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Submarine Cable Infrastructure
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Africa Regional ISP
Angola Cables links subsea network to local cloud services
Angola Cables is pairing its subsea network with local cloud and AI infrastructure, including two TelCables cloud nodes in Nigeria.
North America National Telecom Trends
Telxius opens Cancún landing gateway
The new facility is already connected to Telxius's backbone and is due to host the Tikal submarine cable in 2027.
Africa National Telecom Trends
Telecom Egypt signs 5Pbps Sharm–Taba cable deal
The planned 200km cable will extend Telecom Egypt's Red Sea network to Taba, adding another route for traffic crossing Egypt between the Red Sea and Mediterranean.
Asia-Pacific National Telecom Trends
Vocus pinpoints Australia-Singapore Cable break
Vocus has located the ASC break in Indonesian waters while internet traffic continues over alternative routes.
Asia-Pacific National Telecom Trends
GeoCables flags INDIGO-West latency during Indonesia fire
GeoCables reported higher latency on INDIGO-West during an Indonesian forest fire, but found no evidence of a confirmed subsea cable break.
Asia-Pacific Cloud Services Trends
Firmus's US$300m APX East Commitment Is Capacity Before Service
Firmus has attached a large number to a cable that does not yet carry traffic: approximately US$300 million for up to 150 Tbps over 25 years. The agreement may be an important underwriting signal for APX East and a rational way for an AI-infrastructure operator to reserve a…
Europe and Middle East National Telecom Trends
EXA, euNetworks file plans for Ireland-UK subsea cables
EXA and euNetworks have filed separate applications for new Irish Sea fibre cables, with both projects still at the regulatory stage.
Africa National Telecom Trends
Orange joins ReuNION subsea cable project
Orange will land the planned 320Tbps ReuNION cable in La Réunion, with service targeted for 2028 after SAFE’s planned 2027 retirement.
Story
A Splice Is Not a Recovery. Venezuela’s Atlas Study Needs the Events in Order
On 22 July, Cirion said the two ends of a Venezuelan submarine cable had been fused and end-to-end tests had passed, while pre-immersion work still lay ahead. On 23 July, the operator called the country completely reconnected. A later account uses 24 July for confirmation of full…
Asia-Pacific National Telecom Trends
Kemkomdigi agrees Palapa Ring reroute for Sitaro
Sitaro and Kemkomdigi agreed to reroute Palapa Ring Tengah through Tagulandang, with construction and commissioning still pending.
Asia-Pacific National Telecom Trends
Firmus signs 25-year APX East capacity deal
Firmus will spend about US$300m for up to 150Tbps over 25 years on SUBCO's planned Australia-US cable, due in 2028.
Global Cloud Services
AWS plans 420Tbps US-Japan subsea cable
AWS is developing Sta’O’Nuk, a 20-fibre-pair subsea cable between Washington state and Japan that it expects to bring into service in 2029.
Asia-Pacific National Telecom Trends
Viettel adds capacity as four subsea cable faults hit Vietnam
Viettel is adding subsea and terrestrial capacity after four cable faults disrupted about 30% of Vietnam's international Internet capacity.
Europe and Middle East Institutional
Nexans qualifies 525kV HVDC repair system for 3,000m
Nexans has qualified a 525kV HVDC cable and repair joint for 3,000-metre depths on the planned Crete-Cyprus interconnector.
Europe and Middle East Institutional
Subsea Cable Assets launches carousel rental service
The new service gives subsea contractors temporary access to 4,000- and 6,000-tonne cable carousels, with a first European contract already secured.
Global National Telecom Trends
A 24-Hour Sail Clause Is Not a Cable Restoration Date
A cable-maintenance agreement can put a ship on call without promising when customers will get service back. The useful contract separates mobilisation, passage, repair and traffic restoration—and assigns evidence and remedy to each clock.
North America National Telecom Trends
A Cable-Landing Permit Has More Than One Clock
A financing model may show one date for a United States submarine-cable landing permit. The real schedule has separate clocks for application completeness, national-security review, mitigation and final regulatory action—and some do not start when the application is filed.
Asia-Pacific National Telecom Trends
Niue's Manatua backup restored reachability, not primary capacity
The national telecom operator Telecom Niue switched international traffic to a lower-capacity backup after a known fault in the Manatua cable system developed further on 4 August. Connectivity returned, but permanent restoration moved onto a different clock controlled by cable…
Global Cloud Services Trends
Internet infrastructure needs a bottleneck map
More fibre does not guarantee resilience when cable landings, backhaul, power and interconnection still share one failure domain.
Global Regional ISP Trends
Cable resilience needs diverse landings, not just more cable names
A coastline can appear well connected on a cable map while several systems still share one landing site, terrestrial corridor or repair dependency. Resilience begins where those common paths separate.