Topic
Submarine Cable Infrastructure
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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.

Europe and Middle East National Telecom Trends
Sparkle, University of Genoa launch submarine cable course
Sparkle, the University of Genoa and the SubOptic Foundation have launched a postgraduate programme dedicated to submarine cable infrastructure.

Global National Telecom Trends
Fénix promises a 14 Tbps Venezuela–Curaçao ring, but the cable is still an announced project
Liberty Networks and CANTV announced Fénix on 31 July as a 378-kilometre submarine cable system between Camuri in Venezuela and Willemstad in Curaçao, with a stated minimum ring capacity of 14 Tbps. The design would connect Venezuela to a broader Caribbean hub. The release is…

Global National Telecom Trends
China commissions cable ship as Global Marine orders hybrid vessel
China has commissioned Tianyi Linghangzhe, while Global Marine has ordered a hybrid cable-maintenance vessel for delivery in 2029.

Asia-Pacific National Telecom Trends
The Trans-Caspian cable has entered the seabed; it has not yet entered service
A specialised vessel has departed Baku and begun laying fibre toward Aktau, converting the Trans-Caspian project from stored equipment into a physical route across the Caspian Sea. Kazakhstan’s government says regulatory, organisational and customs obstacles were resolved, a…

Asia-Pacific National Telecom
SEA-H2X enters commercial service as SHV-HK lands
SEA-H2X is now commercial, while SHV-HK has reached Hong Kong, adding one live route and another planned link across intra-Asia networks.
Leaders
Andres Tolosa and Antel's Subsea Route Independence
Andres Tolosa's dated public record at Antel shows how an operator moved a submarine-cable project from a prospective capacity plan to an inaugurated route, while keeping the practical problem focused on route dependence, contracted international capacity, financing, and…

Asia-Pacific National Telecom
The 2006 Hengchun Earthquake Made Submarine-Cable Route Concentration an Accountability Test
How a sequential cable-failure corridor exposed the difference between nominal redundancy, usable alternate capacity and repairable network continuity.

Leaders
Funke Opeke: From MainOne's open-access cable financing to restoration capacity
Funke Opeke's public record shows how a telecommunications operator moved through three different infrastructure constraints: financing and permitting an open-access submarine cable, adapting when weak terrestrial reach constrained uptake after landing, and confronting…

NANOG
A NANOG thread says 300 IS-IS routers are the easy question
Three hundred is a count, not a design. A late-indexed NANOG reply completed an operator exchange in which the short answer was that a flat IS-IS Level 2 domain can carry that scale; the more consequential answer was that acceptable failure scope, repair time and…

North America National Telecom Trends
Claro’s $35 million Ponce landing adds a route without proving independence
Claro Puerto Rico has funded a $35 million extension of the AMX-1 submarine system to Ponce, creating the island’s first reported cable landing on the southern coast. The new geographic entry point can diversify access and support wholesale capacity, but it does not by itself…

Global National Telecom
West Africa's 2024 Multi-Cable Outage Made Regional Route Diversity an Accountability Test
Four separately named submarine cable systems encountered faults near a shared West African corridor in March 2024. The resulting disruption showed that regional resilience depends on physically independent routes, reachable and sufficiently provisioned alternatives, working…

Global National Telecom
Shetland's 2022 Cable Outage Showed Why Physical Redundancy Must Be Usable
Shetland appeared to have the basic shape of resilience: a subsea fibre path south through Orkney to mainland Scotland and another path north toward the Faroe Islands. In October 2022, the northern path developed trouble first. When the southern path was damaged days later, much…

Europe and Middle East Institutional
Prysmian deploys new subsea cable burial tool
Prysmian’s new plough can bury submarine power cables up to five metres below the seabed where route conditions require deeper protection.

Global Cloud Services
Google connects Nuvem cable to Portugal
Google’s connection of Nuvem at Sines completes a key landing milestone, but the cable’s full operating status and usable capacity remain undisclosed.

North America National Telecom Trends
Canada funds development of two PEI power cables
Canada has committed C$5.9 million to advance two planned submarine power cables between Prince Edward Island and New Brunswick.

Global National Telecom
Tonga's 2022 Cable Break Turned Redundancy and Repair Logistics Into a National Continuity Test
When Tonga's only international submarine fibre route failed after the Hunga eruption, an extraordinary natural hazard became a test of ordinary continuity controls: diverse paths, usable fallback capacity, compatible spares, repair-vessel access, restoration priorities and…

Asia-Pacific National Telecom
Telin and BW Digital land Nongsa Changi cable in Batam
Telin and BW Digital landed the 50km Nongsa Changi Cable in Batam, but the Batam–Singapore link still has no revised service date.

Asia-Pacific National Telecom Trends
Chunghwa will use submarine cables as an APN test bench, not a launch platform
Chunghwa Telecom, Fujitsu and 1Finity have agreed to a two-year programme to verify all-photonics networking on Chunghwa’s submarine-cable systems and study distributed data centres. The commitment creates a real test surface, but no equipment order, capacity figure, route…

Europe and Middle East National Telecom Trends
Nuvem has reached shore; its 384Tbps still has not reached the market
Google's Nuvem cable is now physically connected at Sines, completing a disclosed landing sequence between South Carolina, Bermuda, the Azores and mainland Portugal. That changes the system from a route on paper into an Atlantic asset with operating optionality. It does not show…
