- List of domestic submarine communications cables
This is a list of domestic
submarine communications cable s 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)
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* FiberWeb (Ocean Fiber) - connecting oil rigs off the coast of Louisiana
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* 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) - FranceI
* 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 OkinawaK
* 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 BorneoL
* 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)
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* 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
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* 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 IslandsT
* Taean-Chingdao (South Korea)
* TEFKROS (Cyprus)
* Thailand Domestic
* TM-1 (Taiwan)
* TURMEOS-1 (Turkey Marmora Aegean Optic System) - connects Izmir to IstanbulU
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* 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
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*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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