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Subsea network coverage
Tracking cable systems, landing stations, marine routes, coherent transmission, financing and the cloud-driven expansion of global capacity.
Coverage architecture
Converge Digest follows the submarine cable systems carrying international traffic between continents. Coverage spans new routes, cable ownership, hyperscaler investment, landing stations, wet-plant technology, coherent transmission, marine installation and geopolitical resilience.
New routes, consortium structures, ownership and capacity design.
See the companies ↓02Fiber pairs, repeaters, branching units and marine engineering.
See the companies ↓03Cable landing stations, terrestrial backhaul and data center interconnection.
See the companies ↓04Financing, route diversity, regulation, repair and geopolitical risk.
See the companies ↓Latest reporting
Sparkle, in collaboration with Trans Ocean Network, inaugurated the Panama Digital Gateway (PDG), a next generation, carrier-neutral, open landing station, data center and connectivity…
NTT Ltd. inaugurated its latest hyperscale data center campus, Chennai 2, and the arrival of its subsea cable system – MIST in the city. …
Alcatel Submarine Networks (ASN) and Elettra Tlc were awarded the construction contract for the Medusa Submarine Cable System. The Medusa subsea cable will link…
NEC signed a contract for construction, supply and installation of an optical fibre submarine cable system to be called East Micronesia Cable System (EMCS).…
Farice has deployed Ciena’s GeoMesh Extreme submarine network solution to support its recently launched IRIS cable system connecting southwest Iceland to Galway, Ireland, with…
Orange Tunisia and Medusa Submarine Cable System signed an agreement to deploy a submarine cable stretching from Lisbon to the Egyptian city of Port…
EllaLink and EXA Infrastructure announced a joint transatlantic service connecting South America with the heart of Europe’s main business centres EllaLink operates a high-capacity…
Telecom Egypt announed that the 2Africa subsea cable has landed in Port Said, on the Mediterranean coast approximately 250 km of Alexandria. This comes…
BlueMed, Sparkle’s new cable that will connect Italy with France, Greece and several countries bordering the Mediterranean, has landed in Palermo, thus marking the…
Nokia’s next-generation PSE-V super coherent optics have been tested successfully on PT Telekomunikasi Indonesia International (Telin)’s Indonesia Global Gateway’s (IGG) submarine live network. The…
Zayo announced a new direct subsea cable route connecting Manchester to New York. The route avoids avoids backhauling to global Internet hubs in London…
Omantel, in collaboration with UAE-based du, announced plans to build a 275-km submarine cable to serve as an express connection between both countries. The…
Paratus, a network operator serving seven African countries – Angola, Botswana, DRC, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, and Zambia – has selected Infinera’s ICE6 800G…
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Industry ecosystem
Submarine cables carry effectively all intercontinental traffic. Five groups of companies build, light, lay and pay for them.
Turnkey suppliers delivering wet plant, terminal equipment and installation.
Coherent line terminals and the DSPs setting per-fiber-pair capacity.
Fiber, armouring and cable production for deep-water and shore-end segments.
Cable ship operators handling laying, burial and the repair fleet resilience depends on.
Hyperscalers now fund and own a majority of new transoceanic capacity.
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