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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. It does not include domestic cable systems, such as those on the coastlines of
Japan Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the n ...
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Italy Italy ( it, Italia ), officially the Italian Republic, ) or the Republic of Italy, is a country in Southern Europe. It is located in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea, and its territory largely coincides with the homonymous geographical ...
, and
Brazil Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area ...
. All the cable systems listed below have landing points in two or more countries. Several older cables, although no longer used for international telecommunications, are used for scientific purposes. Others are simply abandoned.


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AAE-1 Asia-Africa-Europe 1 (AAE-1) is a 25,000 km submarine communications cable system from South East Asia to Europe across Egypt, connecting Hong Kong, Vietnam, Cambodia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Myanmar, India, Pakistan, Oman, UAE, Qata ...
— Asia Africa Europe Gateway; France, Italy, Greece, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Djibouti, Yemen, Qatar, UAE, Oman, Pakistan, India, Myanmar, Cambodia, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam, Hong Kong (in planning stage) * AAG — Asia America Gateway; Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Brunei, Vietnam, Hong Kong, the Philippines, Guam, Hawaii, Continental USA West Coast * AC-1 — Atlantic Crossing; USA, UK, Germany, the Netherlands * AC-2 — Atlantic Crossing, a.k.a. Yellow; USA-UK * ACC-1 - Asia Connect Cable System; Singapore, Indonesia, Australia, East Timor, Guam, USA * ACE — Africa Coast to Europe; France, Spain, Portugal, Morocco, Canary Islands (Spain), Western Sahara, Mauritania, Senegal, Gambia, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon, São Tomé and Príncipe, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Congo, Angola, Namibia, South Africa * Aden-Djibouti — Yemen-Djibouti * ADRIA-1 — Croatia, Albania, Greece * AEConnect — Shirley, USA to Killala, Ireland * AIS — Australia-Indonesia-Singapore (decommissioned) * AJC — Australia-Japan Cable *
Alaska Communications System The Alaska Communications System (ACS), also known as the Washington-Alaska Military Cable and Telegraph System (WAMCATS), was a system of cables and telegraph lines authorized by the U.S. Congress in 1900 and constructed by the U.S. Army Signal ...
* ALETAR — Alexandria-Tarsous; Egypt-Syria *
Alonso de Ojeda Alonso de Ojeda (; c. 1466 – c. 1515) was a Spanish explorer, governor and conquistador. He travelled through modern-day Guyana, Venezuela, Trinidad, Tobago, Curaçao, Aruba and Colombia. He navigated with Amerigo Vespucci who is famou ...
— Aruba-Curaçao * ALPAL-2 — Algiers-Palma de Mallorca; Algeria-Spain * AMERICAS-1 NORTH — USA-US Virgin Islands * AMERICAS-1 SOUTH — US Virgin Islands, Trinidad, Venezuela, Brazil *
AMERICAS-II AMERICAS-II is a fiber optic submarine communications cable that carries telecommunications between Florida, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, Martinique, Curaçao, Trinidad and Tobago, Venezuela, French Guiana, Suriname and Guyana (both throug ...
— USA, Puerto Rico, US Virgin Islands, Martinique, Curaçao, Trinidad, Venezuela, French Guiana, Brazil * Amitié - Bude, UK-Le Porge, France, Lynn, USA (due to go live 2022) *
AMX-1 The America Movil Submarine Cable System-1 (AMX-1) is a fiber optic submarine communications cable of 17,800 kilometers that extends between the United States, Mexico, Guatemala, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico and Brazil. Informati ...
— United States, Mexico, Guatemala, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Brazil * ANNIBAL — France-Tunisia (decommissioned) *
ANTILLAS I ANTILLAS I is a fiber optic submarine communications cable that extends between the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico. It has been in service since June 1997 and is operated on a common carrier basis. ANTILLAS I uses digital channels operating at ...
— Dominican Republic-Puerto Rico * Antilles Crossing Phase 1 — US Virgin Islands, St Lucia, Barbados *
ANZAC Cable System The Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) was a First World War army corps of the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force. It was formed in Egypt in December 1914, and operated during the Gallipoli campaign. General William Birdwood comman ...
- Australia (Melbourne and Tasmania including Flinders Island), New Zealand * ANZCAN — Australia, New Zealand, Canada (decommissioned) * APC — Asia-Pacific Cable; Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore * APCN — Asia-Pacific Cable Network; Japan, Korea, Philippines, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia, Australia *
APCN 2 APCN 2 or Asia-Pacific Cable Network 2 is a submarine telecommunications cable linking several countries in the Asia-Pacific region. It has landing points in: * Chongming, Shanghai, China *Shantou, Guangdong Province, China *Lantau Island, Isl ...
— Asia-Pacific Cable Network 2; Japan, Korea, Philippines, Taiwan, China, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore * APHRODITE-1 — Greece-Cyprus (decommissioned) * APHRODITE-2 — Greece-Cyprus * APNG-1 — Australia-Papua New Guinea (decommissioned) *
APNG-2 The APNG-2 submarine communications cable was constructed to link Papua New Guinea directly to Australia and indirectly to New Zealand and the rest of the world, and has been in service from late 2006. The new cable is a collaboration betwee ...
— Australia-Papua New Guinea * APG — Asia-Pacific Gateway *
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— USA, UK, France *
ARCOS-1 The Americas Region Caribbean Ring System (ARCOS-1) is a fiber optic submarine communications cable of 8,400 kilometers that extends between the United States, the Bahamas, the Turks and Caicos Islands, the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Cura ...
— Americas Region Caribbean Optical-ring System; USA, Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, Netherlands Antilles, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, Turks and Caicos Islands, Bahamas * :it:Arctic Fibre (''
italian Italian(s) may refer to: * Anything of, from, or related to the people of Italy over the centuries ** Italians, an ethnic group or simply a citizen of the Italian Republic or Italian Kingdom ** Italian language, a Romance language *** Regional Ita ...
'') — UK, Canada, USA, Japan (planned) * Arctic Link — UK, Canada, USA, Japan (planned) * ARIANE-2 — France-Greece * ASE (Asia Submarine Cable Express) — Singapore, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore (2012) *
ASEAN ASEAN ( , ), officially the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, is a political and economic union of 10 member states in Southeast Asia, which promotes intergovernmental cooperation and facilitates economic, political, security, milita ...
— Singapore, Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand (decommissioned) *
ASH Ash or ashes are the solid remnants of fires. Specifically, ''ash'' refers to all non-aqueous, non-gaseous residues that remain after something burns. In analytical chemistry, to analyse the mineral and metal content of chemical samples, ash ...
— American Samoa, Samoa, Hawaii * Atlantica-1/GlobeNet — USA, Bermuda, Venezuela, Brazil *
ATLANTIS Atlantis ( grc, Ἀτλαντὶς νῆσος, , island of Atlas) is a fictional island mentioned in an allegory on the hubris of nations in Plato's works '' Timaeus'' and '' Critias'', wherein it represents the antagonist naval power that b ...
— Brazil, Senegal, Portugal (decommissioned) * ATLANTIS-2 — Argentina, Brazil, Senegal, Cape Verde Islands, Canary Islands, Madeira, Spain, Portugal *
ATLAS An atlas is a collection of maps; it is typically a bundle of maps of Earth or of a region of Earth. Atlases have traditionally been bound into book form, but today many atlases are in multimedia formats. In addition to presenting geogra ...
— Portugal, Morocco (decommissioned) * Atlas Offshore — Morocco-France *
Australia Singapore Cable The Australia Singapore Cable (ASC) is a 4,600 km fibre-optic submarine communications cable that entered service in September 2018, linking Australia and Singapore via Christmas Island and Indonesia. ASC is owned and operated by Vocus ...
— Australia - Singapore * Australia West Express (planned) — Perth - Diego Garcia - Djibouti


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* BAHAMAS 2 - (USA-Bahamas) *
BALTICA Baltica is a paleocontinent that formed in the Paleoproterozoic and now constitutes northwestern Eurasia, or Europe north of the Trans-European Suture Zone and west of the Ural Mountains. The thick core of Baltica, the East European Craton, ...
- (Poland, Denmark, Sweden) * Banjoewangi - Broome (Australia, Indonesia) (decommissioned) * Barcelona - Pisa (Spain, Italy) (decommissioned) * Barcelona - Rome (Spain, Italy) (decommissioned) * BARGEN - (''Cabrera de Mar, Barcelona-Genova'') (Spain-Italy) (decommissioned) * BARSAV - (''Barcelona-Savona'') (Spain-Italy) (decommissioned 2018) * BCS - (Sweden, Lithuania, Latvia, Finland) * BDSNi - (''Bahamas Domestic Submarine Network international'') * BERYTAR - (''Beirut-Tartous'') (Syria-Lebanon) * Bharat Lanka Cable System - (BLCS) (India-Sri Lanka) * BICS - (''Bahamas Internet Cable System'') * BMP - (''Brunei, Malaysia, Philippines'') (decommissioned) *
Botnia The Gulf of Bothnia (; fi, Pohjanlahti; sv, Bottniska viken) is divided into the Bothnian Bay and Bothnian Sea, and it is the northernmost arm of the Baltic Sea, between Finland's west coast ( East Bothnia) and the Sweden's east coast ( Wes ...
- (Sweden-Finland) * BRCS - (''Batam Rengit Cable System'') (Indonesia - Malaysia) * BS - (''Brunei-Singapore'') (decommissioned) * BSCS - (''Batam-Singapore Cable System'') (Indonesia - Singapore) * BSFOCS - (''Black Sea Fibre Optic Cable System'') (Bulgaria, Ukraine, Russia) * BT-MT1 - (''British Telecom - Manx Telecom'') (UK-Isle of Man) * BT-TE1 - (''British Telecom - Telecom Éireann'') (UK-Ireland) * BUS-1 - (''Bermuda-US'' - now a segment of GlobeNet) * BDM - (''Batam Dumai Malaka Cable System'') (Indonesia - Malaysia) * BBG - (''BBG Bay of Bengal Gateway Cable System'') (Barka - Fujairah - India - Sri Lanka - Malaysia - Singapore)


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* C-J FOSC - (''China-Japan Fibre Optic Submarine Cable'') * CADMOS - (Cyprus-Lebanon) * Canal Zone - Jamaica (Panama, Jamaica) (decommissioned) *
CANTAT-1 CANTAT-1 was the first Canadian transatlantic telephone cable, between Hampden, Newfoundland and eventually Grosses-Roches, Quebec and Oban, United Kingdom, which followed on from the success of TAT-1. It was conceived and approved as stage one o ...
- (''Canada Transatlantic'') - (Canada-UK) (decommissioned) *
CANTAT-2 CANTAT-2 was the second Canadian transatlantic telephone cable, in operation from 1974 to 1992. It could carry 1,840 simultaneous telephone calls between Beaver Harbour, Nova Scotia and England. The parties involved were Canadian Overseas Telecom ...
- (''Canada Transatlantic'') - (Canada-UK) (decommissioned) *
CANTAT-3 CANTAT-3 was the third Canadian transatlantic telecommunications cable, in regular operation from 1994 to 2010, carrying 3 x 2.5 Gbit/s between Canada and Europe. It branches to both Iceland and the Faroe Islands. It is out of normal service fo ...
- (''Canada Transatlantic'') - (Canada, Iceland, the Faeroes, UK, Denmark, Germany) (decommissioned) * CANUS-1 - (Canada-USA) * CARAC - (''Caribbean Atlantic Cable'') (Bermuda-Tortola) * C-Lion1 - (Finland - Germany) * Cayman-Jamaica * CELTIX CONNECT - (UK-Ireland) (planned 2010) * CFX - (USA-Colombia) *
Challenger Challenger, Challengers, or The Challengers may refer to: Entertainment Comics and manga * Challenger (character), comic book character * ''Challengers'' (manga), manga by Hinako Takanaga Film and TV * ''The Challengers'' (TV series), a 197 ...
- (USA-Bermuda) * CIOS - (''Cyprus-Israel Optical System'') (Cyprus-Israel) * CIRCE NORTH - (UK-the Netherlands) * CIRCE SOUTH - (UK-France) * CKC - (''China-Korea Cable'') (PRC-South Korea) (decommissioned) * CNSFTC - (''Central North Sea Fibre Telecommunications Company'') - (UK-North Sea oil platforms) * Colombia-Jamaica-Florida * COLUMBUS II - (USA-Mexico-Italy) * COLUMBUS III - (USA-Azores-Portugal-Italy) * Commonwealth Pacific Cable (COMPAC) (Canada, USA, Fiji, New Zealand, Australia) (decommissioned - portions in scientific use) * Concerto 1 - (Triangular UK-Belgium-the Netherlands) * CS2 - (Sydney-Solomon Islands), (Sydney-Papua New Guinea) * Corfù–Bar - (Greece-Montenegro) * CORSAR - (''Corsica-Sardinia'') (France-Italy) * Cuba-Venezuela - Cuba-Venezuela (ALBA-1) *
CUCN CUCN or China-US Cable Network was a submarine communications cable, submarine telecommunications cable linking several countries in the Asia-Pacific region. It was retired from service in December 201 It has cable landing point, landing points in ...
- (''China-US Cable Network'') (Korea-US-China-Japan-Guam)


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* Danica North (Denmark-Sweden) * Danica South (Denmark-Sweden) * DANICE - (Denmark-Iceland) * Darwin - Banjoewangi (Australia, Indonesia) (decommissioned) * Denmark-Norway 5 * Denmark-Norway 6 * Denmark-Poland 2 * Denmark-Russia 1 * Denmark-Sweden 15 * Denmark-Sweden 16 * Denmark-Sweden 17 * Denmark-Sweden 18 * DMCS - (''Dumai-Melaka Cable System'') (Indonesia-Malaysia) * Dunant - US-France - went live 2020 *
DSCS The Defense Satellite Communications System (DSCS) is a United States Space Force satellite constellation that provides the United States with military communications to support globally distributed military users. Beginning in 2007, DSCS is be ...
- (''Dhiraagu & Sri Lanka Telecom Cable System'') (Maldives-Sri Lanka)


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EAC-C2C EAC-C2C is a submarine telecommunications cable system interconnecting several countries in Asia, the Pacific, and the United States. It is a merger of the former EAC (East Asia Crossing) and C2C cable systems. The merger occurred in 2007 by Asia ...
- (''East Asia Crossing/C2C'') (Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, China, Hong Kong, Singapore, Philippines, Vietnam, Guam, USA) *
Eagle Eagle is the common name for many large birds of prey of the family Accipitridae. Eagles belong to several groups of genera, some of which are closely related. Most of the 68 species of eagle are from Eurasia and Africa. Outside this area, j ...
- (Japan-USA) - planned *
EASSy The Eastern Africa Submarine Cable System (EASSy) is an undersea fibre optic cable system connecting countries in Eastern Africa to the rest of the world. EASSy runs from Mtunzini in South Africa to Port Sudan in Sudan, with landing points in ...
- (an East Africa Submarine Cable System with endpoints in South Africa and the Sudan) * EC-1 - (''Eastern Link Cable System'') (Trinidad, Netherlands Antilles) * ECFS - (''Eastern Caribbean Fibre System'') (Trinidad, Grenada, St Vincent, Barbados, St Lucia, Martinique, Dominica, Guadeloupe, Montserrat, Antigua, St Kitts, St Maarten, Anguilla, Tortola) * ECSC - (Japan, China) (decommissioned - portions in scientific use) * EDF1 (INGRID) - (Jersey, France) * EDF2 (INGRID) - (Guernsey, Jersey, France) * EE-S1 - (''Estonia-Sweden 1'') (Estonia-Sweden) * EESF-2 - (Estonia-Finland) * EESF-3 - (Estonia-Finland) * EIG - (''Europe India Gateway'') (UK, Portugal, Gibraltar, France, Monaco, Libya, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Djibouti, Oman, UAE, India) * EMOS 1 - (''Eastern Mediterranean Optical System'') (Greece, Israel, Turkey, Italy) * ESAT 1 - (Wexford to Cornwall) * ESAT 2 - (Dublin to Ainsdale) * Estepona–Tetuán - (Morocco, Spain) * EURAFRICA - (Portugal, Morocco, France)


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* FALCON - see FLAG FALCON below. *
FARICE-1 FARICE-1 is a submarine communications cable connecting Iceland, the Faroe Islands and Scotland. The cable has been in use since January 2004 and is 100% owned by the Icelandic state. The cable had an initial design capacity of 720 Gbit/s an ...
- (UK-Faroes-Iceland) * FARLAND - (UK-the Netherlands) * FASTER - (USA-Japan-Taiwan) * FEC - (Finland Estonia Connection) *
Fehmarn Belt Fehmarn Belt (), (, former spelling ''Femer Bælt''; ) is a strait connecting the Bay of Kiel and the Bay of Mecklenburg in the western part of the Baltic Sea between the German island of Fehmarn and the Danish island of Lolland. Ferries oper ...
- (Denmark-Germany) * Fibralink - (Jamaica-Dominican Republic) * FLAG FA-1 - (''FLAG Atlantic'') (USA, UK, France) * FLAG FALCON - (''FLAG Alcatel-Lucent Optical Network'') - (Bahrain, Egypt, India, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Kenya, Kuwait, Maldives, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sri Lanka, Sudan, UAE, Yemen) * FLAG FEA - (''FLAG Europe-Asia'') (UK, Spain, Italy, Jordan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, India, Malaysia, Thailand, Hong Kong, China, South Korea, Japan) * FLAG FNAL - (''FLAG North Asian Loop'') (Hong Kong, Taiwan, South Korea, Japan) * Florida-Jamaica - (USA, Jamaica) (decommissioned) * FLAG FP-1 - (''FLAG Pacific'') (Japan, Canada, USA) *
FOG Fog is a visible aerosol consisting of tiny water droplets or ice crystals suspended in the air at or near the Earth's surface. Reprint from Fog can be considered a type of low-lying cloud usually resembling stratus, and is heavily influ ...
- (''Fiber Optic Gulf'') (UAE-Qatar-Bahrain-Kuwait) * FOG2 - (''Fiber Optic Gulf 2'') (UAE-Iraq-Saudi Arabia) * France-Algeria (decommissioned) * France-Greece (decommissioned) * France-Morocco (decommissioned) * France-Tunisia (decommissioned)


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* G-P - (Guam-Philippines) * GCN - (''Global Caribbean Network'') (Guadeloupe, St. Martin, Ste. Croix, Puerto Rico) * Gemini - (USA, UK, Bermuda) * Georgia-Russia * Germany-Denmark 1 (decommissioned) * Germany-Denmark 2 * Germany-Sweden 4 (decommissioned) * Germany-Sweden 5 (decommissioned) *
GLO-1 The GLO-1 (Globacom, Globacom-1) submarine communications cable is a cable system along the west coast of Africa between Nigeria and the UK, owned by Nigerian telecoms operator Globacom. The submarine cable system is 9,800 km long, and became ...
- (''Globacom-1'') (Nigeria, Ghana, Senegal, Mauritania, Morocco, Portugal, Spain, UK) (planned) *
GO-1 GO-1 is a submarine communications cable system that links Sicily to Malta, operated by the Maltese telecommunications company GO. It currently consists of a single cable, laid in 1995, linking St George's Bay in Malta to Catania in Sicily. T ...
- (Italy-Malta) *
Gondwana-1 Gondwana-1 is a submarine communications cable network connecting New Caledonia and Australia brought into service in mid-2008. The cable landing points are: * Narrabeen beach, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia * Poindimié commune, North Pro ...
- (New Caledonia, Australia) * Gotland-Ventspils - (Sweden-Latvia) * GPT - (Guam-Philippines-Taiwan) (decommissioned) *
Grace Hopper Grace Brewster Hopper (; December 9, 1906 – January 1, 1992) was an American computer scientist, mathematician, and United States Navy rear admiral. One of the first programmers of the Harvard Mark I computer, she was a pioneer of compu ...
- (Transatlantic - Bude, New York, Bilbao) - (live 2021) * Greenland Connect - (Canada-Greenland-Iceland) * Gulf Bridge International - (Linking the GCC countries (Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar and the UAE) to each other and onwards to Europe, Africa and Asia) - (planned for 2012) *
GWEN Gwen may refer to: * Gwen (given name), including a list of people with the name * ''Gwen, or the Book of Sand'', a 1985 animated film * Gwen (film), a 2018 horror film * Tropical Storm Gwen, several storms with the name Acronyms * AN/URC-117 Grou ...
- (''Greece to Western Europe Network'') (Italy - Greece)


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HANNIBAL Hannibal (; xpu, 𐤇𐤍𐤁𐤏𐤋, ''Ḥannibaʿl''; 247 – between 183 and 181 BC) was a Carthaginian general and statesman who commanded the forces of Carthage in their battle against the Roman Republic during the Second Pu ...
- (Tunisia-Italy) * HANTRU-1 - (Guam - Pohnpei (FSM) - Majuro (Marshall Islands) - Kwajalein) * Havfrue - (New Jersey, US - Blaabjerg, Denmark - branches to Ireland and Norway). Sold under the brand name America Europe Connect-2 = AEC-2. (Live in Q4 2020) *
Hawaiki In Polynesian mythology, (also rendered as in Cook Islands Māori, in Samoan, in Tahitian, in Hawaiian) is the original home of the Polynesians, before dispersal across Polynesia. It also features as the underworld in many Māori stories. ...
- (New Zealand, Australia, American Samoa, Hawaii, Pacific City) - under construction *
Hawk Hawks are birds of prey of the family Accipitridae. They are widely distributed and are found on all continents except Antarctica. * The subfamily Accipitrinae includes goshawks, sparrowhawks, sharp-shinned hawks and others. This subfa ...
- (France-Tunisia-Libya-Italy-Turkey-Cyprus-Syria-Egypt) - planned * HERMES-1 - (UK-Belgium) * HERMES-2 - (UK-Netherlands) *
Hibernia Atlantic Hibernia Networks, alternately known as Hibernia Atlantic, was a privately held, US-owned provider of telecommunication services. It operated global network routes on self-healing rings in North America, Europe and Asia including submarine commu ...
- (UK, Ireland, Canada, USA) * HJK - (Hong Kong-Japan-Korea) (decommissioned) * Honotua - (Tahiti-Hawaii) * HONTAI-2 - (Hong Kong-Taiwan) (decommissioned) * HSCS - (''Hokkaido-Sakhalin Cable System'') (Russia - Japan) * HUGO - (''High capacity, Undersea Guernsey Optical-fibre'') (UK, Guernsey, France) * HUGO East - (''High capacity, Undersea Guernsey Optical-fibre'') (France, Jersey, Guernsey)


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I-ME-WE I-ME-WE (India-Middle East-Western Europe) is a submarine communications cable system between India and France. The design capacity is 3.84 Terabits per second. It has been operational since 2009 with Tripoli, Lebanon being connected in Novemb ...
- (''India-Middle East-Western Europe'') (India, Pakistan, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, the Lebanon, Italy, France) * i2i - (India-Singapore) * India-UAE * INDIGO-West (Australia-Indonesia-Singapore) * IOCOM - (India-Malaysia) (decommissioned) * Ir-UK Seg A - (Ireland-UK) * Ir-UK Seg B - (Ireland-UK) * Italy-Albania * Italy-Croatia * Italy-Greece * Italy-Libya * Italy-Malta * Italy-Monaco * Italy-Tunisia * ITUR - (Italy-Turkey-Ukraine-Russia)


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* Japan-US * JAKABARE - (''Java - Kalimantan - Batam - Singapore'') (Indonesia-Singapore) *
JASURAUS JASURAUS was a 5.332 Gbit/s, 2,800 km optical submarine telecommunications cable that connected Port Hedland, Australia, to Jakarta, Indonesia, with a further interconnection to the APCN and which was decommissioned in 2012. The cable ...
- (''Jakarta - Surabaya - Australia'') (Indonesia-Australia) (Decommissioned) * Jersey-Guernsey 4 * JKC - (Japan-Korea) (decommissioned - portions in scientific use) * JNAC - (USA, Japan, China, South Korea, Taiwan) (planned, but not built) *
JONAH Jonah or Jonas, ''Yōnā'', "dove"; gr, Ἰωνᾶς ''Iōnâs''; ar, يونس ' or '; Latin: ''Ionas'' Ben (Hebrew), son of Amittai, is a prophet in the Hebrew Bible and the Quran, from Gath-hepher of the northern Kingdom of Israel (Samaria ...
(Bezeq International Optical System) – (Israel, Cyprus, Italy)


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* KAFOS - (''Karadeniz Fiber Optik Sistemi'') (Turkey, Bulgaria, Romania) * KATTEGAT-1 - (Denmark-Sweden) * KATTEGAT-2 - (Denmark-Sweden) * KELTRA-2 - (''Kelibia-Trapani'') (Tunisia-Italy) * Key West-Havana 5 (USA, Cuba) (decommissioned - portions in scientific use) * Key West-Havana 6 (USA, Cuba) (decommissioned - portions in scientific use) * KDN-Reliance - (Yemen - Kenya) (planned for 2007) * KJCN - (''Korea-Japan Cable Network'') * Kuwait-Iran


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* La Perouse-Nelson - (Australia, New Zealand) (decommissioned) * La Perouse-Wakapauka - (Australia, New Zealand) (decommissioned) * LANIS-1 - (Isle of Man-UK) * LANIS-2 - (Northern Ireland (UK) -Isle of Man) * LANIS-3 - (Northern Ireland-Scotland) * LEV - (Italy, Cyprus, Israel) *
Liberty Liberty is the ability to do as one pleases, or a right or immunity enjoyed by prescription or by grant (i.e. privilege). It is a synonym for the word freedom. In modern politics, liberty is understood as the state of being free within society fr ...
- (UK, Guernsey, Jersey, France) *
LION The lion (''Panthera leo'') is a large cat of the genus '' Panthera'' native to Africa and India. It has a muscular, broad-chested body; short, rounded head; round ears; and a hairy tuft at the end of its tail. It is sexually dimorphic; adu ...
- (''Lower Indian Ocean Network'') (Madagascar, Reunion, Mauritius) * LV-SE 1 - (Latvia-Sweden) * LSP - (Libya-Crete, Greece)


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* MAC - (''Mid-Atlantic Crossing'') (USA, St. Croix) *
Main One The Main One Cable is a submarine communications cable stretching from Portugal to South Africa with landings along the route in various west African countries. On April 28, 2008, it was announced that Main Street Technologies has awarded a t ...
- (Portugal, Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa) (planned) * SLT-Dhiraagu Cable System Maldives-Sri Lanka * Malaysia-Thailand * MAREA *
MARS Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun and the second-smallest planet in the Solar System, only being larger than Mercury. In the English language, Mars is named for the Roman god of war. Mars is a terrestrial planet with a thin at ...
- (Mauritius, Rodrigues) * Marseille-Palermo - (France-Italy) *
MARTEL Martel may refer to: People * Andre Martel (1946–2016), American politician and businessman * Anne-Marie Martel (1644–1673), founder of what is now the Congrégation des Sœurs de l’Enfant-Jésus. * James B. Aguayo-Martel, ophthalmologis ...
(''Marseille - Tel Aviv'') (decommissioned) * MAT-2 - (Italy-Spain) *
MAYA-1 Maya-1 was a Filipino nanosatellite. It was developed under the Philippine Scientific Earth Observation Microsatellite program (PHL-Microsat) and was jointly implemented by the University of the Philippines and the Department of Science and ...
- (USA, Mexico, Cayman Islands, Honduras, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia) * MCN - (''Mid-Caribbean Network'') (Guadeloupe, Dominica, Martinique) * MCS - (''Matrix Cable System'') (Indonesia-Singapore) *
MedNautilus MedNautilus is a submarine telecommunications cable system linking countries bordering the Eastern/Central Mediterranean Sea. It is a successor of the LEV system linking Cyprus, Israel and Italy. It has landing points in: #Catania, Sicily, ...
- (Italy, Greece, Turkey, Israel, Cyprus) * MED Cable - (France-Algeria) * METISS Cable - (Mauritius-Reunion Island-Madagascar-South Africa) (Planned) *
MENA MENA, an acronym in the English language, refers to a grouping of countries situated in and around the Middle East and North Africa. It is also known as WANA, SWANA, or NAWA, which alternatively refers to the Middle East as Western Asia (or ...
- (''Middle East North Africa'') (Italy, Greece, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Oman) * MIC-1 - (''Moratel International Cable 1'') (Batam, Singapore) * Micronesia Cable System - *
MINERVA Minerva (; ett, Menrva) is the Roman goddess of wisdom, justice, law, victory, and the sponsor of arts, trade, and strategy. Minerva is not a patron of violence such as Mars, but of strategic war. From the second century BC onward, the R ...
- (Cyprus-Italy) * Monet (submarine cable) * MOYLE NORTH - (Northern Ireland-Scotland) * MOYLE SOUTH - (Northern Ireland-Scotland) * MT - (Malaysia-Thailand) * MTC - (Guam, Marianas Islands)


N

* NACS - (''North Asia Cable System'') (Hong Kong,China; Taiwan; Japan) * NAFSIKA - (Italy-Greece) * NCP - (''New Cross Pacific Cable Network'') (USA; Japan; South Korea; China; Taiwan) * New Jersey-Bermuda - (USA, Bermuda) (decommissioned) * New Zealand-Fiji - (decommissioned) * NorSea Com 1 - (Norway-UK) * NPC - (''North Pacific Cable'') - (USA, Japan) (decommissioned)


O

*
ODIN Odin (; from non, Óðinn, ) is a widely revered god in Germanic paganism. Norse mythology, the source of most surviving information about him, associates him with wisdom, healing, death, royalty, the gallows, knowledge, war, battle, victory, ...
- (the Netherlands, Denmark, Norway) (portions decommissioned) * Okinawa-Luzon-Hong Kong - (Hong Kong, the Philippines, Japan) (decommissioned - portions in scientific use) * Oman Australia Cable - (Oman-Australia) * Otranto-Corfù - (Italy-Greece) * ORVAL - (Algeria-Spain) (expected to enter into operation in 2018) * Orient Express (cable system) - (Pakistan - UAE)


P

*
PAC Pac or PAC may refer to: Military * Rapid Deployment Force (Malaysia), an armed forces unit * Patriot Advanced Capability, of the MIM-104 Patriot missile * Civil Defense Patrols (''Patrullas de Autodefensa Civil''), Guatemalan militia and paramil ...
- (Pan-American Crossing) (California, Mexico, Panama, Venezuela, and the Caribbean) * Pacific Caribbean Cable System - (''PCCS'') Operational since 2015 * PacRimEast - (''Pacific Rim East'') (New Zealand-Hawaii) (decommissioned) *
PacRimWest PacRimWest was a twin-pair 560Mbit/s optical submarine telecommunications cable which served as Australia's main link to the world along with its partner cables Tasman2 (connecting Australia to New Zealand) and PacRimEast (connecting New Zealand ...
- (''Pacific Rim West'') (Australia-Guam) (decommissioned) * Pakistan-UAE-2 *
PAN AM Pan American World Airways, originally founded as Pan American Airways and commonly known as Pan Am, was an American airline that was the principal and largest international air carrier and unofficial overseas flag carrier of the United State ...
- (''Pan-American Cable System'') *
Pangea Pangaea or Pangea () was a supercontinent that existed during the late Paleozoic and early Mesozoic eras. It assembled from the earlier continental units of Gondwana, Euramerica and Siberia during the Carboniferous approximately 335 million y ...
- (UK-Denmark & UK-the Netherlands) * Pangea (Baltic Sea) - (Sweden, Estonia, Finland) * PC-1 - (''Pacific Crossing'') (California, Washington and Japan) * PEC - (''Pan-European Crossing'') * PLCN - Pacific Light Cable Network (California, US - Taiwan - Philippines) * PPC-1 - (''Pipe Pacific Cable'')(Australia, Papua New Guinea, Guam) * Portugal-UK - (decommissioned) * Project Express - (''Hibernia Atlantic's Project Express'')(Canada-UK) * PTAT-1 - (''Private Trans-Atlantic Telecommunications System'') (USA-UK)


Q

* Qatar-UAE 1 * Qatar-UAE 2 * Quantum Cable


R

* REMBRANDT-1 - (United Kingdom - The Netherlands) (decommissioned) * REMBRANDT-2 - (United Kingdom - The Netherlands) * RIOJA-1 - (United Kingdom - Spain) (decommissioned) * RIOJA-2 - (United Kingdom - Belgium) (decommissioned) * RIOJA-3 - (Belgium - The Netherlands) (decommissioned) * RJCN - (''Russia-Japan Cable Network'') (Russia, Japan) * RJK - (Russia-Japan-Korea) * RNAL - (''Reach North Asia Loop'') (Hong Kong - Taiwan - Japan, Hong Kong - Korea - Japan) *
Russian Optical Trans-Arctic Submarine Cable System Russian(s) refers to anything related to Russia, including: *Russians (, ''russkiye''), an ethnic group of the East Slavic peoples, primarily living in Russia and neighboring countries * Rossiyane (), Russian language term for all citizens and pe ...
(ROTACS) - (UK, Russia, China, Japan) (planned)


S

* SAC - (''South American Crossing'') * SACS - (''South Atlantic Cable System'') * SAex - (''South Atlantic Express'') *
SAFE A safe (also called a strongbox or coffer) is a secure lockable box used for securing valuable objects against theft or fire. A safe is usually a hollow cuboid or cylinder, with one face being removable or hinged to form a door. The body and ...
- (''South Africa-Far East'') (South Africa, Mauritius, India, Malaysia) *
SAm-1 SAm-1 (South America-1) is an optical submarine communications cable. It started operations in 2000, connecting the United States, Puerto Rico, Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Peru and Guatemala. In 2007, SAm-1 was extended to reach Ecuador and Colombia. ...
- (''South America-1'') * SAS - (Samoa-American Samoa) *
SAS-1 Uhuru was the first satellite launched specifically for the purpose of X-ray astronomy. It was also known as the X-ray Explorer Satellite, SAS-A (for Small Astronomy Satellite A, being first of the three-spacecraft SAS series), SAS 1, or Explo ...
- (Saudi Arabia-Sudan) * SAT-1 - (''South Atlantic'') (South Africa, Ascension (UK), Cape Verde, Spain, Portugal) (decommissioned) * SAT-2 - (''South Atlantic'') (South Africa, Spain, Portugal) * SAT-3/WASC - (''South Atlantic 3/West Africa Submarine Cable'') (Portugal, Spain, Senegal, Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, Angola, South Africa) *
SCAN Scan may refer to: Acronyms * Schedules for Clinical Assessment in Neuropsychiatry (SCAN), a psychiatric diagnostic tool developed by WHO * Shared Check Authorization Network (SCAN), a database of bad check writers and collection agency for ba ...
- (''Submarine Cable Asia Network'') (Indonesia, Hong Kong) - planned * Scandinavian Ring * SEA-ME-WE 1 – (''South East Asia-Middle East-Western Europe'') (decommissioned) * SEA-ME-WE 2 – (''South East Asia-Middle East-Western Europe'') (decommissioned) * SEA-ME-WE 3 – (''South East Asia-Middle East-Western Europe'') * SEA-ME-WE 4 – (''South East Asia-Middle East-Western Europe'') *
SEA-ME-WE 5 South East Asia–Middle East–Western Europe 5 (SEA-ME-WE 5) is an optical fibre submarine communications cable system that carries telecommunications between Singapore and France. The cable is approximately 20,000 kilometres long and provid ...
– (''South East Asia-Middle East-Western Europe'') * Seabras-1 - (USA-Brazil) * SEACOM - (Singapore-Jesselton(Kota Kinabalu)-Hong Kong-Guam-Madang-Cairns) (decommissioned) * SEACOM - (South Africa, Madagascar, Mozambique, Tanzania, Kenya, India and Europe) * SF-S5 - (Sweden-Finland) (decommissioned) * SFL - (Sweden-Finland Link) * SFS-4 - (Sweden-Finland) * SG-SCS - (Suriname-Guyana Submarine Cable System) (Trinidad-Guyana-Suriname) * SHEFA-2 - (''Shetland-Faroes'') (UK-Faroes) * SIRIUS NORTH - (Northern Ireland-Scotland) * SIRIUS SOUTH - (Ireland-England) * SJC - (Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, the Philippines, Hong Kong, China, Japan) - planned * SMPR-1 - (St. Maarten-Puerto Rico) * SOLAS - (Ireland-UK) *
Southern Caribbean Fiber Southern Caribbean Fiber, (once known as Antilles Crossing), is an underwater 20 gigabit The bit is the most basic unit of information in computing and digital communications. The name is a portmanteau of binary digit. The bit represents a ...
- (St Kitts, Martinique, St Lucia, St Vincent and the Grenadines, Grenada, Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados, Guadeloupe, Antigua) *
Southern Cross Crux () is a constellation of the southern sky that is centred on four bright stars in a cross-shaped asterism commonly known as the Southern Cross. It lies on the southern end of the Milky Way's visible band. The name ''Crux'' is Latin for ...
- (Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, United States)


T

* T-V-H - (Thailand-Vietnam-Hong Kong) * TAGIDE-2 - (France-Portugal) (decommissioned) * TAIGU - (Taiwan-Guam) (decommissioned) * TAILU - (Taiwan-Luzon) (decommissioned) * TAINO CARIB - (Puerto Rico, US Virgin Islands, British Virgin Islands) * TampNet - (Norway-North Sea Oil Platforms) *
Tangerine The tangerine is a type of citrus fruit that is orange in color. Its scientific name varies. It has been treated as a separate species under the name ''Citrus tangerina'' or ''Citrus'' × ''tangerina'', or treated as a variety of '' Citrus reti ...
- (UK-Belgium) * TASMAN 1 - (Australia-New Zealand) (decommissioned) * TASMAN 2 - (Australia-New Zealand) * TAT-1 - (UK-Canada) (decommissioned) * TAT-2 - (France-Canada) (decommissioned) *
TAT-3 TAT-3 was the third transatlantic telephone cable, in operation from 1963 to 1986. It had 414 kHz of bandwidth, allowing it to carry 138 telephone circuits (simultaneous calls). It was long, connecting Widemouth Bay in Cornwall, England to Tu ...
- (UK-USA) (decommissioned) * TAT-4 - (France-USA) (decommissioned) * TAT-5 - (Spain-USA) (decommissioned) * TAT-6 - (France-USA) (decommissioned) * TAT-7 - (UK-USA) (decommissioned) * TAT-8 - (USA, UK, France) (decommissioned) * TAT-9 - (USA, Canada, Spain) (decommissioned) * TAT-10 - (Germany-USA) (decommissioned) * TAT-11 - (USA, France, UK) (decommissioned) * TAT-12/13 - (USA, UK, France) (decommissioned) * TAT-14 - (USA, UK, France, the Netherlands, Germany, Denmark) (decommissioned) *
TBL Part of the troff suite of Unix document layout tools, tbl is a preprocessor that formats tables in preparation for processing with troff/nroff. Overview Mike Lesk is the original author of tbl. Like the main troff program, it uses command l ...
- (''Trans-Balkan Line'') (Italy-Albania, continuing overland through Macedonia, Bulgaria, and into Turkey) * TCCN - (''Trans Caribbean Cable Network'') - (USA-Jamaica) * TCS-1 - (''Trans-Caribbean System 1'') (decommissioned) * TE North - (''Telecom Egypt North'') (France-Egypt) * TEAMS - (''The East African Marine System'') (UAE-Kenya) *
Telstra Endeavour The Telstra Endeavour is a submarine cable connecting Sydney and Hawaii. The cable went live in October 2008, with a capacity of 1.28 terabits per second in the future (currently at 80 gigabits per second.) It was proposed on 28 March 2007 by Te ...
- (Sydney-Hawaii) * TGA (''Tasman Global Access'') - (Australia-New Zealand) * TIC or
TIISCS TIISCS (Tata Indicom India-Singapore Cable System), also known as TIC (Tata Indicom Cable), is a submarine telecommunications cable linking India and Singapore. It has cable landing point, landing points in Chennai, India and Changi, Singapore. ...
- (''Tata Indicom Cable'') or (''Tata Indicom India-Singapore Cable System'') (India-Singapore) *
TIS TIS, Tis or Tis may refer to: Organisations * Taporoporo'anga Ipukarea Society, an environmental NGO based in the Cook Islands * TransInvestService (TIS), is a large Ukrainian private terminal operator and stevedore operating in the Port of Yuzhn ...
- (Thailand-Indonesia-Singapore) * TPC-1/ TRANSPAC-1 - (''Trans Pacific Cable'') - (Hong Kong, the Philippines, Japan, Guam, Hawaii) (decommissioned - portions in scientific use) * TPC-2/ TRANSPAC-2 - (''Trans Pacific Cable'') - (Singapore, Hong Kong, South Korea, Taiwan, Guam) (decommissioned - portions in scientific use) * TPC-3/ TRANSPAC-3 - (''Trans Pacific Cable'') (decommissioned) * TPC-4 - (''Trans Pacific Cable'') (decommissioned) * TPC-5CN - (''Trans Pacific Cable'') - (Japan, Guam, Hawaii, USA) * TPE - (''Trans-Pacific Express'') (China, Korea, Taiwan, USA) * TPE2 - (''Trans-Pacific Express'') (China, Korea, Taiwan, USA, Japan) * TPICK (''Telecommunication Plan for Improvement of Communications in Korea'') - runs the length of Korea to mainland Japan via Changson-Tsushima-Seburiyama * Trinidad-Curacao * TSE-1 (Taiwan Strait Express 1) (First cable directly connecting Taiwan and mainland China) * TWA-1 (''Transworld Associates'') (UAE-Oman-Pakistan)


U

*
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- (Cyprus-Syria) *
UK-Belgium 5 UK-Belgium 5 was a submarine communications cable linking the UK and Belgium. It was the first international undersea cable system to use optical fibres rather than coaxial cable. The cable was laid in 1986. It was owned by a consortium which inc ...
(decommissioned) * UK-Belgium 6 (decommissioned) * UK-Channel Isles 7 * UK-Channel Isles 8 * UK-Denmark 4 (decommissioned) * UK-France 3 * UK-France 4 (decommissioned) * UK-Germany 5 * UK-Germany 6 * UK-Netherlands 12 (decommissioned) * UK-Netherlands 14 * UK-Spain 4 (decommissioned) * ULYSSES-1 - (UK-France) * ULYSSES-2 - (UK-the Netherlands) * UNISUR - (Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil) *
UNITY Unity may refer to: Buildings * Unity Building, Oregon, Illinois, US; a historic building * Unity Building (Chicago), Illinois, US; a skyscraper * Unity Buildings, Liverpool, UK; two buildings in England * Unity Chapel, Wyoming, Wisconsin, US; a ...
- (Japan-USA)


V

* Ventspils-Farosund (Gotland)-Stockholm * VSNL Northern Europe - (UK-Netherlands) * VSNL Western Europe - (UK, Portugal, Spain) * VSNL SG HK JP Guam - (Singapore, Hong Kong, Japan, Guam) * VSNL Transatlantic - (UK-USA) * VSNL Transpacific - (Japan, Guam, USA) * VMSCS - (''Vodafone Malta-Sicily Cable System'') (Italy-Malta)


W

* WACS - (''West Africa Cable System'') (South Africa, Namibia, Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Republic of Congo, Cameroon, Nigeria, Togo, Ghana, Côte d'Ivoire, Cape Verde, Canary Islands, Portugal, United Kingdom) * WAFS - (''West Africa Festoon System'') *
WASC WASC may refer to: * Supreme Court of Western Australia * WASC (AM), a radio station (1530 AM) licensed to Spartanburg, South Carolina, United States * West Africa Submarine Cable * West African School Certificate The West African Senior School ...
- (''West Africa Submarine Cable'')


X


Y

* Yellow/AC2 - (USA-UK)


Z


See also

*
List of domestic submarine communications cables This is a list of domestic submarine communications cables 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, althoug ...


References


External links


NetworkAtlas.com
— Network Atlas - Global Internet Infrastructure Atlas
SubmarineCableMap.com
— simple map
Detailed interactive world map
— at TeleGeography.com (2018 Version)
Global Caribbean net
— reference site for GCN, MCN, and SCF

— at Atlantic-Cable.com

— at TeleGeography.com
The International Cable Protection Committee
— at ISCPC.org, includes a register of submarine cables worldwide (though not always updated as often as one might hope)
United Kingdom Cable Protection Committee
— at UKCPC.org.uk
Kingfisher Information Service
— at KISCA.org.uk, source of free maps of cable routes around the United Kingdom
France Telecom's fishermen's/submarine cable information
— at SigCables.com
Oregon Fisherman's Cable Committee
— at OFCC.com
SAT3 WASC SAFE undersea cable
— at Safe-Sat3.co.za
Comprehensive list of cable landing sites globally
— at KIDORF.com
List of the suppliers of the world's undersea communications cables
— at KIDORF.com *
Map of all submarine communications cables currently in use
— at KDDI.com, July 2002

— at Eyeball-Series.org

— at Eyeball-Series.org
Gazetteer of submarine cable systems
— at Futures-Perfect.com, cables in service, updated regularly
Google Maps mashup
— from CableMap.info * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:List Of International Submarine Communications Cables Coastal construction