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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
Google unveiled plans for new private subsea cable connecting Lisbon, Portugal and Cape Town, South Africa with branching units along the west coast of…
América Móvil and Telxius are planning a new undersea cable along the Pacific coast of Latin America. The 7,300 km cable will have an…
Aqua Comms will interconnect its America Europe Connect-2 (AEC-2) subsea cable system at Interxion’s data center in Copenhagen. AEC-2 is Aqua Comms’s portion of…
Hawaiki Submarine Cable activated a new direct route to Los Angeles for its transpacific network linking Australia, New Zealand and the United States. The…
Huawei Technologies has agreed to sell its 51% stake in Huawei Marine Systems Co Ltd to Hengtong Optic-Electric Co Ltd, a supplier of optical…
The INDIGO subsea cable system, which connects Australia and Southeast Asia, is officially ready for use. INDIGO features two-fibre pairs with a design capacity…
Huawei Marine is estimated to be building about 30 subsea cables at the moment, most under 1,000km in length, and is making rapid strides…
Telecom Egypt entered agreements enabling the Pakistan & East Africa Connecting Europe (PEACE) subsea cable system to cross Egypt through new diversified terrestrial routes…
Following repairs to a subsea cable linking Greenland and Canada, connectivity has been restored to customers north of the town of Sisimiut. The population…
Alcatel Submarine Networks has finalized the Cable Route Study and mobilized the marine survey vessel for the EllaLink submarine cable system. A marine route…
CloudSmartz will provide a fully integrated customer portal solution to automate Seaborn’s front-office processes. Seaborn’s Seabras-1 offers the only direct POP-POP route between São…
Google’s subsea cable along the west coast of the Americas made landfall in Valparaiso, Chile. The Curie Submarine Cable will be a four fiber-pair…
Kanawa, a new subsea cable owned and operated by Orange in the Caribbean, is powered by Infinera’s fourth-generation Infinite Capacity Engine (ICE4)-based XTS 3600…
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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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