Topic
Submarine Cable Infrastructure
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Africa National Telecom
Libya's self-declared gateway operator does not appear in the measured record of the country's 2025 shutdown
The Libyan International Telecommunication Company presents itself as Libya's single international gateway. The independent measurement of 16 May 2025 names four Libyan access networks — none of them the gateway, and one of them under a name that matches no corporate identity the…

CASE FILE
Petal’s petabit is a design envelope, not yet a delivered route
Petal matters because its two-core fibre design could materially change the density of transatlantic systems. But the most useful reading of its 1 Pbps label begins by refusing to treat a future engineering ceiling as present network capacity.

Global Institutional Trends
Lightera’s Subsea Fiber Expansion Still Needs a Demand Bridge
Lightera plans to nearly triple submarine optical-fiber manufacturing capacity by 2029. The commercial test is whether early demand visibility becomes qualified programmes, contracted volume, plant utilisation and durable cash returns.

North America Cloud Services Trends
Fastnet’s Tiny Maryland Power Building Still Faces a Long Approval Chain
Amazon has reduced the proposed shore facility for its U.S.–Ireland Fastnet cable to a power-feed building of less than 700 square feet, with no water connection and limited power demand. The smaller design answers part of Worcester County’s concern about infrastructure…

Global National Telecom Trends
EXA unveils Meridian transatlantic cable
EXA's 6,552km Meridian system is due in Q4 2029 with 24 fibre pairs and more than 500Tbps of design capacity.

Asia-Pacific National Telecom Trends
USTDA backs Thailand-US subsea cable study
USTDA is funding feasibility work for National Telecom's proposed THUS cable, which would avoid the South China Sea and could connect five other Southeast Asian markets.

North America Institutional Trends
Toptana has room for four cable systems—and one named anchor
Toptana Technologies has broken ground on a Washington cable landing station designed to receive as many as four subsea systems. The design creates room for a business; it does not prove that four customers, four commissioned cables or four revenue streams exist. For now, only…

Asia-Pacific National Telecom Trends
US and India add undersea-cable security to TRUST
A September workshop put cable resilience and supplier security inside the TRUST framework, but no new route, budget or construction timetable has been announced.

Asia-Pacific National Telecom Trends
XLSMART marks Batam landing for CANDLE cable
CANDLE has reached Batam, but its value to local data centres will depend on how the landing connects into terrestrial networks and commercial services.

Asia-Pacific National Telecom Trends
VTS cable target shifts to 2030 as Gulf joins
Gulf Development has joined Singtel in the VTS cable project, which now targets 2030 for service after an earlier plan pointed to 2027.

Asia-Pacific National Telecom Trends
Gulf joins Singtel on VTS subsea cable
Gulf and Singtel will develop the VTS subsea link between Thailand and Singapore, with service targeted for 2030.

Africa National Telecom Trends
LuLu cable plans five Kenyan landings
LuLu is planned as a 500km coastal cable linking five locations between Mombasa and Lamu, with service targeted for 2028.

History
Hawaii Internet Exchange: What Public Routing Records Cannot Yet Prove
Hawaii Internet Exchange: What Public Routing Records Cannot Yet Prove intelligence summary explains the development, the public evidence available to readers, the organisations involved, the regional context, market exposure, and the infrastructure consequences that may follow.…

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.
