12 fibre pairs |
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Maximum capacity 4.8 Tb/s. 40 wavelengths per fibre pair x 10 Gb/s per wavelength |
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2013 |
TSE-1:- Taiwan Strait Express: Tanshui, Taiwan - Fuzhou, China |
? |
China Unicom - China Mobile - Taiwan Mobile - Chungwa Telecom |
? |
System 260 km. |
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2013 |
Tonga Cable:- Nuku'alofa, Tonga - Suva, Fiji |
? |
Tonga Communications Corp. |
? |
System 827 km. |
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2013 |
ALBA-1: Siboney, Cuba - Camuri, Venezuela: Santiago de Cuba, Cuba - Ocho Rios, Jamaica |
Alcatel-Lucent Shanghai Bell - Telecomunicaciones Gran Caribe (TGC) |
Telecom Venezuela - Transbit SA |
? |
System 1600 km. Cable was laid in 2011 but not activated until January 2013. Route survey carried out by EGS using RV Ridley Thomas |
Initial capacity 640 Gb/s. Maximum capacity 5.12 Tb/s |
2013 |
ASE: Kitibaraki, Japan - Ballesteros, Philippines - Taipa, Macau - Tuas, Singapore - Kuantan, Malaysia |
Fujitsu supplied the line terminal equipment. - NEC supplied the cable, repeaters and branching units. SB Submarine Systems installed the cable. |
NTT Communications - PLDT, Philippines - StarHub, Singapore - Telekom Malaysia |
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System 7200 km. |
Maximum capacity 15 Tb/s. 6 fibre pairs x 128 wavelengths per fibre pair x 40 Gb/s per wavelength |
2013 |
GOKI: Guam - Okinawa - Kita-Kyushu, Japan - Inncheon, South Korea |
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AT&T |
Kokusai |
System 4200 km. Will consist of recovered parts of TPC-5 cable and one other local cable plus new cable. |
6.4 T/bs |
2013 |
OMRAN/EPEG Cable System:- Khasab - Diba - Barka, Oman - Jask, Iran. Iran link via branching unit |
? |
Omantel, Vodaphone |
? |
System 600 km. RFS 1st quarter 2013 |
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2013 |
TPKM3: Taiwan Penghu Kinmen Matsu No 3: Jincheng Township - Xiju Township - Magong City - Huxi Township - Tainan, Taiwan: Dongyin Township - Beigan Township - Nangan Township - Xiju - Taoyuan, Taiwan |
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Chunghwa Telecom |
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System 510 km. |
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2014 |
ICN 1:- Interchange Cable Network: Port Vila, Vanuatu - Suva, Fiji |
Alcatel-Lucent Submarine Networks |
Interchange Ltd. |
Ile de Re |
System 1230 km. Laying commenced 13 November and was completed on 25 November 2013. RFS 15 January 2014 |
Initial capacity 20 Gb/s. Maximum capacity 320 Gb/s |
2014 |
Pac Fibre 2:- Los Angeles, USA - Sydney, Australia - Takapuna, Whenuapai, New Zealand |
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Pac Fibre Ltd. |
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System 13600 km., 2 fibre pairs |
40 G/bs upgradeable to 100 G/bs |
2014 |
SAEx:- Fortaleza, Brazil - Cacuaco, Luanda, Angola - Melkbosstrand, Mtunzini, Port Elizabeth, East London, South Africa. Possible link to St Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha |
Alcatel-Lucent Submarine Networks |
eFive Telecomms, GlobeNet |
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System 9900 km., 2 fibre pairs |
16 T/bs |
2014 |
Crimea - Russia (across Kerch Strait) |
? |
Rostelecom |
? |
Laying completed 25th April 2014. First internet connection took place on July 24th. |
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2014 |
DIDON: Kelibia, Tunis - Mazara del Vallo, Sicily |
? |
Orange Tunisie - Ooredoo Tunisie |
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System 170 km. RFS May 2014 |
Maximum capacity 18 Tb/s. 100 Gb/s per wavelength |
2014 |
Flores-Corvo Cable System: Graciosa - Corvo - Flores - Faial, Azores |
Huawei Marine Networks - NEXANS who carried out the installation and laying. |
Viatel |
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System 685 km. |
6 fibre pairs. Maximum capacity 960 Gb/s. 16 wavelengths per fibre pair x 10 Gb/s per wavelength |
2014 |
Porthcurno, Cornwall, England - Portcressa Beach, Scilly Isles |
? |
BT |
? |
System 40 km. Plan is to recover local redundant cables and reuse them. |
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2014 |
JIBA: Jambi - Batam Cable System: Tanjung Pinggir - Kuala Tungkai, Indonesia |
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Indosat - Ooredoo - Moratelindo - XL Axiata |
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System 267 km. |
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2014 |
POSEIDON:- Yeroskipos - Pentakhinos, Cyprus |
? |
Cyta - Radius Oceanic Communications |
? |
System 800 km. Laid to provide communications to offshore gas and oil installations |
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2014 |
Skagerrak 4:- Kristiansand, Norway - Tjele, Denmark |
? |
Statnett |
? |
System 137 km. |
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2014 |
Sumatra Bangka Cable System (SBSC):- Muntok - Palembang, Indonesia |
? |
Telkom Indonesia |
? |
System 57 km. |
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2014 |
TSCS: Tarakan Selor Cable System:- Tanjung - Tarakan, Indonesia |
? |
Telkom Indonesia |
? |
System 83 km. |
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2014 |
BT Highlands and Islands Submarine Cable System:- Ardmair, Scotland - Branahuie Bay, Isle of Lewis: Leverburgh, Harris - Lochmaddy, North Uist: Dunvegan, Isle of Skye - Sandwick Village, South Uist: Ludag - Balla, South Uist - Coillag - North Bay, Barra: Ardvasar, Isle of Skye - Mallaidvaig, Scotland: Ardgour - Corran, Scotland: Kilchoan Ferry, Scotland - Tobermory, Isle of Mull: Scarinish, Tiree - Calgary, Isle of Mull: Duart Bay, Isle of Mull - Ganavan Bay, Scotland: Otter Ferry - Achnabar, Scotland: Feolin Ferry, Scotland - Port Askaig, Islay: Lavagulin, Islay - Glenbarr, Scotland: Ardberg Point - Largs, Scotland: Kilchatten Bay, Bute - Portachur Point, Scotland: Blackwaterfoot, Isle of Arran - Ardnacross, Scotland: Aikeness - Bay of Tuquoy, Scotland: Corrie, Isle of Arran - Ardneil Bay, Scotland: Ardyne Point - Down Craig, Scotland: Craighouse, Jura - Ormsary, Scotland. |
Global Marine Solutions supplied the cable and did route surveys. A-2-Sea Solutions provided the land based equipment. |
BT |
Rene Descartes |
System 402 km. |
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2014 |
Roquetas-Melilla, Spain (CAM) |
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Telefonica |
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System 181 km |
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2015 |
BLAST: Fogagogo, Tu'tuila - Ofu Harbour, Ofu - Luma, Ta'u - Aunu'u Wharf, Aunu'u, American Samoa |
International Telecom |
ASTCA (American Samoa Telecommunications Authority) |
IT Intrepid |
System 250 km. Repeaterless. |
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2015 |
BRICS:- Vladivostock, Russia - Chantou, China, Singapore - Chennai, India - Mauritius - Cape Town, South Africa - Fortaleza, Brazil - Miami, USA |
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Imphandze Subtel Services |
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System 34000 km 2 fibre pair |
12.8 T/bs |
2015 |
GTT Express (formerly Hibernia Express):- Brean, Somerset, England - Cork, Ireland - Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada |
TE Subcom |
Hibernia Atlantic. Hibernia was taken over by GTT Communications Inc., on 9 January 2017 |
Route clearance was carried out as follows:- Canadian end - Tyco Resolute - Tyco Decisive. UK end - DSV Atlantic Guardian - CS Ikaros - CS Ile d'Aix - CS Ile d'Brehat. Laying carried by the above Tyco vessels plus Tyco Dependable - Tyco Reliance - Tyco Responder |
System 4600 kms. Due for completion September 2015. At Halifax the cable will link with Hibernia's Halifax - New York cable. Additional branching units are being installed in the cable to allow for future connections to other countries |
6 fibre pairs. 100 Gb/s per fibre pair x 100 Gb/s per wavelength. Maximum capacity 53 Tb/s |
2015 |
LTCS: Luwuk - Tutuyan, Indonesia |
? |
Telkom Indonesia |
? |
System 445 km. |
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2015 |
NCSCS: Nigeria-Cameroun Submarine Cable System:- Lagos, Nigeria - Kribi, Cameroun |
Huawei Marine Networks - NEXANS who carried out the installation and laying. |
Camtel |
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System 1100 km. RFS December 2015 |
6 fibre pairs. Initial capacity 40 Gb/s. Maximum capacity 12.8 Tb/s |
2015 |
SMPCS Packet-1:- Manado - Sofifi - - Labuha - Sorong - Sanana - Namlea - Masohi - Ambon - Bandaneira - Fakfak - Kendari, Indonesia |
? |
Telkom Indonesia |
? |
System 3150 km. |
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2015 |
SMPCS Packet-2:- Jayapura - Sarmi - Biak - Manokwari - Waisai - Sorong - Fakfak - Tual - Kaimana - Timika - Merauke, Indonesia |
? |
Telkom Indonesia |
? |
System 3500 km. |
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2015 |
FOS Quellon-Chacabuco: Puerto Chacaburo - Quellon, Chile |
International Telecom installed the cable |
Gtd Teleductos S.A. |
? |
System 350 km. RFS January 2015 |
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2015 |
PCCS: Pacific-Caribbean Cable System:- Jacksonville, Florida - Tortola, BVI - Isla Verde, Puerto Rico - Tera Cora, Curacao - Hudishibana, Aruba - Cartagena, Colombia - Maria Chiquita, Panama: Balboa, Panama - Manta, Ecuador |
Alcatel-Lucent Submarine Networks |
C&W Communications - Setar - Telconet - Telefonica - UTS |
Route survey carried by RV Ridley Thomas |
System 6000 km. |
6 fibre pairs 100 Gb/s per wavelength. Maximum capacity 48 Tb/s |
2015 |
St. Thomas - St. Croix System:- Banana Bay - Brewers Bay - Christiansted - Flamingo Bay - Frederiksted - Great Bay - Vila Cioja, US Virgin Islands |
International Telecom installed the cable |
Virgin Islands Next Generation Networks Inc. |
IT Intrepid |
System 183 km. |
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2015 |
Exa Express: Halifax, Canada - Cork, Ireland - Brean, England |
Subcom |
EXA Infrastructure |
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System 4600 km. |
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2016 |
AE Connect (now AEC-1): Shirley, Long Island, USA - Killala, Co Mayo, Ireland |
TE Connectivity SubCom |
AECL |
AT&T AquaComms |
System 5536 km. Route survey commenced off Long Island on 9 December 2013. Final splice November 2015 and ready for service 31 January 2016. Originally named EMERALD EXPRESS but the company was unable to raise the finance. The scheme was taken over by AECL and renamed. |
6 fibre pairs: 130 wavelengths at 100 Gb/s on each fibre pair. Maximum capacity 78 Tb/s |
2016 |
SEA-US: Hermosa Beach, California, USA - Oahu, Hawaii - Piti, Guam - Dayao, Philippines - Menado, Indonesia |
NEC, prime contractor |
Hawaiin Telcom - Telin, Indonesia - Telkom, USA - Globe Telecom - GTI Corp - Teleguam, Guam - LLC (GTA) - RTI |
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System 15000 km. |
2 fibre pairs x 100 wavelengths per fibre pair x 100 Gb/s per wavelength. Maximum capacity 20 Tb/s |
2016 |
BBG: Bay of Bengal Gateway:- Singapore - Penang, Malaysia - Ratmalana, Sri Lanka - Chennai, Mumbai, India - Barka, Oman - Fujairah, UAE |
Alcatel-Lucent Submarine Networks |
Telekom Malaysia Berhad, Malaysia - Vodaphone Group, UK - Omantel, Oman - Etisalat, UAE - Reliance Jio Infocomm, India - Dialog Axiata, Sri Lanka |
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System 8100 km. Route survey carried out by Northern Endeavour. |
3 fibre pairs. Initial capacity 6.4 Tb/s. Maximum capacity 55 Tb/s |
2016 |
Far East Submarine Cable System: Ola - Okha - Ust Bolsheretsk, Russia |
Huawei Marine Networks. Installation carried out by Global Marine Systems Ltd. |
Rostelcom |
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System 2000 km. RFS 1st quarter 2016 |
2 fibre pairs x 8 wavelengths per fibre pair x 100 Gb/s per wavelength. Maximum capacity 1.6 Tb/s |
2016 |
FASTER: Bandon, Oregon, USA - Tanshui - Shima, Japan |
NEC - Installation carried out by Orange Marine |
Google - KDDI - Singtel - China Telecom - China Mobile - Global Transit |
? |
System 9000 km. |
6 fibre pairs x 100 wavelengths per fibre pair x 100 Gb/s per wavelength. Initial capacity 28 Tb/s. Maximum capacity 60 Tb/s. |
2016 |
Lynn Canal Fibre:- Skagway - Haines - Lena Point - Juneau, Alaska, USA |
? |
Alaska Power & Telephone Co. (AP&T) |
? |
138 km. |
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2016 |
C-Lion 1: Helsinki, Finland - Rostock, Germany |
? |
Cinia Group Oy |
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System 1172 km. |
8 fibre pairs 300 Gb/s per wavelength. Maximum capacity 144 Tb/s |
2016 |
North West Cable System:- Darwin, NT - Port Hedland, WA, Australia |
? |
Nextgen Networks |
? |
System 2000 km. |
2 fibre pairs with a maximum capacity of 12 Tb/s |
2016 |
AVASSA:- Moroni - Chindini, Grande Comores: Mutsamudu, Anjoun - Mamoudzou, Mayotte |
Huawei Marine Networks |
Comores Telecom - STOI |
? |
System 260 km. RFS November 2016 |
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2016 |
APG: Asia Pacific Gateway:- Pusan, Korea - Qingdao, China - Shima, Japan - Chongming, China - Toucheng, Taiwan - Lantau, Hong Kong - La Union, Philippines - Vung Tau, Vietnam - Songkhla, Thailand - Kuantan, Malaysia - Tuas, Singapore |
NEC, prime contractor - OCC Corporation supplied 10400 km of cable. SBS Submarine Systems installed the system |
China Telecom - China Unicom - Chungwa Telecom International - Korean Telecom - Facebook - NTT Communications - PLDT, Philippines - Star Hub, Singapore - Telekom Malaysia - TIMEdotCom - VNPT |
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System 10,400 km. |
Initial capacity 40 Gb/s per wavelength. Upgradeable to 100 Gb/s. Maximum capacity 54.8 Tb/s |
2016 |
GUANTANAMO BAY CABLE:- Miami, Florida - Guantanamo Bay, Cuba |
NEXANS - XTERA |
US Military |
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System 1500 km. |
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2017 |
JUNIOR:- Rio de Janeiro - Santos, Brazil |
NEXANS - PadTec. Elettra carried out the installation |
Google |
Teliri |
System 400 km. |
8 fibre pairs |
2017 |
Monet:- Boca Raton, Florida, USA - Fortaleza - Santos, Brazil |
TE Subcom |
Angola Cables - Google - Algar Telecom - Antel, Uruguay |
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System 10500 km. |
6 fibre pairs x 100 wavelengths per fibre pair x 100 Gb/s per wavelength. Maximum capacity 60 Tb/s |
2017 |
Ooredoo Maldives Domestic Submarine Cable System:- Kulhudhufushi - Eydhafushi - Hulhumale - Kolhufushi - Thinadhoo - Hithadhoo, Maldives |
Huawei Marine Systems |
Ooredoo |
? |
System 1090 km. RFS March 2017 |
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2017 |
Quintillion Subsea:- Prudhoe Bay - Nome, Alaska. The following places are connected via branching units. Barrow, Wainwright, Point Hope, Kotzebue |
Alcatel-Lucent (Prime contractor) |
Quintillion |
Ile de Batz - Ile de Sein - Ile de Brehat - MV Dream Catcher |
System 900 km. |
3 fibre pairs x 100 wavelengths per fibre pair x 100 Gb/s per wavelength. Maximum capacity 30 Tb/s |
2017 |
SeaX-1:- SEA cable Exchange-1: Batam, Indonesia - Changi North, Singapore - Mersing, Malaysia |
Huawei Marine Works |
Super Sea Cable Networks |
? |
System 250 km. |
24 fibre pairs. |
2017 |
SEABRAS-1:- New Jersey, USA - Praia Grande, Brazil |
? |
Seaborne Networks |
? |
System 10900 km. RFS June 2017 |
6 fibre pairs x 120 wavelengths per fibre pair x 100 Gb/s per wavelength. Maximum capacity 72 Tb/s |
2017 |
SKR1M: Sistem Kabel Rakyat 1 Malaysia: Cherating - Kota Kinabalu - Miri - Bintulu - Kuching - Mersing, Malaysia |
NEC |
Telekom Malaysia - TIMEdotCom |
? |
System 3700 km. |
Initial capacity 4 Tb/s. |
2017 |
Strategic Evolution Underwater Link (SEUL):- Bomba - San Pedro, Belize |
? |
Belize Telemedia |
? |
System 24 km. |
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2017 |
Tannat:- Santos, Brazil - Maldonaldo, Uruguay |
TE Subcom |
Google - Antel - Government of Uruguay |
? |
System 2000 km. RFS 4th quarter 2017 |
6 fibre pairs, Maximum capacity 90 Tb/s |
2017 |
TGA: Tasman Global Access Cable:- Oxford Flats, Australia - Raglan, New Zealand |
? |
Spark New Zealand - Vodafone - Telstra |
? |
System 2300 km. |
2 fibre pairs. Maximum capacity 20 Tb/s. 100 Gb/s per wavelength |
2017 |
ATISA:- Piti, Guam - Sasanlagu, Rota - Tachognya Beach, Tinian - Sugar Dock, Saipan, North Mariana Islands |
NEC |
Docomo Pacific |
? |
System 280 km. RFS June 2017 |
6 fibre pairs. |
2017 |
Greenland Connect North:- Aasiaat - Sisimiut - Manitsoq - Nuuk, Greenland |
Huawei Marine Networks |
Tele Greenland |
? |
System 680 km. |
Maximum capacity 4.8 Tb/s. |
2017 |
ASIA AFRICA EUROPE 1 (AAE-1):- (Main cable):- Marseilles, France - Bari, Italy - Chanai, Greece - Abu Talat - Zafrana, Egypt - Jeddah, Saudi Arabia - Djibouti City, Djibouti - Aden, Yemen - Satun, Thailand Landline across Thailand between these two landings. Sianoukville, Thailand - Cape D'Aguilar, Hong Kong. Branching units link the following to the main cable. Muscat, Oman - Fujairah, UAE - Doha, Qatar: Karachi, Pakistan: Mumbai, India: Ngwe Saung, Myanmar: Pontian Kechi, Malaysia - Singapore. |
TE Subcom |
China Unicom - Telecom Egypt - Chuan Wei, Cambodia - Djibouti Telecom - Etisalat, UAE - HKT - PCCW, Hong Kong - Mobily, Saudi Arabia - Omantel, Oman - OTE Globe, Greece - Ooredoo Group, Qatar - PTCL, Pakistan - TOT, Thailand - Viettel, Vietnam - Hyalroute - Metfene - Retelit - Reliance Jio Infocomm |
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System 25000 km RFS 26 June 2017. WFS 2042 |
Maximum capacity 40 Tb/s. 5 fibre pairs x 80 wavelengths per fibre pair x 100 Gb/s per wavelength |
2017 |
Kiamsam, Labuan, Malaysia - Tungku, Brunei |
? |
Common Tower Technologies |
? |
System 52 km. RFS April 2017 |
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2017 |
MCT: Malaysia-Cambodia-Thailand Cable:- Rayong, Thailand - Sihanoukville, Cambodia - Cherating, Malaysia |
Huawei Marine |
Malaysia Telekon - Ezecom - Symphony - DTAC |
? |
System 1300 km. RFS March 2017 |
Maximum capacity 30 Tb/s. 6 fibre pairs x 50 wavelengths per fibre pair x 100 Gb/s per wavelentgh |
2017 |
SEA-ME-WE 5:- Marseilles, France - Annaba, Algeria - Bizerte, Tunisia - Palermo, Sicily - Alexandria - Suez, Egypt (Landline between these two landings) - Jeddah, Saudi Arabia - Fujairah, UAE - Karachi, Pakistan - Mumbai, India - Mt Lavinia, Sri Lanka - Chennai, India - Cox's Bazaar, Bangladesh - Satun, Thailand - Melaka, Malaysia - Singapore |
France - Sri Lanka carried out by Alcatel-Lucent and Sri Lanka - Singapore by NEC |
SEA-ME-WE 5 Consortium |
? |
System 16000 km. |
3 fibre pairs 80 wavelengths per fibre pair and 100 Gb/s per wavelength |
2017 |
Kiamsam, Labuan, Malaysia - Tungku, Brunei |
? |
Common Tower Technologies |
? |
System 52km. RFS April 2017 |
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2017 |
Malabo, Equatorial Guinea - Kribi, Cameroun - Bata, Equatorial Guinea |
Huawei Marine. |
Republic of Equatorial Guinea |
Global Marine Systems Ltd., installed the cable. |
System 300 km. |
Maximum capacity 8 Tb/s |
2017 |
Fibre Atlantic:- Manasquan, USA - Cayeux sur Mer, France |
Project abandoned |
SemanticNet |
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System 6250 km.. 6-8 fibre pairs |
100 Gb/s x 100 wavelengths per fibre pair Total capacity 60 Tb/s |
2017 |
Energy Bridge Cable: Osoviny, Ukraine - Ilyich, Russia |
HMN Tech |
Miranda Media |
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System 17 km. |
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2018 |
BRUSA: Rio de Janeiro - Fortaleza, Brazil - San Juan, Peurto Rico - Virginia Beach, Virginia, USA |
ASN |
Telefonica |
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System 11000 km. RFS 2nd quarter 2018 |
Maximum capacity 138 Tb/s. 8 fibre pairs x 135 wavelengths per fibre pair x 100 Gb/s per wavelength |
2018 |
HAWAIKI:- Oregon, USA - Kapolei, Hawaii - Pago Pago, American Samoa - Sydney, Australia. Mangawhai, New Zealand. |
TE Subcom |
Hawaiki Cable Co. |
Global Sentinel - Tyco Responder |
System 15000 km. |
Initial capacity 5 Tb/s. Maximum capacity 43,8 Tb/s. 4 fibre pairs x 106 wavelengths per fibre pair x 100 Gb/s per wavelength |
2018 |
MAREA:- Bilbao, Spain - Virginia Beach, Virginia, USA |
TE Subcom |
Facebook - Microsoft - Telefonica |
Teneo - Tyco Dependable |
System 6600 km. RFS 1st quarter 2018 |
8 fibre pairs. Maximum capacity 160 Tb/s. |
2018 |
Pacific Light Cable Network:- Manhattan Beach, California, USA - Tseung Kwan O, Hong Kong |
TE Subcom |
Pacific Light Data Communications Co - Facebook - Google |
? |
System 12800 km. |
5 fibre pairs x 240 wavelengths per fibre pair x 100 Gb/s per wavelength |
2018 |
South Atlantic Interlink (SAIL):- Kribi, Cameroun - Fortaleza, Brazil |
Huawei Marine Networks |
Camtel - China Unicom |
? |
System 5900 km. RFS 3rd quarter 2018 |
4 fibre pairs x 80 wavelengths per fibre pair x 100 Gb/s per wavelength. Maximum capacity 32 Tb/s |
2018 |
Trident Subsea Cable:- Onslow - Perth, Australia |
? |
Trident Subsea Cable |
? |
System ? Will connect with MATRIX cable via a branching unit. |
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2018 |
ARBR:- Praia Grande, Brazil - Los Toninas, Argentina |
? |
Werthein Group - Seaborn Group |
? |
System 2700 km. RFS 4th quarter 2018 |
4 fibre pairs. Maximum capacity 48 Tb/s |
2018 |
AWE:- Australia West Express: Djibouti City, Djibouti - Diego Garcia, BIOT - Perth, Australia |
? |
GoTo Networks |
? |
System 10000 km. RFS 4th quarter 2018 |
2 fibre pairs x 100 wavelengths per fibre x 200 Gb/s per wavelength. Maximum capacity 20 Tb/s |
2018 |
GULF2AFRICA (G2A):- Salalah, Oman - Bosaso - Berbera, Somalia |
? |
Omantel - Golis Telecommunications - Telesom - Ethio Telecom |
? |
System 1500 km. |
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2018 |
KANAWA:- Kourou, French Guiana - Schoelcher, Martinique |
? |
Orange |
? |
System 1750 km. |
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2018 |
ORVAL:- Oran, Algeria - Valencia, Spain |
Alcatel-Lucent (Prime contractor) |
Algeria Telecom |
? |
System 560 km. RFS 2018 |
Initial capacity 100 Gb/s. Maximum capacity 20 Tb/s |
2018 |
ASC: Australia, Singapore Cable:- City Beach, Perth, Australia - Flying Fish Cove, Christmas Island - Anyer, Jakarta, Indonesia -Tanah Merah, Singapore |
Alcatel-Lucent Submarine Networks |
Vocus Communications |
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System 4800 km. RFS July 2018 |
Initial capacity 10 Gb/s then 40 Gb/s. 150 wavelengths per fibre pair x 100 Gb/s per wavelength. |
2018 |
ASSC-1: Perth, Australia - Jakarta, Indonesia - Singapore |
Huawei Marine Networks |
Bevan Slattery |
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System 4700 km., will consist of 4 fibre pairs, 3 of which will run from Perth to Singapore, the 4th pair will run Perth - Jakarta - Singapore. |
6 T/bs upgradeable to 16 T/bs |
2018 |
SACS; South Atlantic Cable System:- Luanda - Angola - Fortaleza, Brazil |
NEC |
Angola Cables - Telebras |
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System 6000 km. |
4 fibre pairs x 100 wavelengths per fibre pair x 100 Gb/s per wavelength |
2018 |
Tui-Samoa:- Fagali'i - Tuasivi, US Samoa - Laucaia Bay, Fiji |
Alcatel Submarine Networks |
Samoa Submarine Cable Co. |
Ile de Re |
System 1470 km. |
Maximum capacity 8 Tb/s |
2018 |
NEW CROSS PACIFIC (NCP) CABLE SYSTEM:- Pacific City, Oregon, USA - Manuyama, Japan - Pusan, South Korea - Chongming - Nanhui, China - Toucheng, Taiwan |
TE Subcom |
China Telecom - China Unicom - Chungwa Telecom - KT - China Mobile - Microsoft Softbank Telecom |
? |
System 13620 km. |
Maximum capacity 80 Tb/s |
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2019 |
Crosslake Fibre:- Buffalo, New York, USA - Toronto, Canada |
? |
Crosslake Fibre |
? |
System 58 km. |
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2019 |
Eastern Light:- Kotka - Helsinki - Hanko, Finland - Stockholm, Sweden |
NSW |
Eastern Light |
? |
System ? |
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2019 |
Guantanamo Bay Cable 2:- San Juan, Puerto Rico - Guantanamo Bay, Cuba |
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US Military |
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System 1200 km. |
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2019 |
JGA-N: JAPAN - GUAM - AUSTRALIA, NORTH:- Minami Boso, Japan - Piti, Guam. JGA-S: SOUTH SECTION:- Piti, Guam -Maroochydore, Queensland - Sydney, NSW, Australia |
ASN - NEC |
RTI |
? |
System 2600 km. RFS 4th quarter 2019 |
Maximum capacity 36 Tb/s |
2019 |
INDIGO-Central:- Perth - Sydney, Australia |
? |
Superloop - Singtel - Google - Indosat Ooredoo - AARNET |
? |
System 4850 km. RFS 1st quarter 2019 |
2 fibre pairs. Maximum capacity 36 Tb/s |
2019 |
INDIGO-West:- Tuan, Singapore - Jakarta, Indonesia - Perth, Australia |
? |
Superloop - Singtel - Google - Indosat Ooredoo - AARNET |
? |
System 4600 km. RFS 1st quarter 2019 |
2 fibre pairs. Maximum capacity 36 Tb/s |
2019 |
IOX Cable System:- Puducherry, India - Creve Couer - Porte aux Pimentes, Mauritius |
? |
IOX Cable Ltd |
? |
System 8850 km. RFS 1st quarter 2019 |
Maximum capacity 54 Tb/s |
2019 |
Midgardsormen:- Virginia Beach, Virginia - Blaabjerg, Denmark |
? |
Midgardsormen |
? |
System 7850 km. RFS 2nd quarter 2019 |
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2019 |
Deep Blue Cable:- (Cable 1) Boca Raton, Florida - Willemstad, Curacao - Manzanilla, Trinidad and Tobago. Branching units link the following to the main cable: Providenciales, Turks and Caicos Islands: Cap Haitien, Haiti: Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic: San Juan, Puerto Rico: Arcahaie, Haiti: Jacmel, Haiti: Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic: San Juan, Puerto Rico: Barranquilla, Colombia: Hudishibana, Aruba: Kralendijk, Bonaire, St Eustatius and Saba: Chaguaramas, Trinidad and Tobago: Rocky Bay, Trinidad and Tobago: (Cable 2) Naples, Florida - North West Point - Boddan Town, Cayman Islands - Maria Chiquita, Panama. Branching units link the main cable to the following. Montego Bay, Ocho Rios, Kingston, Jamaica: Cartagena, Colombia. (Cable 3) Tortola, British Virgin Islands - St Louis, St Martin - The Valley, Anguilla. From (Cable 2) links to (Cable 1) run from Ocho Rios and Kingston, Jamaica. |
? |
Deep Blue Cable |
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System 12000 km. RFS December 2019 |
Maximum capacity 160 Tb/s |
2019 |
IslaLink:- Sines, Portugal - Funchal, Madeira - Tenerife, Canary Islands - Praia, Cape Verde Islands - Fortaleza, Brazil. Branching unit links Santos, Brazil |
? |
Telebras - IslaLink |
? |
System 10120 km. RFS 2019 |
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2019 |
HK-G:- Piti, Guam - Tseung Kwan O, Hong Kong |
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System 4000 km. RFS 4th quarter 2019 |
Maximum capacity 48 Tb/s |
2019 |
MYTHIC: Myanmar-Thailand Interconnect Cable:- Thanlyin, Myanmar - Satun, Thailand |
? |
Campana Group |
? |
System 1600 km. |
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2019 |
NORTH SEA CONNECT: Esbjerg, Denmark - Newcastle upon Tyne, England |
? |
Aqua Comms |
? |
System 700 km. |
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2019 |
NEMO: twin power cable; Pegwell Bay, England - Zeebrugge, Belgium |
OCC ? |
National Grid |
Bodo Installer 2 laid shore ends - Maersk Connector |
System 140 km. |
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2019 |
IFC-1: Ireland -France Cable:- Cork, Ireland - Lannion, France |
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Ireland-France Subsea Cable Ltd. |
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System 700 km. |
6 fibre pairs. Maximum capacity 240 Tb/s |
2019 |
SRG-1:- Silk Route Gateway: Karachi - Gwalior, Pakistan - Muscat, Oman |
? |
Multinet, Pakistan - Omantel |
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System 1030 km. |
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2019 |
BEST Cable: North Tipalao, Guam - Manado, Indonesia - Parang, Philippines - Tawau, Malaysia - Kota Kinabalu, Sabah - Tungku, Brunei: Tawau, Malaysia - Samarinda, Indonesia |
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BEST Cable Corporation |
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System 5092 km. |
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2019 |
South America Pacific Link (SAPL):- Jacksonville, Florida - Balboa - Colon, Panama - Valparaiso, Chile - with link to Makaha, Hawaii via a branching unit |
Alcatel Submarine Networks |
Ocean Networks |
? |
System 17600 km. |
3 fibre pairs x 150 wavelengths per fibre pair x 100 Gb/s per wavelength. Maximum capacity 30 Tb/s |
2019 |
BIN: Balkans-Italy Network:- Bari, Italy - Durres, Albania |
? |
Unifi |
? |
275 km |
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2019 |
FIBRA OPTICA AUSTRAL: Puerto Montt - Totel - Punta Arenas - Puerto Williams, Chile |
Huawei Marine Networks - IT International Telecom |
AUSTRAL University of Magellan - Magellan CPC |
IT Intrepid |
System 2800 km. RFS 4th quarter 2019 |
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2019 |
Baie Jacotet, Mauritius - Grand Baie, Rodriguez Island |
Huawei Marine Networks |
Mauritius Telecom - PCCW Global |
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System 700 km. |
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2019 |
NATITUA:- Huku Niva - Hiva Hoa - Takaroa - Manihi - Kaukura - Rangiroa - Arutua - Fakarava - Makerno - Hao - Hitia'a, French Polynesia |
? |
OPT French Polynesia |
? |
System 2500 Km. |
Maximum capacity 10 Tb/s |
2019 |
SSCS: Saba Statia Cable System:- Basseterre, St Kitts Nevis - Fort Bay, Bonaire - Great Bay Beach, St Martin - Oranjestad, Bonaire |
? |
? |
? |
System 827 km. |
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2019 |
MARS:- Baie Jacotet, Mauritius - Grande Baie, Rodriguez Island |
? |
Mauritius Telecom |
? |
System 700 km. |
Maximum capacity 16 Tb/s |
2019 |
Denpasar Waingapu Cable System:- Waingapu - Sumbawa Beser - Lombok - Padang Galak, Indonesia |
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Moratelindo |
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System 814 km. |
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2019 |
Kupang-Alor Cable Systems: Alor - Kupang, Indonesia |
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Moratelindo |
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System 273 km. |
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2019 |
Vancouver- Bowen Island - Vancouver Island: French Creek - Cape Roger Curtis |
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Shaw Business |
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System 75 km |
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2020 |
Eviny Digital: Bergen - Karsto - Stavanger, Norway |
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BKK Digitek |
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System 210 km. |
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2020 |
HK-G:- HONG KONG-GUAM: Tseung Kwan O, Hong Kong - Piti, Guam |
ASN |
Gateway Network Connection |
? |
System 3693 km. 4 fibre pairs each of 12 Tb/s |
Maximum capacity 48 Tb/s |
2020 |
JUPITER:- Hermosa Beach, California - Oregon, USA - Maruyama - Shima, Japan - Daet, Philippines |
TE Subcom |
Amazon Web Services - Facebook - NTT - PLDT - PCCW - Softbank Telecom |
? |
System 14557 km. |
Maximum capacity 60 Tb/s |
2020 |
England Cable: Seaton Sluice, England, Stavanger, Norway |
? |
NO-UK COM AS |
? |
System 700 km. |
8 dark fibre pairs. Maximum capacity 240 Tb/s |
2020 |
Chennai-Andaman & Nicobar Islands:- Chennai, India - Rangat - Long Island - Havelock - Port Blair - Little Andaman - Car Nicobar - Great Nicobar |
? |
Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd. (BSNL) |
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2020 |
DARE 1:- Djibouti Africa Regional Express: Djibouti City, Djibouti - Bossaso - Berbera - Mogadishu, Somalia - Mombasa, Kenya |
TE Subcom |
Djibouti Telecom - Africa Marine Express - TeleYemen - Telesom - Hormuud Telecom, Somalia - Golis Telecommunications - Somtel International |
? |
System 4854 km. All connections except Mombasa and Djibouti are linked to the main cable via branching units. RFS June 2020 |
Maximum capacity 30 Tb/s |
2020 |
PLCN:- Pacific Light Cable Network: El Segundo, California, USA - Baler, Philippines - Toucheng, Taiwan |
TE Subcom |
Pacific Light Data Communications Co - Facebook - Google |
? |
System 11806 km. |
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2020 |
HAVFRUE/AEC-2:- Kritiansand, Norway - Blaabjerg, Denmark - Le Canvey, Ireland - Wall Township, New Jersey, USA |
TE Subcom |
Aqua Comms - Facebook - Google - Bulk Infrastructure |
? |
System 8179 km |
Maximum capacity 108 Tb/s |
2020 |
Coral Sea Cable System: Sydney, Australia to Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea and Honiara - Auki - Noro - Taro, Solomon Islands |
ASN |
Vocus Communications |
Ile de Brehat |
System 4000 km. |
Maximum capacity 20 Tb/s each to Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands |
2020 |
Curie:- Los Angeles, California - Valparaiso, Chile |
Subcom |
Google |
? |
System 10500 km. 4 fibre pairs each of 18 Tb/s |
|
2020 |
KetchCan 1 Submarine Fibre Cable System:- Ketchikan, Alaska - Prince Rupert, British Columbia |
? |
Ketchkan Public Utilities |
? |
System 167 km |
|
2020 |
DOS CONTINENTES 1 & 2:- La Linea - Playa de Benitez - Playa de la Ribera - Tarifa, Spain |
? |
GTD España |
? |
System 95 km. |
|
2020 |
FIBRA OPTICA AUSTRAL: Puerto Montt - Totel - Punta Arenas - Puerto Williams, Chile |
Huawei Marine Networks - IT International Telecom |
AUSTRAL University of Magellan - Magellan CPC |
IT Intrepid |
System 2800 km. |
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2020 |
FIBRA OPTICA al PACIFICO:- Ilo - Lima, Peru |
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Entel Bolivia |
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System 1180 km. |
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2020 |
JGA-N: JAPAN - GUAM - AUSTRALIA, NORTH:- Minami Boso, Japan - Piti, Guam. JGA-S: SOUTH SECTION:- Piti, Guam -Maroochydore, Queensland - Sydney, NSW, Australia |
ASN - NEC |
North Section - RTI. South Section Google - Australia Academic and Research Network - RTI |
? |
System North 2600 km. South 7081 km. |
Maximum capacity 36 Tb/s |
2020 |
Golden Bay, Malta - Mgarr ix Xini, Gozo |
? |
Gozo Fibre Optic Cable Ltd. |
? |
System 13 km. |
|
2020 |
Manatua:- Apia, Samoa - Alofi, Niue - Aitutaki - Rarotonga, Cook Islands - Vaitape - To'ahotu, French Polynesia |
ASN |
OPT French Polynesia - Samoa Submarine Cable Company - Avaroa Cable Ltd. - Telecom Niue. |
? |
System 3634 km |
|
2020 |
Okinawa Cellular Cable:- Kagoshima - Nago, Japan |
? |
Okinawa Cellular Telephone Company |
? |
System 760 km. |
|
2020 |
ORVAL:- Oran Valencia: Oran - Algiers, Algeria - Valencia, Spain |
? |
Algerie Telecom |
|
System770 km. |
Maximum capacity 40 Tb/s |
2020 |
PRAT:- Arica - Iquique - Antofagasta - La Serena - Valparaiso - Talcahuano - Puerto Montt, Chile |
NSW |
Gtd Teleductos SA |
|
System 3500 km. |
|
2020 |
Skagenfiber West:- Hirtshals, Denmark - Larvik, Norway |
? |
Altibox |
|
System 170 km. |
|
|
2021 |
Alyazan, Azerbaijan - Turkmenbashi, Turkmenistan |
? |
Azertelecom - Turkmentelecom |
|
System 300 km. RFS 4th quarter 2021 |
|
2021 |
EAUFON:- EASTERN ARCTIC UNDERSEA FIBRE OPTIC NETWORK: Puvirnituq - Inukjuak - Umiujaq - Kuujjuarapik - Chisasibi, Quebec, Canada |
ASN |
Kativik Regional Government |
? |
System 1200 km. |
2 fibre pairs. Maximum capacity 10 Tb/s per fibre pair. RFS December 2021 |
2021 |
Dunant:- Saint-Hilaire-de-Riez, France - Virginia Beach, Virginia, USA |
SubCom |
Google |
? |
System 6400 km.
RFS 19 January 2021 |
12 fibre pair space-division multiplexing (SDM) design with a maximum of 25 Tb/s per fibre pair. Orange has use of 2 fibre pairs.
Total capacity 250Tb/s
Named after Henri Dunant, the first Nobel Peace Prize winner and founder of the Red Cross |
2021 |
IAF2; Interconnexion France-Angleterre: Chilling, England - Tourbe, France |
Prysmian Pikkala, Finland, Submarine cable: Prysmian, Gron, France, Landlines |
National Grid UK - RTE France |
Cable Enterprise - Ulisse |
325KVDC power cable: 200km main submarine cable: 40km Landline in France. 2 x 2km Landlines in England with 5 km submarine cable linking the two landline sections. Operational January 2021. |
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2021 |
ARCTIC CONNECT NORTHEAST PASSAGE: Kirkines, Norway - Teriberka, Russia - Vladivostock, Russia - Bejing, China - Emi, Japan |
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System 10500 km. |
Maximum capacity 30 Gb/s. 6 fibre pairs. 100 Gb/s per wavelength |
2021 |
Equiano:- Lisbon, Portugal - Melkbosstrand, South Africa
Connections to the following via branching units:- Lagos, Nigeria. Muanda, DR Congo. St Helena, Ascension, Tristan da Cunha. Swakopmund, Namibia |
Alcatel Submarine Networks |
Google |
? |
System ? |
Named for Olaudah Equiano, a Nigerian-born writer and abolitionist who was enslaved as a boy |
2021 |
OAC:- Oman - Australia Cable: Muscat, Oman - Perth, Australia |
Subcom |
SUB.CO |
|
System 9800 km. |
|
2021 |
METISS:- Meltingpot Indianoceanic Submarine System:- Durban, South Africa - Fort Dauphin, Madagascar - Baie Tombeau, Mauritius - Le Port, Réunion |
? |
Telecom Malagasy - CEB Fibrenet - Emtel - Canal+ Telecom - SFR - Zeop |
? |
System 3000 km. |
Maximum capacity 24 Tb/s |
2021 |
Ellalink: Sines, Portugal - Funchal, Madeira - Tenerife, Canary Islands - Praia, Cape Verde Islands - Fortaleza - Santos, Brazil |
ASN |
Telebras - IslaLink |
? |
System 5900 km |
4 fibre pairs x 100 wavelengths per fibre pair x 100 Gb/s per wavelength. Initial capacity 50 Tb/s. |
2021 |
Galapagos Subsea System:- Manta, Ecuador - Puerto Baquerizo Moreno, Galapagos Islands |
? |
Galapagos Cable Systems |
? |
System 1200 km. |
|
2021 |
HKA: Hong Kong Americas:- Hermosa Beach - Manchester, California, USA - Toucheng, Taiwan - Chung Hom Kok, Hong Kong |
ASN |
Facebook - Telstra - Tata Communications - China Telecom - China Unicom - RTI Express |
? |
System 13000 km. 6 fibre pairs |
Maximum capacity 80 Tb/s |
2021 |
PEACE: Marseilles, France - Yeroskipos, Cyprus - Abu Tulat - Zafarana, Egypt - Djibouti City, Djibouti - Bosaso - Hobyo - Kismayo - Mogadishu, Somalia - Gwadar - Karachi, Pakistan. Branching unit links the following to the main cable: Hobyo - Mogadishu - Kismayu, Somalia - Victoria, Seychelles - Mombasa, Kenya |
Hengtong Marine |
Peace Cable Network Co. |
Pierre de Fermat, Mediterranean section. This cable was loaded onboard the freighter SOFIA for transport to Brest, France where it was to be transferred to the cable ship. |
System 13000 km. |
Maximum capacity 60 Tb/s |
2021 |
PLCN:- Pacific Light Cable Network: El Segundo, California - Baler, Philippines - Toucheng, Taiwan |
Subcom |
Google - Facebook - PLDT |
? |
System 12800 km. |
6 fibre pairs, 24 Tb/s per fibre pair. Maximum capacity 144 Tb/s |
2021 |
Malbec:- Rio de Janeiro - Praia Grande, Brazil - Las Toninas, Argentina |
ASN |
Globenet - Facebook |
? |
System 2500 km. |
|
2021 |
CrossChannel Fibre:- Brighton, England - Veules de Roses, France |
? |
Crosslake Fibre |
? |
System 155 km. 96 fibre pairs |
|
2021 |
BaSICS:- Batam Sarawak Internet Cable System:- Kg Buntai, Sarawak - Tanjung Bemban, Indonesia |
? |
PP Telecommunication Sdn Bhd - XL Axiata |
? |
System 762 km. RFS First quarter 2021 |
|
2021 |
BT NORTH SEA:- Cable 1; ICENI - Winterton on Sea, England - Callantsoog, Netherlands. Cable 2; MERCATOR - Broadstairs, England - Ostend, Belgium |
? |
BT |
? |
System ? |
|
2021 |
Converge ICT Domestic Submarine Cable:- Taytay - Coron - Roxas - San Juan: Coron - Boracay - Roxas City - Milagros - Mosbate City - Pasacao: Milagros - San Remigio - Bogo - Ormoc: Talisay - Leganes: San Carlos - Naga - Toledo - Baclayon - Tagbilaran: Bacong - Cagayan de Oro, Phillipines |
Huawei Marine |
Converge ICT |
? |
System 1300 km. |
|
2021 |
GLO-2:- Lagos - Bonny - Kwa Ibo, Nigeria |
Huawei Marine |
Globalcom |
? |
System 850 km. |
|
2021 |
GCIS:- Guadeloupe Cable des Isles du Sud:- Beausejour - St François - St Louis - Capesterre Belle Eau - Terre de Haut, Guadeloupe |
ASN |
Regional Council of Guadeloupe |
Pierre de Fermat. |
System 118 km. 24 fibre optic pairs |
|
2021 |
H2HE:- Hainan to Hong Kong Express:- Wenchang - Zhuhai, China - Hong Kong. |
Huawei Marine |
China Mobile |
? |
System 780 km. RFS Second quarter 2021 |
16 fibre pairs of 19.2 Tb/s per fibre pair |
2021 |
CC2:- Havhingsten/CeltixConnect 2:- Dublin, Ireland - Port Erin - Port Grenaugh, Isle of Man - Blackpool, England |
? |
Aqua Comms - Bulk |
? |
System 300 km. RFS Second quarter 2021 |
|
2021 |
NSC:- Havhingsten/North Sea Connect:- Houstrup, Denmark - Newcastle on Tyne, England |
? |
Aqua Comms - Bulk |
? |
Systm 700 km. RFS Second quarter 2021 |
|
2021 |
Havsil:- Hanstholm, Denmark - Kristiansand, Norway |
? |
Bulk |
|
System 120 km. RFS Fourth quarter 2021 |
|
2021 |
MSC:- Maldives Sri Lanka Cable:- Hulhumale, Maldives - Mt Lavinia, Sri Lanka |
Huawei Marine |
Ooredoo Maldives - Dhiraagu - Dialog Axiata |
? |
System 863 km. RFS February 2021 |
|
2021 |
Mandji Fibre Optic Cable:- Cabo San Juan - Corisco, Equatorial Guinea |
? |
GITGE |
? |
System 50 km. |
|
2021 |
Maroc Telecom West Africa:- Casablanca, Morocco - Libreville, Gabon. Branching units connect:- Abidjan, Ivory Coast - Lome, Togo - Cotonou, Benin |
? |
Maroc Telecom |
? |
System 8200 km. |
|
2021 |
N0r5ke Viking:- Trondheim - Brekstad - Equinor Tjeldbegodden - Kristiansund - Molde - Andalsnes - Herlandsvika - Alesund - Aheim - Lefdal - Florø - Hyllestad - Sture - Bergen, Norway |
? |
N0r5ke Fibre AS |
? |
System 810 km. 72 fibre pairs. RFS Third quarter 2021 |
|
2021 |
SHARE:- Senegal Horn of Africa Regional Express Cable:- Dakar, Senegal - Praia, Cape Verde Islands |
? |
? |
? |
System 720 km. RFS Fourth quarter 2021 |
|
2021 |
SIGMAR:- Tuas, Singapore - Thanlyin, Myanmar |
? |
Campana Group |
? |
System 2227 km. 4 fibre pairs. |
|
2021 |
Tokelau Submarine Cable:- Atafu - Nukunonu - Fakaofa, Tokelau |
? |
Teletok |
? |
System 250 km. |
|
2021 |
Ultramar GE:- Annobon, Equatorial Guinea - Sao Tome, Sao Tome and Principe Islands |
? |
GITGE |
? |
System 263 km. |
|
2021 |
Kaliningrad Cable:- Kaliningrad - Kingisepp, Russia |
? |
Rostelcom |
? |
System 1115 km. |
|
2021 |
Sape-LabuanBajo-Ende-Kupang Cable:- Cable 1 Sape - LabuanBajo, Indonesia: Cable 2 Ende - Kupang, Indonesia |
? |
Moratelindo |
? |
System 474 km. |
|
2021 |
Scylla:- Lowestoft, England - Ijmuiden, Netherlands |
? |
euNetworks |
? |
System 204 km. RFS August 2021 |
|
2021 |
SPCS:- South Pacific Cable System/MISTRAL: Valparaiso - Arica, Chile - Lurin, Peru - Salinas, Ecuador - Puerto San Jose, Guatamala |
Subcom |
América Môvil - Telxius |
? |
System 7300 km. RFS August 2021 |
|
2021 |
Minoas East and West:- Neapoli - Nopigeia, Greece. |
|
Grid Telecom |
|
System 2 x 135 km. Minoas East and West are 2 fibre optic cables attached to 2 power cables, each of 135 km. West RFS May 2021 and East RFS December 2021 |
|
|
2022 |
Grace Hopper: New York, USA - Bude, Cornwall, England - Bilbao, Spain |
SubCom |
Google |
? |
The main trunk is 6,354km, with an 837km branch to Spain. Both have 16 fibre pairs with fibre optic switching. Each pair has a total design capacity of approximately 22Tbps, and the system design capacity is approximately 352Tbps |
Named after Admiral Grace Hopper
Opened for service between New York and Cornwall on 27 September 2022 |
2022 |
Grace Hopper:- New York, USA - Bude, Cornwall, England - Bilbao, Spain |
Alcatel Submarine Networks |
Google |
|
|
|
2022 |
AURORA:- Sarasota, Florida - Cancún, Mexico - Belize City, Belize - Puerto Barrios, Guatemala - Trujillo, Honduras - Bluefields, Nicaragua - Puerto Limon, Costa Rica - Cartagena, Colombia - Maria Chiquita - Balboa, Panama - Manta, Ecuador - Valparaiso, Chile |
ASN |
FP Telecommunications |
|
System 5500 km. RFS October 2022. |
Maximum capacity 15 Tb/s |
2022 |
Southern Cross NEXT:- Alexandria, Australia - Hermosa Beach, California, USA. Branching units link the following to the main cable. Takapuna, New Zealand - Suva - Savusavu, Fiji - Nukunonu, Tokealau - Apia, Samoa - Kiritimati, Kiribati |
ASN |
Spark New Zealand - Singtel Optus - Verizon |
? |
System 13483 km. 4 fibre pairs each of 18 Tb/s. 2 fibre pairs Australia - USA. 2 fibre pairs USA - New Zealand. Fij, Samoa, Tokelau and Kiribati are linked to the main cable via branching units. |
Maximum capacity 72 Tb/s |
2022 |
SJC2: South East Asia - Japan Cable:- Chikura - Shima, Japan - Pusan, Korea - Lingang, China - Tanshui - Fangshan, Taiwan - Chung Hom Kok, Hong Kong - Quy Nhon, Vietnam - Songkhla, Thailand - Changi South, Singapore |
NEC |
China Telecom - Chungwha Telecom - Facebook - KDDI - Chuan Wei - Singtel - SK Broadband - VNPT - Vinaphone - True Corp. |
? |
System 10500 km. |
Maximum capacity 144 Tb/s |
2022 |
Amitie:- Lynn, Massachusetts, USA - Bude, Cornwall, England - Le Porge, France |
ASN |
Facebook - Vodaphone - Microsoft - Aqua Comms |
? |
System 6792 km. RFS First quarter 2022 |
Segment 1.1 Lynn to BU 1 16 fibre pairs. Segment 1.2 BU 1 to Bude 12 fibre pairs. Segment 1.3 BU 1 to Le Porge 12 fibre pairs. Each fibre pair 20 Tb/s. capacity |
2022 |
ADC:- Asia Direct Cable:- Maruyama, Japan - Tuas, Singapore. Connections to the following via branching units:- Shantou - Chung Hom Kok, China - Batangas, Philippines - Quy Nhon, Vietnam - Sriracha, Thailand |
NEC |
PLDT - National Telecom - China Telecom - China Unicom - Singtel - Softbank Corp - Tata Communications - Viettel Corporation |
? |
System 9400 km. RFS Fourth quarter 2022. |
Maximum capacity 140 Tb/s |
2022 |
AU-Aleutian:- Kodiak - Larsen Bay - Chignik Bay - Chignik Lagoon - Chignik Lake - Perryville - Sand Point - Kings Cove - Cold Bay - False Pass - Akuten - Unalaska, Alaska, USA |
? |
GCI |
? |
System 1311 km. |
|
2022 |
CAP 1:- Grover Beach, California, USA - Pagudpud, Philippines. Originally named BtoBE. |
? |
China Mobile - Facebook - Amazon Web Services |
? |
System 12000 km. 6 fibre pairs. China Mobile will own 3 fibre pairs. Amazon ½ a fibre pair and Facebook 2½ fibre pairs. RFS Fourth quarter 2022 |
Maximum capacity 108 Tb/s |
2022 |
Gondwana 2/Picot 2:- Suva, Fiji - Quanono - Tadine - Yate - Noumea - Vao, New Caledonia |
? |
OPT |
? |
System ? |
|
2022 |
Havtor:- Hanstholm, Denmark - Lista, Norway |
? |
Nordic Consulting AS |
? |
System 165 km. RFS Third quarter 2022 |
|
2022 |
IRIS:- Molvik, Iceland - Galway, Ireland |
? |
Farice |
? |
System 1607 km. RFS October 2022 |
|
2022 |
Maple Leaf Fibre:- Kingston - Toronto, Ontario, Canada. This is a submarine cable extension to the Montreal - Kingston landline |
? |
Maple Leaf Fibre |
? |
System 290 km. RFS December 2022 |
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2022 |
MIST:- Myanmar/Malaysia India Singapore Transit:- Chennai, India - Tuas, Singapore. Links to the following are provided via branching units. Mumbai, India - Letkokkon, Myanmar - Thailand - Morib, Malaysia |
NEC |
Orient Link |
? |
System 8100 km. 12 fibre pairs, each pair providing 18 Tb/s. |
|
2022 |
Natitua Sud:- Hitia'a - Rurutu - Tubuai, French Polynesia |
ASN |
OPT |
Ile de Batz |
System 820 km. RFS Third quarter 2022 |
|
2022 |
SednaLink Fibre:- Iqaluit, Nunavut, Canada - Clarenville, Newfoundland, Canada |
? |
CanArctic Inuit Networks |
? |
System 2104 km. RFS Second quarter 2022 |
|
2022 |
TCFO:- Trans Caspian Fibre Optic:- Aktau, Kazakhstan - Slyazan, Azerbaijan |
? |
Azertelecom - Transtlecom Kazakhstan |
? |
System 341 km. RFS Fourth quarter 2022 |
|
2022 |
GigNet-1:- Cancûn, Mexico - Boca Raton, Florida, USA |
Xtera |
FB Submarine Partners |
? |
System 1104 km. RFS fourth quarter 2022 |
|
2022 |
IONIAN:- Preveza, Greece - Crotone, Italy |
? |
IslaLink |
? |
System 320 km. RFS fourth quarter 2022 |
|
2022 |
Zeus:- Lowestoft, England - Zandvoort, Netherlands |
Hexatronic |
Zayo Group |
? |
System ? RFS first quarter 2022 |
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2022 |
Hronn:- Fano - Halfdan - Tyra, Denmark |
? |
Shefa |
? |
System 270 km. |
|
2022 |
N0r5ke Viking:- Bergen - Sture - Hyllestad - Florø - Lefdal - Åheim - Ålesund - Herlandsvika - Molde - Andalsnes - Kristiansund - Equinor Tjeldbergodden - Brekstad - Trondheim, Norway |
? |
NOR5KE Fibre AS |
? |
System 810 km. |
|
2022 |
Scotland - Northern Ireland 3:- Portpatrick, Scotland - Donaghadee, Northern Ireland |
? |
BT |
? |
System 42 km. |
|
2022 |
Scotland - Northern Ireland 4:- Girvan, Scotland - Larne, Northern Ireland |
? |
BT |
? |
System 85 km. |
|
2022 |
Groix 4 |
Prysmian |
Orange |
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System 7 km. Power cable operated by Enedis with a fibre optic cable of 24 pairs alongside operated by Orange |
|
2022 |
Petropavlovsk - Kamchatsky - Anadyr, Russia |
Huawei |
|
|
System 2173 km. |
|
2022 |
SCIP: Submarine Cable in the Philippines: Batangas - Pinamalayan - Roxas - Nabas - Daanbantayan - Liloan: Liloan - Ormac: Talisay - Dumaguete - Cagayan de Oro: Maasin - Butuan City: San Jose - Coron - Taytay: Matnog - Ailen, Philippines |
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DITO Telecommunity |
|
System 1638 km. |
|
|
2023 |
AFRICA-1:- Marseille, France - Bejaia, Algeria - Bizerte, Tunisia - Palermo, Sicily - Port Said - Ras Ghareb, Egypt - Duba, Saudi Arabia - Port Sudan, Sudan - Mocha, Yemen - Djibouti City, Djibouti - Berbera, Somalia - Mombasa, Kenya. Connections to Kalba, UAE and Karachi, Pakistan via branching unit. Extensions to Dar es Salaam, Tanzania - Maputo, Mozambique - Amanzimoti, South Africa may be added later. |
ASN |
Airtel - PCCW Global - BICS - China Telecom - MTM Group - Mauritius Telecom - Telecom Egypt - Sudatel - Zain Sudan - Telma - Etisalat - STC - PTCL |
? |
System 10000 km. RFS last quarter 2023 |
|
2023 |
2AFRICA:- Bude, Cornwall, England - Carcavelos, Portugal - Dakar, Senegal - Abijdan, Ivory Coast - Accra, Ghana - Lagos, Nigeria - Libreville, Gabon - Pointe-Noire, Congo Republic - Muanda, Democratic Republic of Congo - Cape Town - Port Elizabeth - Mtunzini, South Africa - Maputo, Mozambique - Mahajanga, Madagascar - Dar es Salaam, Tanzania - Mombasa, Kenya - Mogadishu, Somalia - Salalah, Oman - Djibouti City, Djibouti - Port Sudan, Sudan - Yanbu, Saudi Arabia - Ras Gharab - Zafarana - Port Said - Suez, Egypt - Genoa, Italy - Marseille, France - Barcelona, Spain |
ASN |
China Mobile International - Djibouti Telecom - Facebook - MTN GlobalConnect, Orange, Saudi Telecom Co. (STC) - Telecom Egypt - WIOCC |
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System 37000 km. Using aluminium conductor |
Maximum capacity 180 Tb/s |
2023 |
BSCS:- Boriken Submarine Cable System:- Macao Beach, Dominican Republic - Aguadilla - Ponce - Humacao, Puerto Rico - Frederiksted, US Virgin Islands |
? |
Blackburn Technologies LLC |
? |
System 670 km. RFS Fourth quarter 2023 |
|
2023 |
Celtic Norse:- Killala, Ireland - Caithness, Scotland - Øysanden, Norway |
? |
Eidsiva Energi - NTE - TrønderEnergi |
? |
System 2243 km. RFS Fourth quarter 2023 |
|
2023 |
CONFLUENCE 1:- Wall Township, New Jersey - Virginia Beach, Virginia - Myrtle Beach, South Carolina - Jacksonville - Sunny Isles, Florida, USA |
? |
Confluence Networks |
? |
System 2571 km. |
|
2023 |
Nzadi Cable System:- Cabinda - Soyo - Luanda, Angola |
? |
Kakike, Lda - KumoxiCom, Lda |
|
System ? |
|
2023 |
Cuba - Shoeicher, Martinique |
? |
Orange |
? |
System 2470 km. |
|
2023 |
DJSC; Darwin - Jakarta - Singapore Cable:- Port Hedland, Western Australia. Links to ASC Australia - Singapore Cable |
? |
Vocus |
? |
System 1000 km. |
|
2023 |
ECHO:- Eureka, California, USA -Agat - Piti, Guam - Ngeremlengui, Palau - Tanjung Pakis, Indonesia - Changi North, Singapore |
NEC |
Facebook - Google |
? |
System 17184 km |
|
2023 |
Firmina:- Las Toninas, Argentina - Punta del Este, Uruguay - Praia Grande, Brazil - USA |
TE Subcom |
Google |
? |
System ? |
|
2023 |
India Asia Express (IAX) Tuas, Singapore - Morib. Malaysia - Satun, Thailand - Matara, Sri Lanka - Chennai- Mumbai, India |
TE Subcom |
Reliance Jio Infocomm + others as yet unnamed |
? |
System 5791 km. |
|
2023 |
Cook Strait:- Fighting Bay, South Island - Oteranga Bay, North Island, New Zealand |
|
Transpower NZ |
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2023 |
BNCS-1:- Biznet Nusantara Cable System-1: Anyer - Kalianda, Indonesia - Muntok - Sungsang, Indonesia |
CCSI |
Biznet |
|
System 818 km. RFS 1st quarter 2023 |
? |
2023 |
Saudi Vision |
ASN |
Saudi Telecom |
? |
System 1071 km. RFS 1st quarter 2023 |
|
2023 |
Topaz:- Vancouver - Port Alberni, Canada - Takahagi - Shima, Japan |
? |
Google |
? |
? |
|
2023 |
ECHO:- Eureka, California USA - Piti - Agat, Guam - Ngeremengui, Palau - Tanjung Pakis - Changi North, Singapore |
|
Google - Meta |
? |
System 17184 km. RFS 3rd quarter 2023 |
|
2023 |
BNCS 1 Biznet Nusantara Cable System -1: Anyer - Kalianda: Muntok - Sungsang, Indonesia |
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Biznet |
|
System 818 km. |
|
2023 |
Digital E4: Sassnitz, Germany - Ronne, Denmark - Simrishamn, Sweden: Tjen, Denmark - Gronhogen, Sweden - Byxelkrok - Klintehamn, Sweden: Kappelshamn - Stockholm, Sweden |
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Global Connect |
|
System 70 km. |
|
2023 |
FISH in AK: Fibre Internet Serving Homes in Alaska: |
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Codova Telecom Co-operative |
|
System 276 km. RFS 3rd quarter 2023 |
|
2023 |
Hokkaido-Akita Cable: Akita - Sapporo, Japan |
|
KDDI - NTT - Softbank Corp |
|
System 770 km. |
|
2023 |
Ionian: Crotone, Italy - Preveza, Greece |
|
IslaLink |
|
System 320 km. |
|
2023 |
Medloop: Barcelona, Spain - Marseille, France - Ajaccio, Corsica - Genoa, Italy |
|
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System 1360 km. |
|
2023 |
Norfest: Stavanger - Egersund - Lista - Havsil - Arendal - Larvik - Moss - Oslo, Norway - Stromstad, Sweden |
|
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System 749 km. |
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2023 |
PDSCN: Philippine Domestic Submarine Cable Network: Ilijan - Pinamalayan - Caticlan: Lucena - Boac - Calatrava Pasacao - Roxas City - Placer - Palampon - Liloan - Maasin - Surigao City: Bulan - Palanas - Calbayog: Siargo Island - Caagdinao: Camguin Island - Kinoguitan: Hoilo City - Bacolod: San Carlos - Toledo: Talisay - Tagbilaran - Baclayon - Cagayon de Oro - Dipolog City - Zamboanguita - Liloy - Zamboanga City, Philippines |
Nexans |
Eastern Telecom - Globe Telecom - Infiniva Inc. |
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System 2500 km. |
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2023 |
Piano Isole Minori: Termoli - San Domingo: Gaeta - Ponza - Santo Stefano: Capraia Isola - Portoferraio, Italy: Cala d'Oliva - Stintino: Portoscuso - Carloforte, Sardinia: Stromboli - Panarea - Lipari - Patti - Malfa - Filicudi Porto - Alicudi Porto: Palermo - Ustica: Trapani - Levanzo - Marettimo: Marsala - Pantelleria - Lampedusa - Linosa, Sicily |
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Infratel Italia |
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System 830 km. |
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2023 |
R100 North: Belmont - Gutcher: Burravoe - Mossbank: Skelberry - Symbister: Sumburgh - Fair Isle - Scuthvie Bay: Rapness - Cusbay: Bay of London - Gump of Spurness - Stove: Westness - Evie: Sandgarth - Linksness: Hoxa - Quoyness: Crockness - Weddel, Orkneys: Morar - Laig: Port Ramsay - Port Appin: Bailemor - Fionnphort: Scoor - Kiloran Bay, Hebrides |
Nexans |
BT |
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System 224 km. RFS 1st quarter 2023 |
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2023 |
Trans Adriatic Express (TAE) |
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EXA Infrastructure -TAP AG |
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System 106 km. RFS May 2023 |
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2023 |
UNSC: Unitel North Submarine Cable: Cacongo - N'zeto, Angola - Cabinda - Soyo, Angola |
HMN Tech |
Unitel, Angola |
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System 1145 km |
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2023 |
T3: Baie Jacotet, Mauritius - Amanzimtoti, South Africa |
ASN |
Liquid Intelligent Technologies - Mauritius Telecom |
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System 3200 km. RFS 4th quarter 2023 |
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2023 |
Red2Med: Port Said - Suez - Zafarana - Ras Gharab, Egypt |
ASN |
Telecom Egypt |
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System 420 km. |
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2023 |
Firmina: Myrtle Beach, SC, USA - Praia Grande, Brazil - Punta del Este, Uruguay - Las Toninas, Argentina |
Subcom |
Google |
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System 14517 km. |
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2024 |
H2 Cable:- Main branch:- Sydney - Brisbane, Australia - Chung Hom Kok, Hong Kong. Branching units link Toucheng, Taiwan and Shanghai, China to this cable and Guam, Madang - Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea. Second branch:- Sydney, Australia - Los Angeles, California, USA. Branching units link Honiara, Solomon Islands and Kapolei, Hawaii |
Subcom |
H2 Cable |
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System, Sydney - Hong Kong 9200 km. 15Tb/s per fibre pair. Sydney - Los Angeles 12500 km. 12.9Tb/s per fibre pair. Number of fibre pairs not known at this point. |
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2024 |
CARIBBEAN EXPRESS:- West Palm Beach, Florida - Cancûn, Mexico - Maria Chiquita, Panama - Cartagena, Colombia. Connections to Honduras, Guatamala, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Grand Cayman and Jamaica will be added later. |
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Ocean Networks |
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System 3427 km. RFS Second quarter 2024 |
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2024 |
APRICOT:- Main cable Tuas, Singapore - Minamiboso, Japan. Branching units link the following - Jakarta, Indonesia. Davao - Baier, Philippines. Toucheng, Taiwan. Piti, Guam |
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Google - Facebook - Chunwa Telecom - NTT - PLDT |
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System 12000 km. RFS fourth quarter 2024 |
Initial capacity 190 Tb/s |
2024 |
DEEP BLUE ONE:- Cayenne, French Guiana - Paramaribo, Suriname - Georgetown, Guyana - Rocky Bay - Chaguaramas, Trinidad and Tobago |
ASN |
Digicel |
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System 2000 km. |
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2024 |
Leif Erikson:- Goose Bay, Newfoundland - Stavanger, Norway |
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Bulkinfrastructure |
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System 4200 km. RFS third quarter 2024 |
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2024 |
India Europe Express (IEX) Mumbai, India - Salalah, Oman - Djibouti City, Djibouti - Yanbu - Duba, Saudi Arabia - Zafarana - Sidi Kerir, Egypt - Timpaki, Greece - Savona, Italy |
TE Subcom |
Reliance Jio Infocomm + others as yet unnamed. |
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System9775 km |
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2024 |
Asia Connect Cable (ACC 1):- MAIN CABLE:- Darwin, Australia - Manado, Indonesia - Guam - USA. Branch:- Dili, Timor-Leste - Makassar - Jakarta - Batam, Indonesia - Singapore - Medan, Indonesia |
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Inligo Networks |
? |
System 18000 km. RFS 2024 |
? |
2024 |
Apollo East and West: Korakia - Pachi, Greece. Consists of 2 fibre optic cables each 335 km in length running in parallel with but not attached to 2 power cables. |
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Grid Telecom |
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System 2 x 335 km. RFS 2nd quarter 2024. |
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2024 |
BLUE:- Marseille - Bastia, France - Genoa - Golfo Aranchi - Rome - Palermo, Italy - Chania, Greece - Yeroskipos, Cyprus - Tel Aviv, Israel. The by landline to Aqaba, Jordan. |
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Google - Omantel - Telecom Italia Sparkle |
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System ? |
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2024 |
Bifrost:- USA - Guam - Davao, Philippines - Singapore. Landing points to be confirmed. |
ASN |
Keppel T&T - Meta - Telin |
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Syatem 15000 km. |
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2024 |
Raman:- Mumbai, India - Barka - Salalah, Oman - Haramous, Djibouti - Duba, Saudi Arabia - Aqaba, Jordan |
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Google - Omantel - Telecom Italia Sparkle |
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System ? |
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2024 |
Anjana: Santander, Spain - Myrtle Beach, USA |
NEC |
Meta |
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System 7121 km. RFS 4th quarter 2024 |
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2024 |
Apollo East and West: Korakia - Pachi, Greece |
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Grid Telecom |
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System 670 km. RFS 2nd quarter 2024. 2 fibre optic cables running in parallel to 2 power cables but not attached |
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2024 |
CADMOS 2 |
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Cyta - Lebanese Ministry of Telecommunications |
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2024 |
East Coast Cable System: Melbourne - Sydney - Brisbane, Australia |
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Vocus Communications |
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System 1600 km. |
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2024 |
Eastern Light Sweden - Finland 2: Kista, Sweden - Kokar - Hanko - Espoo, Finland |
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Eastern Light |
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2024 |
Medusa Submarine Cable System: Carcavelos - Sines, Portugal - Zahara de los Atunes - Torreguadiaro, Spain - Tetouan - Nador, Morocco - Algiers, Algeria - Barcelona, Spain - Marseille, France - Collo, Algeria - Bizerte, Tunisia - Mazara del Vallo, Italy - Heraklion, Greece - Yeroskipos, Cyprus - Port Said, Egypt |
ASN |
AFRIX Telecom |
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System 8760 km. RFS 3rd quarter 2024 |
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2024 |
N0r5ke Viking 2: Bergen - Haugesund - Havil - Stavanger - Tanangr - Egersund - Lista - Havsil - Arendal - Larvick - Horten - Bunnefjorden - Oslo, Norway - Lagunen, Sweden |
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Nor5ke Fibre AS |
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System 900 km. RFS 3rd quarter 2024 |
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2024 |
Olisipo: Carcavelos - Sines, Portugal |
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EllaLink |
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System 110 km. |
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2024 |
Raman: Aqaba, Jordan - Duba, Saudi Arabia - Haramous, Djibouti - Salalah - Barka, Oman - Mumbai, India |
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Google - Telecom Italia Sparkle - Omantel |
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System 7028 km. |
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2024 |
SEA-H2X: Chung Hom Kok - Lingshui, China - La Union, Philippines - Kuching, Malaysia - Songkhla, Thailand - Tuas, Singapore |
HMN Tech |
China Mobile - China Unicom - Converge ICT - PP Telecommunication Sdn Bhd |
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System 5000 km. |
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2025 |
SEALink:- Coffman Cove - Lena Point, Alaska, USA |
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Alaska Power & Telephone Company (AP&T) |
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System 345 km. |
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2025 |
CSN-1:- Carnival Submarine Network-1: Naples, Florida, USA - Barranquilla, Colombia - Panama City, Panama - Cristobal - Ancon, Ecuador. |
ASN |
Telconet |
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System 4500 km. |
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2025 |
Hawaiki Nui:- Los Angeles - Kawaihae - Kapolei, Hawaii - Darwin, Australia - Jakarta - Batam, Indonesia - Singapore. Via branching unit Brisbane - Sydney - Melbourne, Australia - Invercargill - Dunedin - Christchurch, New Zealand |
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Hawaiki Submarine Cable LP |
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System 25000 km. |
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2025 |
SeaMeWe 6:- Marseille, France - Mazara, Italy - Athens, Greece - Port Said - Ras Ghareb, Egypt - Yanbu, Saudi Arabia - Djibouti City, Djibouti - Karachi, Pakistan - Mumbai, India - Hulhumale, Maldives - Matara, Sri Lanka - Chennai, India - Cox's Bazaar, Bangladesh - Morib, Malaysia - Tuas, Singapore |
Subcom |
Bangladesh Submarine Cable Company - Bharti Airtel Ltd - Dhiraagu (Maldives) - Djibouti Telecom - Mobily - Orange - Singtel - Sri Lanka Telecom - Telecom Egypt - Telekom Malaysia - Telin - Trans World Associates |
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System 19200 km. RFS 1st quarter 2025 |
10 fibre pairs, 12.6 Tbps per fibre pair. Maximum capacity 126 Tbps. |
2025 |
ACC 1: Asia Connect Cable: Hermosa Beach, California - Alupang, Guam - Davao, Philppines - Darwin, Australia - Manado - Indonesia - Dili, Timor-Leste - Makassar - Jakarta - Batam, Indonesia |
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Inligo Networks |
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System 18000 km. |
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2025 |
EMC: East Micronesia Cable: Bairiki, Kiribati - Yaren, Nauru - Tofol - Pohnpei, Micronesia |
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BwebwerikiNET Ltd. (BNL) - Federated States of Micronesia Telecoomunications Company - Nauru Fibre Cable Corporation |
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System 2000 km. |
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2025 |
Gold Data: Naples, Florida - Cancun - Vera Cruz, Mexico |
ASN |
Gold Data |
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System 2333 km. |
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2025 |
Unitirreno Cable |
ASN |
Unidata |
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System 1030 km. RFS 3rd quarter 2025 |
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2026 |
Polar Express:- Murmansk - Okrug - Dikson - Sakah Republic - Pevek - Anadyr - Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky - Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk - Nadhodka - Vladivostok, Russia |
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Rostelcom |
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System 12650 km. |
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2026 |
WALL LI: Wall Towship, New Jersey - Westbury, New York |
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Crosslake Fibre |
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System 125 km |
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2026 |
SING: Singapore India Gateway Cable - Tuas, Singapore - Satun, Thailand - Chennai - Visakhapatnam - Mumbai - Mundra, India - Salalah, Oman |
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Datawave Networks - Plus others as yet to be disclosed |
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System 10189 km. |
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2026 |
CX: Caribbean Express: Boca Raton, Florida - Cancun, Mexico - Puerto Cortes, Honduras - Maria Chiquita, Panama - Cartagena, Colombia |
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Ocean Networks |
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System 3472 km. RFS 3rd quarter 2026 |
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