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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
EXA Infrastructure (EXA) has deployed Infinera’s ICE6 800G coherent optical solution on the EXA Trans Adriatic Express (TAE), a submarine cable system linking EXA’s…
Hawaiki Submarine Cable achieved recrod subsea spectral efficiency of more than 4.5 bits per second per hertz (b/s/Hz) on an uncompensated cable spanning 15,000…
Australia Japan Cable (AJC) is the first to trial Infinera’s advanced coherent algorithms for next-generation optical engines. The trial was conducted over a 7,289-km…
Asia Submarine-cable Express (ASE), a consortium subsea cable running a total of 8,148km between Japan to Hong Kong, Malaysia, the Philippines, and Singapore, is…
Equinix disclosed plans to open a second data center in Barcelona to serve as a hub for the growing subsea cables landing in the…
América Móvil and Telxius are planning a subsea cable linking Guatemala and the United States. The cable, named AMX3 by América Móvil and Tikal…
The transpacific Unity Submarine Cable System, which spans 9,620 kilometers between Japan and the U.S., will double its capacity by upgrading to Infinera’s ICE6…
Southern Cross Cables Limited has activated commercial 400GbE services on its Southern Cross NEXT cable, which links Australia, New Zealand and the United States.…
China Telecom Global Limited (CTG)confirmed that the Asia Direct Cable (ADC) has officially landed its Hong Kong segment at SUNeVision’s HKIS-1 located at Chung…
The U.S. Department of Justice’s Committee for the Assessment of Foreign Participation in the United States Telecommunications Services Sector, which is informally known as…
The IRIS Sub-Sea Telecoms Cable System connecting Galway, Ireland to Iceland has now been completed. The IRIS system will be ready for service in…
Gold Data announced plans for a major subsea cable connecting Miami with multiple landing stations in Mexico. The 10-fiber pair cable system will offer…
China Telecom Global, Globe Telecom, DITO Telecommunity (Philippines), Singtel, and Unified National Networks (Brunei) reached an agreement to invest about $300 million for a…
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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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