Subsea

Meta has announced Project Waterworth, its most extensive subsea cable initiative to date. Spanning over 50,000 km (31,000 miles), the system will connect five continents, including the U.S., India, Brazil,...

Ooredoo Group has partnered with Alcatel Submarine Networks (ASN) to develop the Fibre in Gulf (FIG) submarine cable, a major subsea infrastructure project that will connect Qatar, Oman, the UAE, Bahrain, Saudi...

Telstra International outlined its ambitious vision to transform its international network into a highly autonomous, AI-driven system to meet growing demands for bandwidth and enhanced resilience. The upgraded network will deliver over 800...

MOX Networks, a fiber-optic network operator owned by Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong , has acquired spectrum on Google’s Topaz subsea cable system, the first fiber cable connecting Canada to Asia. The...

Southern Cross Cable Limited achieved a major milestone by deploying the world’s first transpacific 1 Tb/s single-carrier wavelength transmission leveraging Ciena’s WaveLogic 6 Extreme (WL6e) coherent optics. The record-breaking achievement...

Nokia finalized the sale of its submarine cable subsidiary, Alcatel Submarine Networks (ASN), to the French State on December 31, 2024, with the transaction publicly announced on January 3, 2025....

NEC Corporation completed installation of the Asia Direct Cable (ADC), a new 10,000-kilometer (6,214-mile) submarine cable connecting six countries in East and Southeast Asia. The cable links China (Hong Kong...

VIAVI Solutions confirmed its critical role in validating the world’s first 800GbE transatlantic service trial, originally announced in October by Windstream Wholesale and Nokia. Spanning 8,500 kilometers (5,280 miles) between...

Members of the CELIA consortium have announced the development of CELIA, a high-capacity submarine cable system set to connect key locations in the Caribbean and the United States. The cable...

Google has announced the Australia Connect initiative, a comprehensive investment in digital infrastructure designed to enhance connectivity across Australia and the Indo-Pacific region. Central to this initiative are two major subsea...

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) initiated a review of its submarine cable licensing rules for the first time since 2001, reflecting advancements in technology and evolving national security concerns. Submarine...

A fault has been detected in the Cinia C-Lion1 submarine cable, which connects Finland and Germany, disrupting services early on Monday, November 18, 2024. The exact cause of the issue...

Nokia and Islalink successfully achieved 800Gbps transmission over a 330km (205-mile) unrepeated submarine cable, connecting Crotone, Italy, with Preveza, Greece. The milestone, reached through Nokia’s sixth-generation Photonic Service Engine (PSE-6s),...