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Submarine Cable Infrastructure
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Europe and Middle East National Telecom Trends
PISCES Cable JV Begins Delivery Phase; Route Resilience Still Needs Proof
PISCES has moved from project preparation and EU-supported phases into a dedicated delivery vehicle formed by Equitix, MDM and Orange. Its marine route survey is complete and engineering and permitting are underway, but the evidence still stops well short of a functioning…
History
The Cable Was Cut; Intelsat Kept TAT-8 Service Running for Two Weeks, 1989
In February 1989, a break in TAT-8’s French end took the new transatlantic fiber system out of service. Intelsat carried customer service for two weeks while the cable was repaired—a revealing early example of restoring a communications function through another medium.
Europe and Middle East National Telecom Trends
Qatar’s submarine-cable rules make the access offer the real bottleneck
Qatar’s new landing-station regime puts a practical document between infrastructure and competition: an approved, published offer specifying what an access seeker may request, what it costs and how a dispute proceeds. The rule establishes that interface; the public record does…
Latin America and Caribbean National Telecom Trends
Uruguay’s Fibre Trunk Cuts Exposed a Cross-Layer Dependency
Four terrestrial fibre-trunk cuts on 13 October did more than interrupt domestic transport routes in Uruguay. Their simultaneous effect also constrained access to international submarine-cable capacity reaching Maldonado, showing how a terrestrial failure can become an…
Latin America and Caribbean Institutional Trends
Five Caribbean islands joined the exchange; local routing is the test
The Eastern Caribbean Internet Exchange now reaches five named islands through a cable operator, a local network and an exchange platform. That is a meaningful extension of regional infrastructure. It does not yet tell readers how much traffic stays local, which island networks…
History
The Backup Used the Same Cable: Iceland’s CANTAT-3 Failure, 2002
In August 2002, an undersea-cable failure exposed a quiet weakness in Iceland’s international connectivity: RHnet’s reserve route through Síminn depended on the same CANTAT-3 system as its usual route. The incident log makes a useful distinction between a second route on a…
Story
LACNIC’s Caribbean satellite fallback depends on an unstated trigger
Its CaribNOG 32 guidance pairs full-table routing over fibre with a default route over LEO. The post reports exercises, but no operator deployment, failover test or capacity result.
North America Institutional Trends
The FCC drew SLTE into cable oversight. Key licensing rules still await a start date
The United States has marked submarine line terminal equipment as a point of regulatory control, not just a component beside the wet cable. But the rule’s headline date does not tell operators when every new duty begins: core provisions for SLTE licensing, security certifications…
Global National Telecom Trends
Prysmian’s Xtera deal joins system design to cable supply; delivery remains the test
Prysmian has closed its purchase of Xtera through a joint venture with Fincantieri. The deal brings optical system design closer to cable production and marine installation, but buyers still need to know which parts can be sourced separately—and what the new production capacity…
Europe and Middle East National Telecom
Space Norway’s shared optical standard is a resilience claim to test
Ciena will modernize Space Norway’s existing Svalbard cables and equip the new Arctic Way system with the same optical technology. That may simplify operations, but a shared equipment standard does not establish independent routes or tested continuity.
Africa Datacenter Trends
ANGONIX: Angola's internet exchange and the Atlantic cable layer
Angola's national internet exchange has operated since 16 March 2015 as a neutral platform run by Angola Cables and hosted at the AngoNAP Luanda data centre. Its operator's submarine cable layer is moving toward services of up to 800 Gb/s, while the exchange's own interconnection…
Europe and Middle East National Telecom Trends
Europe’s backbone map is being drawn before the next funding rules
The Commission wants a map of Europe’s terrestrial and submarine networks, then a view of where money may be missing. The study can clarify those choices; it cannot make a network, a grant or a market failure appear by itself.
Europe and Middle East National Telecom Trends
Pisces has a joint venture. Its access rules remain the real test
The 14 October announcement gives the Ireland–continental Europe cable a named delivery company and chief executive. It does not yet show who will receive capacity, on what terms, or when the route will carry traffic.
Story
APNIC’s US$3bn cable-repair forecast leaves the funding model open
An APNIC-hosted essay cites a 2040 estimate of US$3 billion to replace 15 submarine-cable repair vessels and add five more. The ITU’s evidence points to the financing question behind that total: who will commit the long-term revenue needed to build and maintain the ships?
History
One Cable Company, Many Local Gatekeepers: FLAG, 1997
FLAG’s Europe–Asia cable was financed and run as a cross-border wholesale system, yet the equipment at its national landings still depended on local telephone companies. Its history shows where private capital changed the cable business—and where it stopped.
Europe and Middle East National Telecom Trends
Prysmian’s Xtera acquisition puts a systems business behind EXA Meridian
The deal joins repeater engineering to cable manufacturing, but the transatlantic project remains EXA Infrastructure’s to lead and deliver. That distinction is where the integration thesis can be tested.
Global National Telecom Trends
EXA Meridian’s route and supply chain remain separate
EXA Infrastructure will lead and deliver the planned cable, Xtera is its key supplier for optical engineering and wet and dry plant, and Prysmian says it will manufacture the cable. The Xtera acquisition changes who owns the supplier; it does not make the three roles…
Europe and Middle East National Telecom Trends
Arctic Way Adds a Cable. Space Norway Still Has to Prove the Switch
The old Svalbard pair kept service through one cable break in 2022. Space Norway’s new Ciena award will standardize optical equipment across that legacy system and Arctic Way, but the public record still does not show how much traffic each route can carry, what fails together, or…
Africa Regional ISP Trends
Solar at Lagos’s ACE landing station needs an uptime ledger
Grid Crux will finance, install and operate a solar system at Dolphin Telecoms’ Lagos cable landing station under a reported ten-year Energy-as-a-Service agreement. The forecast of more than 144 MWh a year is a production estimate, not proof of how much power will reach critical…
Africa Regional ISP Trends
Solar at Lagos’s ACE landing station needs an uptime ledger
Grid Crux will finance, install and operate a solar system at Dolphin Telecoms’ Lagos cable landing station under a reported ten-year Energy-as-a-Service agreement. The forecast of more than 144 MWh a year is a production estimate, not proof of how much power will reach critical…