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submarine communications cable A submarine communications cable is a cable laid on the sea bed between land-based stations to carry telecommunication signals across stretches of ocean and sea. The first submarine communications cables laid beginning in the 1850s carried tel ...
s and does not include international cable systems. All the cable systems listed below have landing points within one country, and are currently () in-service. Several older cables, although no longer used for telecommunications, are used for scientific purposes. Others are simply abandoned.


A

* AFOS (Azores Fiber Optic System) * Almeria-Melilla (Spain mainland interconnect to Melilla on the coast of Morocco) * APOCS (Atlantic Provinces Optical Cable System) * APOCS 1B (Atlantic Provinces Optical Cable System) * APOCS 1C (Atlantic Provinces Optical Cable System) * APOCS 2 (Atlantic Provinces Optical Cable System) * AUFS-EAST (Alaska United Fiber Optic Cable System) * AUFS-WEST (Alaska United Fiber Optic Cable System)


B

* Bass Strait 1 (connects Australia mainland to Tasmania) * Bass Strait 2 (connects Australia mainland to Tasmania) * Beijing - Qingdao (Lingao) - (China) * Brazil Domestic * Bugio (Lisbon-Sesimbra interconnect)


C

* CAM-RING (Lisbon - Madeira - Azores, Portugal) * CANDALTA (Candeleria - Alta Vista, Spain) * CANI (Chennai - Andaman and Nicobar Islands) * CC3 (Continent - Corsica 3) (Marseille - Ajaccio, France) * CC4 (Continent - Corsica 4) (Cannes - Ile Rousse, France) * CC5 (Continent - Corsica 5) (La Seyne - Ajaccio, France) * CEIBA-1 (Equatorial Guinea, connects Bata - Malabo) * Columbia Domestic Festoon * Como Lake Festoon (Italy) * Cook Strait Fibre Optic Cable (connects North and South Islands of New Zealand)


D

* DFON - (Domestic Fibre Optic Network) - Philippine Long Distance Telephone co. (Philippines) * DDSCN - (Domestic Fibre Optic Network) - Dhiraagu Plc. (Maldives)


E


F

* FiberWeb (Ocean Fiber) - connecting oil rigs off the coast of Louisiana


G

* Germany Domestic * Global West Network (California coastline from San Diego to San Francisco) * GOPTIC (connects Sweden mainland with Gotland) * Greece Domestic * Guangdong-Hainan (China) * Guangzhou-Haikou (China) * Guangzhou-Shantou (China) * Gulf of Mexico Festoon (Mexico)


H

* Hong Kong Domestic * HICS (
Hawaii Inter-Island Cable System HICS or Hawaii Inter-Island Cable System is a fiber optic submarine telecommunications cable system linking together six of the eight main Hawaiian Islands with each other. It has landing points in: * Lihue Terminal, Wailua Point, Kauai, Hawa ...
) * HYERES Festoon 1 (Giens - Porquerolles) - France * HYERES Festoon 2 (Porquerolles - Port Cros) - France * HYERES Festoon 3 (Heliopolis - Port Cros) - France * HYERES Festoon 4 (Heliopolis - Le Lavandou) - France


I

* Iberian Festoon (Spain) * IC-1 (Israeli Coasting 1) - (Israel) * INDIGO-Central (Australia) - Perth to Sydney * Italian Festoon ** (Ancona - Trieste) ** (Bari - Ancona) ** (Catania - Locri) ** (Catania - Bari) ** (Cefalu - Palermo) ** (Cetara - Vietri) ** (Civitavecchia - Giglio) ** (Civitavecchia - Pomezia) ** (Elba - Piombino) ** (Formia - Naples) ** (Genoa - Pisa) ** (Giglio - Maddalena) ** (Grosseto - Citavecchia) ** (Ischia - Procida) ** (Lamezia - Messina 1) ** (Lamezia - Messina 2) ** (Locri - Catanzaro) ** (Maddalena - Sassari) ** (Maiori - Cetara) ** (Massalubrense - Capri) ** (Mazara - Pantelleria) ** (Messina - Cefalu) ** (Miliscola - Procida) ** (Naples - Salerno) ** (Palermo - Rome) ** (Pisa - Grosseto) ** (Pomezia - Formia) ** (Positano - Praiano) ** (Praiano - Vettica) ** (Reggio Calabria - Catania) ** (Reggio Calabria - Gazzi 1) ** (Reggio Calabria - Gazzi 2) ** (Reggio Calabria - Gazzi 3) ** (Salerno - Scalea) ** (Scalea - Lamezia) ** (Venice - Ravenna) ** (Vettica - Maiori) ** GENSAR 2 - (Savona – Sassari) **
JANNA Janna (Kannada : ಮಹಾಕವಿ ಜನ್ನ) was one of the well-known Kannada poets of the early 13th century who also served in the capacity of a minister and a builder of temples. He graced the court of Hoysala empire King Veera Ba ...
- (Olbia - Civitavecchia) ** JANNA 2 - (Cagliari - Mazara del Vallo) ** ROMSAR - (Pomezia - Golfo Aranci) ** ROMSAR 2 - (Rome - Sardinia) ** SARGEN - (Golfo Aranci-Genoa) ** SARSIC - (Golfo Aranci-Palermo) ** SARSIC 2 - (Cagliari-Palermo)


J

* Jakarta-Surabaya (SKKL-JS) (connects the two ends of the island) * Japan Domestic * JASUKA (Indonesia) * JIH (Japan Information Highway) * JRD-3 (Japan Reconfiguration and Digitization) - connects the Kanto Plain in southern Japan with Okinawa * JAKA2LADEMA (Indonesia), connects Java, Kalimantan, Sulawesi, Bali, and Lombok islands.


K

* Korea Domestic * KSL (Korean Southern Loop) link between Osan US Airbase and Kunsan US Airbase * KINYRAS (Cyprus) * Kuantan-Kota Kinabalu (Malaysia) link between Peninsular Malaysia and the Northwest coast of Borneo


L

* Lake Michigan Cable - connects Kewaunee, WI to Arcadia, MI (United States) * Levin-Nelson (Cook Strait) Cable - connects North and South Islands of New Zealand * LFON (Libyan Fibre Optic Network)


M

* Malaysian Domestic Submarine Cable System-North Link * Malaysian Domestic Submarine Cable System-South Link * Malaysian Festoon * Maldives Domestic * Mallorca-Menorca (Balearic Islands) * MTC (Guam—Rota, Marianas—Tinian, Marianas—Saipan, Marianas) * MKCS (Mataram Kupang Cable System, Indonesia), connects major cities in Nusa Tenggara, islands spread to the east of Bali.


N

* NDTN - (National Digital Transmission Network) - (Philippines) * NEPTUNE (North-East Pacific Time-Series Undersea Networked Experiments) - off the coast of Canada * Nigeria Domestic * Norway Domestic * Novorossiysk-Sochi (Russian Black Sea Interconnect)


O

* OLERON (France mainland and Oleron Island connection)


P

* Palau Inter-Island System * Palapa Ring (Indonesia) * Pangkalpinang-Pontianak (Indonesia) * PENBAL-1 (Barcelona - Palma) - (Spain) * PENBAL-3 (Cabrera de Mar - Molina) - (Spain) * PENBAL-4 (Valencia - Ibiza) - (Spain) * PENBAL-5 (Gava - Ses Covetes) - (Spain) * PENCAN-5 (Spain) (connects mainland Spain to Gran Canaria and Tenerife) *
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(New Caledonia archipelago)


Q


R


S

* San Andrés Island-Providencia Island (Colombia) * Sesimbra-Lagos (Portuguese Interconnect) * Sochi-Poti (Russian Black Sea Interconnect) * South Korea Domestic * Sumatra-Java-Melaka (Indonesia) *
Svalbard Undersea Cable System The Svalbard Undersea Cable System is a twin submarine communications cable which connects Svalbard to the mainland of Norway. The two optical fiber cable consist of two segments, from Harstad to Breivika in Andøy, and from Breivika to Hotellne ...
- Mainland Norway to Svalbard Islands


T

* Taean-Chingdao (South Korea) * TEFKROS (Cyprus) * Thailand Domestic * TM-1 (Taiwan) * TT-1 - connects
Trinidad Trinidad is the larger and more populous of the two major islands of Trinidad and Tobago. The island lies off the northeastern coast of Venezuela and sits on the continental shelf of South America. It is often referred to as the southernmos ...
to
Tobago Tobago () is an List of islands of Trinidad and Tobago, island and Regions and municipalities of Trinidad and Tobago, ward within the Trinidad and Tobago, Republic of Trinidad and Tobago. It is located northeast of the larger island of Trini ...
* TURMEOS-1 (Turkey Marmara Aegean Optic System) - connects Izmir to Istanbul


U


V

* Venezuela Domestic Festoon ** (Cabimas - Maracaibo) ** (Maracaibo - Punto Fijo) ** (Punto Fijo - Coro) ** (Coro - Chichiriviche) ** (Chichiriviche - Puerto Cabello) ** (Puerto Cabello - Camuri) ** (Camuri - Higuerote) ** (Higuerote - Puerto La Cruz) ** (Puerto La Cruz - Cumana) ** (Cumana - Porlamar) ** (Porlamar - Carupano)


W

*
WCI CABLE WCI may refer to: Companies * WCI Communities, a subsidiary of the home construction company Lennar Corporation * Western Climate Initiative, a non-profit corporation that administers emissions trading markets in North America * White Sewing Machin ...
(Alaska - Oregon) * Wellington Harbour Link (Wellington, New Zealand)


X


Y


Z

* ZanLink - (Tanzania)


References


External links


GCI's AUFS Alaska United Fiber-optic cable System

AT&T Alascom

WCI Cable - AFS Alaska Fiber Star - Northstar cable



Alcatel-Lucent Reference List

The International Cable Protection Committee
includes a register of submarine cables worldwide
Comprehensive list of cable landing sites globally

Global Communications Submarine Cable Map, 2007

Kingfisher Information Service
source of free maps of cable routes around the UK
France Telecom's Fishermen's/Submarine Cable Information

List of the suppliers of the world's undersea communications cables



Region Sardinia network infrastructures for public administrations and research centers
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