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Submarine Cable Infrastructure
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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.

Asia-Pacific National Telecom Trends
Two Perth cable faults prompt call for AFP investigation
Two faults inside Perth’s protected cable corridor have raised questions about their cause and whether the incidents were connected.

Europe and Middle East Institutional
MDM announces Ireland-US subsea cable system
The proposed transatlantic system would add another fibre route between Ireland and the United States.

Global Cloud Services
Google plans three new Americas subsea cables
Alisios, Canoa and OlaLuz would make the Dominican Republic a common junction between planned Caribbean, Pacific and Atlantic routes.

Global Cloud Services Trends
Internet infrastructure works through owned layers
The internet feels like one service, but delivery crosses local access, transport, exchange, naming, compute, power and people with different owners.

Latin America and Caribbean National Telecom Trends
Google’s Americas Connect makes the Dominican Republic a network hinge
Google has announced three subsea systems and a new Firmina branch across the Americas. The map gives the Dominican Republic an unusually central role, but the resilience claim will remain prospective until separate routes are built, lit and tested under failure.

Asia-Pacific National Telecom Trends
Lightstorm has financed I-2SEA’s next step, not its arrival in 2029
Lightstorm has secured a Rs25 billion debt facility led by IndusInd Bank for the I-2SEA cable between India, Malaysia and Singapore. The financing advances a project announced in July, but without loan terms, drawdown evidence or marine progress it remains one gate in a long path…

Latin America and Caribbean National Telecom Trends
Malbec has reached shore in southern Brazil; customer traffic is still several gates away
Meta and V.tal have started installing a 280-kilometre Malbec submarine-cable branch for Porto Alegre, with a landing at Balneário Pinhal and a 2027 launch target. Shore arrival makes the route physically more real, but the advertised 20 Tbps per fibre pair remains a design…

Asia-Pacific National Telecom Trends
Candle’s customer can pay before IPS can book a dollar of IRU revenue
IPS, Inc. has approved an indefeasible-right-of-use contract worth USD98.2 million for part of its interest in the planned Candle submarine cable, alongside a 25-year operations-and-maintenance agreement. The unusual discipline is temporal: customer advances are expected during…

Latin America and Caribbean National Telecom Trends
Fénix has a Caribbean route on paper, not a live handoff in Curaçao
CANTV and Liberty Networks have launched the Fénix submarine-cable project: a disclosed 378 km link from Camurí, Venezuela, to Willemstad, Curaçao, designed for at least 14 Tbps in each direction. The announcement adds a credible route and terminal concept to Venezuela’s…

Asia-Pacific National Telecom Trends
ANU report calls for priority subsea cable repair access
An ANU report says Australia should secure priority repair access for subsea cables as security concerns grow around critical undersea infrastructure.

Asia-Pacific National Telecom Trends
Echo subsea cable lands in Singapore
Echo has landed in Singapore, extending a US-Southeast Asia route that bypasses the South China Sea but is not yet fully operational.

Asia-Pacific National Telecom Trends
The Trans-Caspian cable has crossed the sea; the unfinished shore now sets the clock
The 380-kilometre fibre link between Sumgayit and Aktau has completed its marine lay, moving the Trans-Caspian project beyond the cable-ship phase reported in July. Yet the operators themselves say coastal integration and terrestrial construction are still under way. The wet…

Asia-Pacific National Telecom
China Unicom lands Hong Kong-Cambodia cable
SHV-HK adds a direct Hong Kong-Cambodia subsea path, but its operational role will depend on when capacity is activated and used.

Africa National Telecom
Kenya bandwidth rises 16% ahead of Daraja launch
Kenya’s international bandwidth is growing faster than utilisation, while Daraja would give Safaricom a new Oman–Mombasa route for sourcing capacity.

Asia-Pacific National Telecom
Paul Abfalter appointed FLAG chief executive
Abfalter moves from strategy and revenue leadership into the top operating role, while outgoing chief executive Carl Grivner becomes chairman.

Asia-Pacific Datacenter
DXN wins AU$1.2m Solomon Islands landing-station contract
DXN will deliver a modular landing station by April 2027 for the planned ACS-1 cable, but the wider system is not yet operational.

Leaders
Mohamed Nasr and the Route-Diversity Decisions Behind Egypt's Subsea Crossing Hub
The useful question about Egypt's place in international connectivity is not whether cables touch its shores. It is what an operator can actually choose after they arrive. A landing can be a geographic fact without becoming a flexible transit option. A collection of systems can…

Asia-Pacific National Telecom Trends
Paul Abfalter to become FLAG CEO in October
FLAG’s strategy and revenue chief will succeed Carl Grivner, who will remain with the subsea network operator as chairman.
