Subsea

A new subsea cable system dubbed AAE-2 is set to boost international connectivity between Asia, Africa, and Europe. The Asia-Africa-Europe-2 project is being developed by a consortium of PCCW Global,...

SubCom has reached a historic milestone, becoming the first company to deploy over one million kilometers of subsea cable. The achievement was recognized at a special event on the company’s...

Flexential announced that the Bifrost Cable System’s Winema, Oregon landing station is now ready-for-service, establishing a direct subsea link between North America and key Southeast Asian markets. Hosted on Flexential’s...

Space Norway and SubCom have finalized a contract to build and deploy the Arctic Way Cable System, a high-capacity subsea network that will connect mainland Norway to Jan Mayen and...

Moratelindo, one of Indonesia’s largest telecom infrastructure providers, has selected Ribbon Communications to enhance its submarine network between Jakarta and Singapore with next-generation optical transport and automation solutions. The 1,055-kilometer...

A coalition of Europe’s top telecom operators and subsea infrastructure players—including Alcatel Submarine Networks, Orange, Vodafone, Telefónica, and Telenor—have issued an open letter to the European Union, the United Kingdom,...

SoftBank, alongside members of the E2A Consortium, has announced the start of construction on the E2A submarine cable system, a new transpacific fiber optic network that will connect Japan, Taiwan,...

Sparkle and Turkcell have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to develop a new subsea cable solution connecting Izmir, Türkiye, to Milan, Italy. Announced during MWC 2025 in Barcelona, the...

Meta has announced Project Waterworth, its most extensive subsea cable initiative to date. Spanning over 50,000 km (31,000 miles), the system will connect five continents, including the U.S., India, Brazil,...

Ooredoo Group has partnered with Alcatel Submarine Networks (ASN) to develop the Fibre in Gulf (FIG) submarine cable, a major subsea infrastructure project that will connect Qatar, Oman, the UAE, Bahrain, Saudi...

Telstra International outlined its ambitious vision to transform its international network into a highly autonomous, AI-driven system to meet growing demands for bandwidth and enhanced resilience. The upgraded network will deliver over 800...

MOX Networks, a fiber-optic network operator owned by Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong , has acquired spectrum on Google’s Topaz subsea cable system, the first fiber cable connecting Canada to Asia. The...

Southern Cross Cable Limited achieved a major milestone by deploying the world’s first transpacific 1 Tb/s single-carrier wavelength transmission leveraging Ciena’s WaveLogic 6 Extreme (WL6e) coherent optics. The record-breaking achievement...