List of domestic submarine communications cables

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 (as of August 2007) 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 1A (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)
* CC3 (Continent - Corsica 3) (Marseille - Ajaccio, France)
* CC4 (Continent - Corsica 4) (Cannes - Ile Rousse, France)
* CC5 (Continent - Corsica 5) (La Seyne - Ajaccio, France)
* Columbia Domestic Festoon
* Como Lake Festoon (Italy)
* Cook Strait Fibre Optic Cable (connects North and South Islands of New Zealand)
* CORSAR (Ajaccio, Corsica, France - Golfo Aranci, Sardinia, Italy)

D

* DFON - (Domestic Fibre Optic Network) - (Philippines)

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

* HAW-5 - (Hawaii - US Mainland No. 5) [ [http://www.eyeball-series.org/cablew-eyeball.htm Eyeballing US Transpacific Cable Landings ] ]
* Hong Kong Domestic
* 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)
* 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)
** 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

K

* Korea Domestic
* KSL (Korean Southern Loop) link between Osan US Airbase and Kunsan US Airbase
* KINYRAS (Cyprus)
* Kuantan-Kota Kinabalu (Malaysia) link between Peninsula 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 (Micronesia Domestic)

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)

Q

R

* Sesimbra-Lagos (Portuguese Interconnect)
* Sochi-Poti (Russian Black Sea Interconnect)
* South Korea Domestic
* Sumatra-Java-Melaka (Indonesia)
* Svalbard Undersea Cable System - Mainland Norway to Svalbard Islands

T

* Taean-Chingdao (South Korea)
* TEFKROS (Cyprus)
* Thailand Domestic
* TM-1 (Taiwan)
* TURMEOS-1 (Turkey Marmora 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 (Alaska - Oregon)
* Wellington Harbour Link (Wellington, New Zealand)

X

Y

Z

*ZanLink - (Tanzania)

References

External links

* [http://www.alaskaunited.com/ GCI's AUFS Alaska United Fiber-optic cable System]
* [http://www.attalascom.com/ AT&T Alascom]
* [http://www.wcicable.com/ WCI Cable - AFS Alaska Fiber Star - Northstar cable]
* [http://www.neptunecanada.ca/index.html Neptune - University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada]
* [http://www1.alcatel-lucent.com/submarine/refs/;jsessionid=0VXDTB450NCNBLAWFRUE1CVMCYWGI3GC Alcatel-Lucent Reference List]
* [http://www.iscpc.org/ The International Cable Protection Committee] -- includes a register of submarine cables worldwide
* [http://www.kidorf.com/DBLandings.php Comprehensive list of cable landing sites globally]
* [http://telegeography.com/products/map_cable/index.php Global Communications Submarine Cable Map, 2007]
* [http://www.kisca.org.uk/ Kingfisher Information Service] -- source of free maps of cable routes around the UK
* [http://www.sigcables.com/cgi-bin/index.pl France Telecom's Fishermen's/Submarine Cable Information]
* [http://www.kidorf.com/DBSuppliers.php List of the suppliers of the world's undersea communications cables]
* [http://www.atlantic-cable.com/Cables/CableTimeLine/index.htm Timeline of Submarine Cables, 1850-2007]
* [http://www.vsnlinternational.com/map/ Excellent zoomable map of world submarine cable from VSNL International]


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