Subsea Cables & Internet Infrastructure

A branching unit moving on a conveyor belt to be lowered into the ocean.

A point: IColo 1 or IColo 2.

Details are limited, but carriers have been bidding on extending the Peace cable from Mombasa to Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania.

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TM is a consortium member of the Bay of Bengal Gateway Cable.

LS1/CT1; $17,500 MRC; Two year term.

Amazon's core network business is cloud services.

I am heading to Nairobi for ITW Africa.

MRC: $19,200.

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This is my first trip outside the Schengen Zone in 2.5 years.

The FEC (forward error correction) encoder takes the bit stream and modifies it so the FEC decoder can detect and correct bit errors due to optical or electronic noise.

And I have the solution to your Lagos metro network nightmare.

Facebook is deploying the first deep sea 1 Petabit per second fibre optic cable with two optical cores per fibre strand.

Facebook's subsea cable subsidary, Edge Cable Holdings, has petitioned the FCC to land a new cable at the NJIX data center in Wall Township, New Jersey.

Communications Authority of Nigeria reports more than 5,000 fiber cuts in the first six months of 2026.

Google is a good example.

An optical amplifier being lowered in the sea during a cable deployment.

On the left is a deep sea fibre optic cable.

Routing: Singapore/Tokyo/LA/Secaucus Equinix/Slough Equinix.

I recommend this book on subsea cable technology.

As most of you know, Kenya is one of East Africa's two subsea hubs (Djibouti is the other).

I don't see any compelling reason for totally excluding Chinese Layer 1 capacity from your network.

Asia United Group East (AUG East) cable's main trunk links Tokyo and Singapore with branches to South Korea, Taiwan, Philippines, Brunei, Malaysia, and possibly Indonesia (the consortium has stated the cable will land in Indonesia, but the map below shows…

Candle is one of the more interesting Intra-Asian cables to go live over the next several years.