This is a list of international submarine communications cable

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....

s and does not include domestic cable systems, such as those on the coastlines of China

China

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Italy

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Brazil

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. All the cable systems listed below have landing points in two or more countries, and are mostly (as of November 2005) in-service. Several older cables, although no longer used for international telecommunications, are used for scientific purposes. Others are simply abandoned.

A

• AAG
  AAG (cable system)
  The Asia-America Gateway is a long submarine communications cable system, connecting South-East Asia with the USA mainland, across the Pacific Ocean via Guam and Hawaii....
  
   - (Asia America Gateway) (Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Brunei, Vietnam, Hong Kong, the Philippines, Guam, Hawaii, Continental USA West Coast)
• AC-1
  AC-1 (cable system)
  Atlantic Crossing 1 is an optical submarine telecommunications cable system linking the USA and three European countries. It transports speech and data traffic between the U.S., the U.K., the Netherlands and Germany.It has landing points in:...
  
   - (Atlantic Crossing) (USA, UK, Germany, the Netherlands)
• AC-2
  AC-2 (cable system)
  Yellow / AC-2 is a submarine telecommunications cable system linking the USA and the UK. The different owners give this cable system different names, so it is known as both Yellow and AC-2...
  
   - (Atlantic Crossing) (USA-UK)
• ACE
  ACE (cable system)
  The ACE submarine communications cable is a cable system undergoing construction along the west coast of Africa between France and South Africa, planned by the ACE consortium which was initiated on June 5, 2010....
  
   - (Africa Coast to Europe) (France, Spain, Portugal, Morocco, Canary Islands (Spain), Western Sahara, Mauritania, Senegal, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon, São Tomé and Príncipe, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Congo, Angola, Namibia, South Africa)(planned for 2011)
• Aden-Djibouti - (Yemen-Djibouti)
• ADRIA-1 - (Croatia, Albania, Greece)
• AIS - (Australia-Indonesia-Singapore)
• AJC
  Australia-Japan Cable
  The Australia–Japan Cable, or AJC, is a 12,700km submarine telecommunications cable system linking Australia and Japan via Guam that became operational in 2001. It had an original design capacity of 640 Gbit/s, but was initially equipped to utilise only 80 Gbit/s of this capacity. In April 2008 a...
  
   - (Australia-Japan Cable)
• Alonso de Ojeda - (Aruba-Curaçao)
• ALPAL-2
  ALPAL-2 (cable system)
  ALPAL-2 is a submarine telecommunications cable system in the Mediterranean Sea linking Algeria and the Spanish Balearic island of Majorca.It has landing points in:#El Djemila, Algiers, Algeria#Ses Covetes, Palma de Mallorca, Majorca, Spain...
  
   - (Algiers-Palma de Mallorca) (Algeria-Spain)
• ALETAR
  ALETAR (cable system)
  ALETAR is a submarine telecommunications cable system in the Mediterranean Sea linking Egypt and Syria.It has landing points in:* Alexandria, Egypt* Tartous, Syria...
  
   - (Alexandria-Tarsous) (Egypt-Syria)
• AMERICAS-1 NORTH - (USA-US Virgin Islands)
• AMERICAS-1 SOUTH - (US Virgin Islands, Trinidad, Venezuela, Brazil)
• AMERICAS-II
  AMERICAS-II
  AMERICAS-II is a fiber optic submarine communications cable that extends among the United States, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Martinique, Curaçao, Trinidad, Venezuela, French Guiana, Suriname, Guyana and Brazil...
  
   - (USA, Puerto Rico, US Virgin Islands, Martinique, Curaçao, Trinidad, Venezuela, French Guiana, Brazil)
• ANTILLAS I
  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....
  
   - (Dominican Republic-Puerto Rico)
• Antilles Crossing Phase 1 - (US Virgin Islands, St Lucia, Barbados)
• ANZCAN - (Australia, New Zealand, Canada)
• APC - (Asia-Pacific Cable) (Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore)
• APCN
  APCN (cable system)
  APCN or Asia-Pacific Cable Network is a submarine telecommunications cable system linking nine Asian countries.It has landing points in:*Petchaburi, Thailand*Mersing, Malaysia*Changi, Singapore*Ancol, Indonesia*Lantau, Hong Kong...
  
   - (Asia-Pacific Cable Network) (Japan, Korea, Philippines, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia, Australia)
• APCN 2
  APCN 2 (cable system)
  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...
  
   - (Asia-Pacific Cable Network 2) (Japan, Korea, Philippines, Taiwan, China, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore)
• APHRODITE-2
  APHRODITE-2 (cable system)
  APHRODITE-2 is a submarine telecommunications cable system in the Mediterranean Sea linking Greece and Cyprus.It has landing points in:* Chania, Greece* Geroskipou/Yeroskipos, Cyprus...
  
   - (Greece-Cyprus)
• APNG
  APNG (cable system)
  APNG is a submarine telecommunications cable system in the Coral Sea linking Australia and Papua New Guinea.It has landing points in Cairns, Queensland, Australia and Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea....
  
   - (Australia-Papua New Guinea)
• APNG-2
  APNG-2 (cable system)
  The APNG-2 submarine communications cable is being 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....
  
   - (Australia-Papua New Guinea)
• Apollo
  Apollo (submarine communications cable)
  Apollo is an optical submarine communications cable system crossing the Atlantic Ocean, owned by Apollo Submarine Cable System Ltd...
  
   - (USA, UK, France)
• ARCOS-1
  ARCOS-1
  The Americas Region Caribbean Ring System 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, Curaçao, Venezuela, Colombia, Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua,...
  
   - (Americas Region Caribbean Ring System) (USA, Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, Netherlands Antilles, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, Turks and Caicos Islands, Bahamas)
• ARIANE-2 - (France-Greece)
• ASEAN
  ASEAN (cable system)
  The ASEAN cable system was a submarine telecommunications cable system linking Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand and the Philippines. It was completed in September 1983, but has since been decommissioned.-Construction:...
  
   - (Singapore, Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand) (decommissioned)
• ASH - (American Samoa, Samoa, Hawaii)
• Atlantica-1/GlobeNet
  Atlantica-1 (cable system)
  GlobeNet is a submarine telecommunications cable system linking the USA, Bermuda, Venezuela and Brazil. It has a design capacity of 1.36 Tbit/s carried over four fiber pairs of fully restorable capacity . It was demonstrated in 2010 that the cable system was capable of supporting 5.76 Terabits on...
  
   - (USA, Bermuda, Venezuela, Brazil)
• ATLANTIS-2
  ATLANTIS-2
  ATLANTIS-2 is a fiber optic transatlantic telecommunications cable connecting Argentina, Brazil, Senegal, Cape Verde, Canary Islands and Portugal.The Atlantis 2 project total cost was US$370 million invest by a 25 international carrier consortium led technically and financially by Embratel with...
  
   - (Argentina, Brazil, Senegal, Cape Verde Islands, Canary Islands, Madeira, Spain, Portugal)
• Atlas Offshore - (Morocco-France)

B

• BAHAMAS 2 - (USA-Bahamas)
• BALTICA - (Poland, Denmark, Sweden)
• BARGEN - (Cabrera de Mar, Barcelona-Genova) (Spain-Italy)
• BARSAV - (Barcelona-Savona) (Spain-Italy)
• BCS - (Sweden-Lithuania)
• BERYTAR
  BERYTAR (cable system)
  BERYTAR is a submarine telecommunications cable system in the Mediterranean Sea linking Syria and the Lebanon.It has landing points in:* Tartous, Syria* Beirut, Lebanon...
  
   - (Beirut-Tarsous) (Syria-Lebanon)
• Bharat Lanka Cable System - (India-Sri Lanka)
• BICS - (Bahamas Internet Cable System)
• BMP - (Brunei, Malaysia, Philippines)
• Botnia - (Sweden-Finland)
• BRCS - (Batam Rengit Cable System) (Indonesia - Malaysia)
• BS - (Brunei-Singapore)
• BSDNi - (Bahamas Domestic Submarine Network international)
• BSFOCS
  BSFOCS (cable system)
  BSFOCS or Black Sea Fibre Optic Cable System is a submarine telecommunications cable system linking three countries bordering the Black Sea...
  
   - (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)

C

• C-J FOSC - (China-Japan Fibre Optic Submarine Cable)
• CADMOS
  CADMOS (cable system)
  CADMOS is a submarine telecommunications cable system in the Mediterranean Sea linking Cyprus and the Lebanon.It has landing points in:* Pentaskhinos, Cyprus* Beirut, Lebanon...
  
   - (Cyprus-Lebanon)
• CANTAT-1
  CANTAT-1
  CANTAT-1 was the first Canadian transatlantic telephone cable. It operated from 1961 to 1986, initially carrying 80 telephone circuits between Newfoundland and Scotland. It was operated by Teleglobe....
  
   - (Canada Transatlantic) - (Canada-UK)
• CANTAT-2
  CANTAT-2
  CANTAT-2 was the second Canadian transatlantic telephone cable,in operation from 1974 to 1992.It could carry 1,840 simultaneous telephone callsbetween Beaver Harbour, Nova Scotia and England....
  
   - (Canada Transatlantic) - (Canada-UK)
• CANTAT-3
  CANTAT-3
  CANTAT-3 is the third Canadian transatlantic telecommunications cable, in operation from 1994, initially carrying 3 x 2.5 Gbit/s between Canada and Europe...
  
   - (Canada Transatlantic) - (Canada, Iceland, the Faeroes, UK, Denmark, Germany)
• CANUS-1 - (Canada-USA)
• CARAC - (Caribbean Atlantic Cable) (Bermuda-Tortola)
• Cayman-Jamaica
• CELTIX CONNECT - (UK-Ireland) (planned 2010)
• CFX - (USA-Colombia)
• Challenger - (USA-Bermuda)
• CIOS
  CIOS (cable system)
  CIOS is a submarine telecommunications cable system in the Mediterranean Sea linking Cyprus and Israel.It has landing points in:* Ayia Napa , Cyprus* Nahariya , Israel...
  
   - (Cyprus-Israel Optical System) (Cyprus-Israel)
• CIRCE NORTH - (UK-the Netherlands)
• CIRCE SOUTH - (UK-France)
• CKC - (China-Korea Cable) (PRC-South Korea)
• CNSFTC - (Central North Sea Fibre Telecommunications Company) - (UK-North Sea oil platforms)
• Colombia-Jamaica-Florida
• COLUMBUS II
  COLUMBUS II (cable system)
  COLUMBUS II is an optical transatlantic telephone cable. It is approx. 12300 km in length. It entered into commercial service in 1994.It is in 3 segments has landing points in:*Columbus II - A - 560 MB/s1. Cancún, Mexico...
  
   - (USA-Mexico-Italy)
• COLUMBUS III
  COLUMBUS III
  COLUMBUS III is a 9900 km transatlantic telecommunications cable. It has 90 repeaters.In service since 1999, it is owned by over 30 carriers. It transfers 20 Gbit/s on each of the 2 fibre pairs.It has landing points in:#Hollywood, Florida, USA...
  
   - (USA-Azores-Portugal-Italy)
• Concerto 1
  Concerto 1 (cable system)
  Concerto 1 is a submarine telecommunications cable system in the North Sea connecting the UK, the Netherlands and Belgium.It is a triangular system with three submarine segments - Concerto 1 North, Concerto 1 South and Concerto 1 East...
  
   - (Triangular UK-Belgium-the Netherlands)
• Corfù–Bar - (Greece-Montenegro)
• CORSAR - (Corsica-Sardinia) (France-Italy)
• Cuba-Venezuela - Cuba-Venezuela
• CUCN
  CUCN (cable system)
  CUCN or China-US Cable Network is a submarine telecommunications cable linking several countries in the Asia-Pacific region.It has landing points in:#Shantou, Guangdong Province, China#Fangshan, Pingtung County, Taiwan Province, Taiwan...
  
   - (China-US Cable Network) (Korea-US-China-Japan-Guam)

D

• Danica North (Denmark-Sweden)
• Danica South (Denmark-Sweden)
• DANICE - (Denmark-Iceland)
• Denmark-Germany 1
• Denmark-Norway 5
• Denmark-Norway 6
• Denmark-Poland 2
• Denmark-Russia 1
• Denmark-Sweden 15
• Denmark-Sweden 16
• Denmark-Sweden 18
• DMCS - (Dumai-Melaka Cable System) (Indonesia-Malaysia)
• DSCS - (Dhiraagu & Sri Lanka Telecom Cable System) (Maldives-Sri Lanka)

E

• EAC-C2C - (East Asia Crossing/C2C) (Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, China, Hong Kong, Singapore, Philippines, Vietnam, Guam, USA)
• Eagle - (Japan-USA) - planned
• EASSy
  EASSY
  The Eastern Africa Submarine Cable System is an undersea fibre optic cable system connecting countries of eastern Africa to the rest of the world....
  
   - (an East Africa Submarine Cable System with endpoints in South Africa and the Sudan)
• ECFS
  ECFS (cable system)
  ECFS or EAST CARIBBEAN FIBRE SYSTEM links 14 eastern Caribbean islands on a repeaterless fibre optical submarine communications cable.The cable is 1730km in length and runs from the British Virgin Islands to Trinidad....
  
   - (Eastern Caribbean Fibre System) (Trinidad, Grenada, St Vincent, Barbados, St Lucia, Martinique, Dominica, Guadeloupe, Montserrat, Antigua, St Kitts, St Maarten, Anguilla, Tortola)
• EDF1 (INGRID) - (Jersey, France)
• EDF2 (INGRID) - (Guernsey, Jersey, France)
• EE-S 1 - (Estonia-Sweden)
• EESF-2 - (Estonia-Finland)
• EESF-3 - (Estonia-Finland)
• EIG
  EIG (cable system)
  Europe India Gateway is a submarine communications cable system that is planned to connect the U.K., Portugal, Gibraltar, Monaco, France, Libya, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Djibouti, Oman, United Arab Emirates, and India. It will be about 15,000 kilometres long. It is planned to be capable of delivering...
  
   - (Europe India Gateway) (UK, Portugal, Morocco, 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)
• Estonia-Sweden 1
• EURAFRICA - (Portugal, Morocco, France)

F

• FALCON
  FALCON (cable system)
  FALCON is a submarine telecommunications cable connecting India and several countries in the Persian Gulf. As part of the Fiber-Optic Link Around the Globe, the cable is operated by India's Flag Telecom, a fully owned subsidiary of Reliance Communications....
  
   - (Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Oman, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, India)
• FARICE-1
  FARICE-1 (cable system)
  FARICE-1 is a submarine communications cable connecting Iceland, the Faroe Islands and Scotland. 80% is owned by Icelandic shareholders and 20% by Faroese shareholders. The cable has been in use since March 2004.The landing points are:...
  
   - (UK-Faroes-Iceland)
• FARLAND
  FARLAND (cable system)
  FARLAND is a submarine telecommunications cable system connecting the UK and the Netherlands.It has landing points near:* Aldeburgh, Suffolk, United Kingdom* Domburg, Veere, Zeeland, the Netherlands...
  
   - (UK-the Netherlands)
• FEC - (Finland Estonia Connection)
• Fibralink - (Jamaica-Dominican Republic)
• Fehmarn Belt - (Denmark-Germany)
• FLAG FA-1
  Fiber-Optic Link Around the Globe
  Fiber-Optic Link Around the Globe is a 28,000-kilometer-long submarine communications cable containing optical fiber that connects the United Kingdom, Japan, and many places in between. The cable is operated by India's Flag Telecom, a fully owned subsidiary of Reliance Communications. The system...
  
   - (FLAG Atlantic) (USA, UK, France)
• FLAG FALCON
  Fiber-Optic Link Around the Globe
  Fiber-Optic Link Around the Globe is a 28,000-kilometer-long submarine communications cable containing optical fiber that connects the United Kingdom, Japan, and many places in between. The cable is operated by India's Flag Telecom, a fully owned subsidiary of Reliance Communications. The system...
  
   - (FLAG Alcatel-Lucent Optical Network) - (Egypt, Sudan, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar, UAE, Kuwait, Oman, India, Maldives)
• FLAG FEA
  Fiber-Optic Link Around the Globe
  Fiber-Optic Link Around the Globe is a 28,000-kilometer-long submarine communications cable containing optical fiber that connects the United Kingdom, Japan, and many places in between. The cable is operated by India's Flag Telecom, a fully owned subsidiary of Reliance Communications. The system...
  
   - (FLAG Europe-Asia) (UK, Spain, Italy, Jordan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, India, Malaysia, Thailand, Hong Kong, China, South Korea, Japan)
• FLAG FNAL
  Fiber-Optic Link Around the Globe
  Fiber-Optic Link Around the Globe is a 28,000-kilometer-long submarine communications cable containing optical fiber that connects the United Kingdom, Japan, and many places in between. The cable is operated by India's Flag Telecom, a fully owned subsidiary of Reliance Communications. The system...
  
   - (FLAG North Asian Loop) (Hong Kong, Taiwan, South Korea, Japan)
• FLAG FP-1 - (FLAG Pacific) (Japan, Canada, USA)
• FOG - (Fiber Optic Gulf) (UAE-Qatar-Bahrain-Kuwait)
• FOG2 - (Fiber Optic Gulf 2) (UAE-Iraq-Saudi Arabia)

G

• GCN - (Global Caribbean Network) (Guadeloupe, St. Martin, Ste. Croix, Puerto Rico)
• G-P
  G-P (cable system)
  G-P is a submarine telecommunications cable system in the North Pacific Ocean linking the two named territories.It has landing points in:...
  
   - (Guam-Philippines)
• Gemini - (USA-UK)
• Georgia-Russia
• Germany-Denmark 1
• Germany-Denmark 2
• Germany-Sweden 4
• Germany-Sweden 5
• GLO-1
  GLO-1 (cable system)
  The GLO-1 submarine communications cable is a cable system along the west coast of Africa between Nigeria and the UK.The submarine cable system is 9,800 km long, and became operational in 2010 with a minimum capacity of 640 Gbit/s....
  
   - (Globacom-1) (Nigeria, Ghana, Senegal, Mauritania, Morocco, Portugal, Spain, UK) (planned)
• GO-1
  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...
  
   - (Italy-Malta)
• Gondwana-1
  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...
  
   - (New Caledonia, Australia)
• Gotland-Ventspils - (Sweden-Latvia)
• GPT - (Guam-Philippines-Taiwan)
• Greenland Connect
  Greenland Connect
  Greenland Connect is a submarine communications cable system that connects Canada, Greenland, and Iceland. The cable contains two fibre pairs specified for 128*10 Gbit/s wavelength each. Initial lit capacity is 1*10 Gbit/s for each fibre pair. Two additional 10 Gbit/s Wavelength are scheduled for...
  
   - (Canada-Greenland-Iceland)
• Gulf Bridge International
  Gulf Bridge International
  Gulf Bridge International is the Middle East’s first privately owned submarine cable system linking Gulf countries on a self healing ring to each other and onwards to the rest of the world...
  
   (GBI) - (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 2011)
• GWEN - (Greece to Western Europe Network) (Italy - Greece)

H

• HANNIBAL - (Tunisia-Italy)
• HANTRU-1 - (Guam - Pohnpei (FSM) - Majuro (Marshall Islands) - Kwajalein)
• Hawk - (France-Tunisia-Libya-Italy-Turkey-Cyprus-Syria-Egypt) - planned
• HERMES-1 - (UK-Belgium)
• HERMES-2 - (UK-Netherlands)
• Hibernia Atlantic
  Hibernia Atlantic
  Hibernia Atlantic is a privately held, US-owned, transatlantic submarine communications cable system in the North Atlantic Ocean which connects Canada, the United States, Ireland, the United Kingdom and Europe....
  
   - (UK, Ireland, Canada, USA)
• HJK - (Hong Kong-Japan-Korea)
• Honotua - (Tahiti-Hawaii)
• HONTAI-2 - (Hong Kong-Taiwan)
• HSCS - (Hokkaido-Sakhalin Cable System) (Russia - Japan)
• HUGO
  HUGO (cable system)
  HUGO is a submarine telecommunications cable linking the United Kingdom, the Channel Islands, and France.It has landing points in:#Porthcurno, Cornwall, England, the United Kingdom...
  
   - (High capacity, Undersea Guernsey Optical-fibre) (UK, Guernsey, France)
• HUGO East
  HUGO (cable system)
  HUGO is a submarine telecommunications cable linking the United Kingdom, the Channel Islands, and France.It has landing points in:#Porthcurno, Cornwall, England, the United Kingdom...
  
   - (High capacity, Undersea Guernsey Optical-fibre) (France, Jersey, Guernsey)

I

• I-ME-WE
  I-ME-WE
  I-ME-WE 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...
  
   - (India-Middle East-Western Europe) (India, Pakistan, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, the Lebanon, Italy, France) (planned)
• i2i
  I2i (cable system)
  i2i is a submarine telecommunications cable connecting India to Singapore. This cable is owned by Bharti Airtel Limited of India. Its landing points are:*Chennai, India*Tuas, Singapore...
  
   - (India-Singapore)
• India-UAE
• IOCOM - (India-Malaysia)
• 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
  ITUR (cable system)
  ITUR or Italy - Turkey - Ukraine - Russia is a submarine telecommunications cable system linking the aforementioned countries.It has landing points in:#Palermo, Sicily, Italy#Istanbul, Turkey#Odessa, Ukraine#Novorossiysk, Russia-References:...
  
   - (Italy-Turkey-Ukraine-Russia)

J

• Japan-US
  Japan-US (cable system)
  Japan-US is a submarine telecommunications cable system in the North Pacific Ocean linking the USA and Japan.It has landing points in:*Shima, Mie Prefecture, Japan...
  
  
• JAKABARE - (Java - Kalimantan - Batam - Singapore) (Indonesia-Singapore)
• JASURAUS
  JASURAUS (cable system)
  Jasuraus is a 5 Gbit/s, 2800km optical submarine telecommunications cable connecting Jakarta in Indonesia to Port Hedland In Australia. The name was derived from a concatenation of the original planned sites of 'Jakarta' - 'Surabaya' - 'Australia'...
  
   - (Jakarta - Surabaya - Australia) (Indonesia-Australia)
• Jersey-Guernsey 4
• JKC - (Japan-Korea)
• JNAC - (USA, Japan, China, South Korea, Taiwan) (planned, but not built)

K

• KELTRA-2 - (Kelibia-Trapani) (Tunisia-Italy)
• KAFOS
  KAFOS (cable system)
  KAFOS is a submarine telecommunications cable system in the Black Sea linking Romania, Bulgaria, and Turkey.It has landing points in:*Mangalia, Romania*Varna, Bulgaria*Istanbul, Turkey...
  
   - (Karadeniz Fiber Optik Sistemi) (Turkey, Bulgaria, Romania)
• KATTEGAT-1 - (Denmark-Sweden)
• KDN-Reliance - (Yemen - Kenya) (planned for 2007)
• KJCN - (Korea-Japan Cable Network)
• Kuwait-Iran

L

• LANIS-1 - (Isle of Man-UK)
• LANIS-2 - (Northern Ireland (UK) -Isle of Man)
• LANIS-3 - (Northern Ireland-Scotland)
• LEV
  LEV (cable system)
  LEV is a submarine telecommunications cable system in the Mediterranean Sea linking Italy, Cyprus and Israel.It has landing points in:#Mazara del Vallo, Province of Trapani, Sicily, Italy#Yeroskipou near Paphos, Cyprus#Tel Aviv, Israel...
  
   - (Italy, Cyprus, Israel)
• Liberty - (UK, Guernsey, Jersey, France)
• LION
  LION (cable system)
  Lower Indian Ocean Network is a submarine communications cable system that connects Madagascar, Réunion, and Mauritius . It is 1,000 kilometres long...
  
   - (Lower Indian Ocean Network) (Madagascar, Reunion, Mauritius)
• LV-SE 1 - (Latvia-Sweden)

M

• MAC - (Mid-Atlantic Crossing) (USA, St. Croix)
• Main One - (Portugal, Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa) (planned)
• SLT-Dhiraagu Cable System Maldives-Sri Lanka
• Malaysia-Thailand
• Marseille-Palermo - (France-Italy)
• MAT-2 - (Italy-Spain)
• MAYA-1
  MAYA-1 (cable system)
  MAYA-1 is an optical submarine telephone cable.It began service in 2000, using SDH and EDFA technologies and has a capacity of 82.5 Gbit/s. Owned and maintained by AT&T, Telmex, Hondutel, it is in length and was manufactured by ASN .It has landing points in:#Hollywood, Florida, USA#Cancún,...
  
   - (USA, Mexico, Cayman Islands, Honduras, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia)
• MCN - (Mid-Caribbean Network) (Guadeloupe, Dominica, Martinique)
• MCS
  Matrix cable system
  MCS or Matrix Cable System is a submarine telecommunications cable linking Indonesia and Singapore with a 2nd phase to Australia.Constructed by tyco It has landing points in:*Pantai Mutiara, Jakarta, Indonesia...
  
   - (Matrix Cable System) (Indonesia-Singapore)
• MedNautilus
  MedNautilus (cable system)
  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...
  
   - (Italy, Greece, Turkey, Israel, Cyprus)
• MED Cable - (France-Algeria)
• MENA
  MENA (cable system)
  Middle East North Africa is a submarine communications cable system that is planned to connect Italy, Greece, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Oman, and India. It will be about 9,000 kilometres long...
  
   - (Middle East North Africa) (Italy, Greece, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Oman)
• MINERVA
  MINERVA (cable system)
  The MINERVA cable system is a submarine telecommunications cable system connecting Italy with Cyprus.It has cable landing points at:* Mazara del Vallo, Province of Trapani, Sicily, Italy* Catania, Province of Catania, Sicily, Italy...
  
   - (Cyprus-Italy)
• MOYLE NORTH - (Northern Ireland-Scotland)
• MOYLE SOUTH - (Northern Ireland-Scotland)
• MIC-1 - (Moratel International Cable 1) (Batam, Singapore)

N

• NACS - (North Asia Cable System) (Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan)
• NAFSIKA - (Italy-Greece)
• NorSea Com 1
  NorSea Com 1 (cable system)
  NorSea Com-1 is a submarine telecommunications cable system in the North Sea linking the UK and Norway, and connecting five off-shore platforms.It has landing points in:#Lowestoft, Suffolk, UK#Kårstø, Rogaland, NorwayAnd connecting the following platforms:...
  
   - (Norway-UK)
• NPC
  NPC (cable system)
  NPC is a submarine telecommunications cable system in the North Pacific Ocean linking the USA and Japan.It has landing points in:#Miura, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan#Pacific City, Tillamook County, Oregon, USA...
  
   - (North Pacific Cable) - (USA, Japan)

O

• ODIN
  ODIN (cable system)
  ODIN was a submarine telecommunications cable system linking the Netherlands, Denmark, Norway, and Sweden.It was 1040 km in length and used Synchronous Digital Hierarchy technology and had two 2.5Gbit/s lines and can simultaneously carry 30,000 telephone calls...
  
   - (the Netherlands, Denmark, Norway)
• Okinawa-Luzon-Hong Kong - (Hong Kong, the Philippines, Japan and North America)
• Otranto-Corfù - (Italy-Greece)

P

• PAC - (Pan-American Crossing) (California, Mexico, Panama, Venezuela, and the Caribbean)
• PacRimEast - (Pacific Rim East) (New Zealand-Hawaii)
• PacRimWest
  PacRimWest (cable system)
  PacRimWest was a twin pair 560Mb/s optical submarine telecommunications cable which served as Australia's main link to the world along with its partner cables Tasman2 and Pacrim East ....
  
   - (Pacific Rim West) (Australia-Guam)
• Pakistan-UAE-2
• PAN AM
  PAN AM (cable system)
  PAN-AM is a submarine telecommunications cable system connecting the west coast of South America and the Caribbean, crossing the continent through PanamaIt has landing points in:#Arica, Arica Province, Tarapacá Region, Chile...
  
   - (Pan-American Cable System)
• Pangea
  Pangea (cable system)
  Pangea is a submarine telecommunications cable system transiting the North Sea.It consists of two widely separated submarine segments - Pangea North and Pangea SouthPangea North has landing points at:...
  
   - (UK-Denmark & UK-the Netherlands)
• Pangea (Baltic Sea) - (Sweden, Estonia, Finland)
• PC-1
  PC-1 (cable system)
  PC-1 is a submarine telecommunications cable system in the North Pacific Ocean linking the USA and Japan.It has landing points in:#Shima, Mie Prefecture, Japan#Ajigaura, Hitachinaka, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan...
  
   - (Pacific Crossing) (California, Washington and Japan)
• PEC
  PEC (cable system)
  PEC or Pan European Crossing is a fibre optic cable network that links many countries in Western Europe. It has a submarine telecommunications cable system segment crossing the English Channel linking the United Kingdom, Belgium, and France....
  
   - (Pan-European Crossing)
• PPC-1
  Pipe Pacific Cable
  PIPE Pacific Cable is a submarine cable laid by PIPE Networks between Guam and Australia.The cable is approximately 6900 km long, and runs from Cromer, Australia, to Piti, Guam....
  
   - (Pipe Pacific Cable)(Australia, Papua New Guinea, Guam)
• PTAT-1
  PTAT-1
  PTAT-1 was the first privately financed transatlantic fiber optic cable, which was completed in 1989, at a cost of 400 million US dollars.It was maintained by C&W and Sprint/PSI and connected Manasquan, New Jersey, USA with Devonshire, Bermuda and Ballinspittle, Ireland, terminating at Brean,...
  
   - (Private Trans-Atlantic Telecommunications System) (USA-UK)

R

• REMBRANDT-1
  REMBRANDT-1 (cable system)
  REMBRANDT-1 is a submarine telecommunications cable system linking the United Kingdom and the Netherlands across the southern North Sea.It has landing points in:#Pakefield near Lowestoft, Suffolk, United Kingdom...
  
   - (UK-the Netherlands)
• REMBRANDT-2
  REMBRANDT-2 (cable system)
  REMBRANDT-2 is a submarine telecommunications cable system linking the United Kingdom and the Netherlands across the southern North Sea.It has landing points in:*Joss bay, Broadstairs and St Peters, Kent, United Kingdom*Domburg, Zeeland, The Netherlands...
  
   - (UK-the Netherlands)
• RIOJA-1
  RIOJA-1 (cable system)
  RIOJA-1 was a submarine telecommunications cable system linking the United Kingdom and Spain across the North Atlantic Ocean.It had landing points in:*Porthcurno, Cornwall, United Kingdom*Virgen del Mar Beach, Santander, Spain...
  
   - (UK-Spain)
• RIOJA-2
  RIOJA-2 (cable system)
  RIOJA-2 was a submarine telecommunications cable system linking the United Kingdom and Belgium across the North Atlantic Ocean/English Channel.It had landing points in:#Porthcurno, Cornwall, United Kingdom#De Panne, West Flanders, Belgium...
  
   - (UK-Belgium)
• RIOJA-3
  RIOJA-3 (cable system)
  RIOJA-3 was a submarine telecommunications cable system linking the Belgium and the Netherlands across the southern North Sea.It had landing points in:#Oostduinkerke-Bad, Koksijde, West Flanders, Belgium...
  
   - (Belgium-the Netherlands)
• RJK
  RJK (cable system)
  RJK or Russia-Japan-Korea is a submarine telecommunications cable system linking the three named countries bordering the Sea of Japan. It began operation in 1995.It has landing points in:*Nakhodka, Russia*Naoetsu, Japan*Pusan, Korea...
  
   - (Russia-Japan-Korea)
• RNAL
  RNAL (cable system)
  REACH North Asia Loop is a multi terabit intra Asia self-healing submarine telecommunications cable system connecting the principal cities in Asia....
  
   - (Reach North Asia Loop) (Hong Kong-Taiwan-Japan, Hong Kong-Korea-Japan)

S

• SAC - (South American Crossing)
• SAS-1 - (Saudi Arabia-Sudan)
• SAT-2
  SAT-2 (cable system)
  SAT-2 is a submarine communications cable linking Melkbosstrand, South Africa, to El Medano, Tenerife Island, Spain and Funchal, Madeira islands, Portugal...
  
   - (South Atlantic) (South Africa, Spain, Portugal)
• SAT-3/WASC
  SAT-3/WASC (cable system)
  SAT-3/WASC or South Atlantic 3/West Africa Submarine Cable is a submarine communications cable linking Portugal and Spain to South Africa, with connections to several West African countries along the route. It forms part of the SAT-3/WASC/SAFE cable system, where the SAFE cable links South Africa...
  
   - (South Atlantic 3/West Africa Submarine Cable) (Portugal, Spain, Senegal, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, Angola, South Africa)
• SAFE
  SAFE (cable system)
  The South Africa Far East cable is an optical fiber submarine communications cable linking Melkbosstrand, South Africa to Penang, Malaysia.It was commissioned in 2002 and built by Tyco Submarine Systems of the USA with an initial capacity of 10 Gigabits per second, which is upgradeable to 130...
  
   - (South Africa-Far East) (South Africa, Mauritius, India, Malaysia)
• SAm-1
  SAm-1 (cable system)
  SAm-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)
• SCAN - (Submarine Cable Asia Network) (Indonesia, Hong Kong) - planned
• Scandinavian Ring
• SCF - (Southern Caribbean Fiber) (St Kitts, Martinique, St Lucia, St Vincent and the Grenadines, Grenada, Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados, Guadeloupe, Antigua)
• SEA-ME-WE 2 - (South East Asia-Middle East-Western Europe)
• SEA-ME-WE 3
  SEA-ME-WE 3 (cable system)
  SEA-ME-WE 3 or South-East Asia - Middle East - Western Europe 3 is an optical submarine telecommunications cable linking those regions and is the longest in the world, completed in late 2000. It is operated by India's Tata Communications and 92 other investors from the telecom industry...
  
   - (South East Asia-Middle East-Western Europe)
• SEA-ME-WE 4
  SEA-ME-WE 4 (cable system)
  South East Asia–Middle East–Western Europe 4 is an optical fibre submarine communications cable system that carries telecommunications between Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Bangladesh, India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Egypt, Italy, Tunisia, Algeria and France...
  
   - (South East Asia-Middle East-Western Europe)
• SEACOM I - (Singapore-Jesselton(Kota Kinabalu)-Hong Kong)
• SEACOM II - (Hong Kong-Guam-Madang-Cairns)
• SEACOM - (South Africa, Madagascar, Mozambique, Tanzania, Kenya, India and Europe)
• SFL - (Sweden-Finland Link)
• SFS-4 - (Sweden-Finland)
• SG-SCS - (Suriname-Guyana Submarine Cable System) (Trinidad-Guyana-Suriname)
• SHEFA-2
  SHEFA-2
  SHEFA-2 is an undersea communication cable linking the Faroe Islands to mainland Scotland via the Northern Isles. It is named after the route on which it is being deployed and succeeds an earlier cable called SHEFA-1 on the same route....
  
   - (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
  SMPR-1 (cable system)
  St. Maarten Puerto Rico-1 or SMPR-1 is a non-repeated submarine telecommunications cable system of 375 km which uses Wavelength Division Multiplexing technology to link St. Maarten and Puerto Rico.It has landing points in:...
  
   - (St. Maarten-Puerto Rico)
• SOLAS - (Ireland-UK)
• Southern Cross
  Southern Cross Cable
  The Southern Cross Cable, operated by Bermuda company Southern Cross Cables Limited, is a trans-Pacific network of telecommunications cables commissioned in 2000....
  
   - (Australia, New Zealand, United States)
• SPIN
  SPIN (cable system)
  SPIN is a submarine communications cable system that will connect the New Zealand to Tahiti and will connect several South Pacific islands along the way. The SPIN cable will be long and will have a 64x10 Gbit/s capacity. It should be in service late 2010...
  
   - (New Zealand, New Caldonia, Norfolk Island, Vanuatu, Wallis, Samoa, American Samoa, Tahiti)

T

• T-V-H
  T-V-H (cable system)
  T-V-H is a submarine telecommunications cable system in the South China Sea linking Thailand, Vietnam, and Hong Kong.It has landing points in:*Sri Racha, Chonburi Province, Thailand...
  
   - (Thailand-Vietnam-Hong Kong)
• TAGIDE-2 - (France-Portugal)
• TampNett - (Norway-North Sea Oil Platforms)
• Tangerine
  Tangerine (cable system)
  Tangerine is a submarine telecommunications cable system segment crossing the English Channel linking the United Kingdom and Belgium.It has landing points in:#Dumpton Gap, Broadstairs, Kent, United Kingdom#Mariakerke near Ostend, West Flanders, Belgium...
  
   - (UK-Belgium)
• TASMAN 2 - (Australia-New Zealand)
• TAT-1
  TAT-1
  TAT-1 was the first submarine transatlantic telephone cable system. It was laid between Gallanach Bay, near Oban, Scotland and Clarenville, Newfoundland between 1955 and 1956. It was inaugurated on September 25, 1956, initially carrying 36 telephone channels.-History:The first transatlantic...
  
   - (UK-Canada)
• TAT-2
  TAT-2
  TAT-2 was AT&T's second transatlantic telephone cable. It was in operation from 1959 to 1982, initially carrying 48 telephone circuits between France and Newfoundland....
  
   - (France-Canada)
• TAT-3
  TAT-3
  TAT-3 was AT&T's third transatlantic telephone cable. It was in operation from 1963 to 1986, initially carrying 138 telephone circuits between England and New Jersey....
  
   - (UK-USA)
• TAT-4
  TAT-4
  TAT-4 was AT&T's fourth transatlantic telephone cable. It was in operation from 1965 to 1987, initially carrying 138 telephone circuits between France and New Jersey....
  
   - (France-USA)
• TAT-5
  TAT-5
  TAT-5 was AT&T's 5th transatlantic telephone cable,in operation from 1970 to 1993,initially carrying 845 telephone circuits ,between Rhode Island and Conil de la Frontera, , Spain....
  
   - (Spain-USA)
• TAT-6
  TAT-6
  TAT-6 was AT&T's sixth transatlantic telephone cable. It was in operation from 1976 to 1994, initially carrying 4,800 telephone circuits between Rhode Island and France....
  
   - (France-USA)
• TAT-7
  TAT-7
  TAT-7 was AT&T's 7th transatlantic telephone cable,in operation from 1978 to 1994, initially carrying 4,000 telephone circuits between New Jersey and England....
  
   - (UK-USA)
• TAT-8
  TAT-8
  TAT-8 was the 8th transatlantic telecommunications cable,initially carrying 40,000 telephone circuits between USA, England and France. It was constructed in 1988 by a consortium of companies led by AT&T, France Telecom, and British Telecom...
  
   - (USA, UK, France)
• TAT-9
  TAT-9
  TAT-9 was AT&T's 9th transatlantic telephone cable,in operation from 1992 to 2004,initially carrying 80,000 telephone circuits between USA, Canada and Spain....
  
   - (USA, Canada, Spain)
• TAT-10
  TAT-10
  TAT-10 was AT&T's 10th transatlantic telephone cable, in operation from 1992 to 2003, initially carrying 2 x 565 Mbit/s between USA and Norden in Germany....
  
   - (Germany-USA)
• TAT-11
  TAT-11
  TAT-11 was AT&T's 11th transatlantic telephone cable, in operation from 1993, initially carrying 2 x 565 Mbit/s between USA and France.The cable ran between Manahawkin, New Jersey to Saint-Hilaire-de-Riez in France and Oxwich Bay in Wales....
  
   - (USA, France, UK)
• TAT-12/13
  TAT-12/13
  TAT-12/13 is a ring cable system consisting of the 12th and 13th consortia transatlantic telephone cables, in operation from 1996, initially carrying 2 × 5 Gbit/s....
  
   - (USA, UK, France)
• TAT-14
  TAT-14
  TAT-14 is the 14th consortia transatlantic telecommunications cable system. In operation from 2001, it utilises wavelength division multiplexing. The cable system is built from multiple pairs of fibres—one fibre in each pair is used for data carried in one direction and the other in the opposite...
  
   - (USA, UK, France, the Netherlands, Germany, Denmark)
• TBL - (Trans-Balkan Line) (Italy-Albania, continuing overland through Macedonia, Bulgaria, and into Turkey)
• TCCN - (Trans Caribbean Cable Network) - (USA-Jamaica)
• TCS-1
  TCS-1 (cable system)
  TCS-1 was an optical submarine telephone cable.It was installed in 1990, was 2,593km in length and had a capacity of 280 Mbit/s. Service was ended on 9 January 2004. It was owned and maintained by AT&T, MCI and Sprint...
  
   - (Trans-Caribbean System 1)
• TE North - (Telecom Egypt North) (France-Egypt)
• TEAMS
  TEAMS (cable system)
  TEAMS is an initiative spearheaded by the government of Kenya to link the country to the rest of the world through a submarine fibre optic cable. It was first proposed as an alternative to EASSy, the East African Submarine Cable System...
  
   - (The East African Marine System) (UAE-Kenya)
• Telstra Endeavour - (Sydney-Hawaii)
• TIC
  TIISCS (cable system)
  TIISCS , also known as TIC is a submarine telecommunications cable linking India and Singapore.It has landing points in Chennai, India and Changi, Singapore....
  
   or TIISCS
  TIISCS (cable system)
  TIISCS , also known as TIC is a submarine telecommunications cable linking India and Singapore.It has landing points in Chennai, India and Changi, Singapore....
  
   - (Tata Indicom Cable) or (Tata Indicom India-Singapore Cable System) (India-Singapore)
• TIS
  TIS (cable system)
  TIS is a submarine telecommunications cable system in the South China Sea linking Thailand, Singapore, and IndonesiaIt has landing points in:#Songkhla, Songkhla Province, Thailand#Changi, Singapore...
  
   - (Thailand-Indonesia-Singapore)
• TPC-1/TRANSPAC-1 - (Trans Pacific Cable) - (Vietnam, Hong Kong, the Philippines, Japan, Guam, Hawaii)
• TPC-2/TRANSPAC-2 - (Trans Pacific Cable) - (Singapore, Hong Kong, South Korea, Taiwan, Guam)
• TPC-3/TRANSPAC-3 - (Trans Pacific Cable)
• TPC-4 - (Trans Pacific Cable)
• TPC-5CN
  TPC-5CN (cable system)
  TPC-5CN or Trans-Pacific Cable 5 Cable Network is a submarine telecommunications cable system linking Japan, Guam, Hawaii and mainland USA.It has landing points in:*Ninomiya, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan*Bandon, Coos County, Oregon, USA...
  
   - (Trans Pacific Cable) - (Japan, Guam, Hawaii, USA)
• TPE
  TPE (cable system)
  TPE or Trans-Pacific Express is a submarine telecommunications cable linking China, South Korea, Taiwan, Japan, and the USA. The line is a $500 million USD joint venture between 6 telecommunication companies China Telecom, China Netcom, China Unicom, Chunghwa Telecom, Korea Telecom, and Verizon...
  
   - (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
• TWA-1
  TWA-1 (cable system)
  TWA-1 is a 1300 km submarine telecommunications cable linking the United Arab Emirates, Oman, and Pakistan. The cable was launched by an Oman telecom giant Omantel and Pakistan'sTransworld Associates along with Tyco International, USA...
  
   (Transworld Associates) (UAE-Oman-Pakistan)

U

• UGARIT
  UGARIT (cable system)
  UGARIT is a submarine telecommunications cable system in the Mediterranean Sea linking Cyprus and Syria.It has landing points in:* Pentaskhinos, Cyprus* Tartous, Syria...
  
   - (Cyprus-Syria)
• UK-Belgium 5
  UK-Belgium 5 (cable system)
  UK-Belgium 5 was a submarine communications cable linking the UK and Belgium. It is notable for having been the very first international undersea cable system to use optical fibres rather than coaxial cable....
  
  
• UK-Belgium 6
• UK-Channel Isles 7
• UK-Channel Isles 8
• UK-Denmark 4
• UK-France 3
• UK-France 4
• UK-Germany 5
• UK-Germany 6
• UK-Netherlands 12
• UK-Netherlands 14
• UK-Spain 4
• ULYSSES-1
  ULYSSES (cable system)
  ULYSSES is a submarine communications cable network divided into two sections: ULYSSES-1 and ULYSSES-2 that transit the English Channel and the North Sea, respectively. It carries telecommunications and internet signals to-and-from the UK to continental Europe...
  
   - (UK-France)
• ULYSSES-2
  ULYSSES (cable system)
  ULYSSES is a submarine communications cable network divided into two sections: ULYSSES-1 and ULYSSES-2 that transit the English Channel and the North Sea, respectively. It carries telecommunications and internet signals to-and-from the UK to continental Europe...
  
   - (UK-the Netherlands)
• UNISUR
  UNISUR (cable system)
  UNISUR is an optical submarine telecommunications cable system in the South Atlantic Ocean linking Argentina, Uruguay, and Brazil.It has landing points in:#Florianópolis, Santa Catarina State, Brazil#Maldonado, Maldonado Department, Uruguay...
  
   - (Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil)
• UNITY
  Unity (submarine cable)
  Unity is a Trans-Pacific submarine communications cable between Japan and the United States which is currently under construction. Google is investing with other partners...
  
   - (Japan-USA) (under construction)

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
  WACS (cable system)
  WACS is an under-construction submarine communications cable linking South Africa with the United Kingdom along the west coast of Africa which is being constructed by Alcatel-Lucent. The cable is 14,000 km in length, linking from Yzerfontein in the Western Cape of South Africa to London in...
  
   - (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)(planned for 2011)
• WAFS - (West Africa Festoon System)
• WASC
  SAT-3/WASC (cable system)
  SAT-3/WASC or South Atlantic 3/West Africa Submarine Cable is a submarine communications cable linking Portugal and Spain to South Africa, with connections to several West African countries along the route. It forms part of the SAT-3/WASC/SAFE cable system, where the SAFE cable links South Africa...
  
  - (West Africa Submarine Cable)

External links

• Global Caribbean Net - Reference site for GCN, MCN, and SCF
• Timeline of Submarine Cables, 1850-2007
• TeleGeography Submarine Cable Map
• The International Cable Protection Committee -- includes a register of submarine cables worldwide (though not always updated as often as one might hope)
• The UK Cable Protection Committee
• Kingfisher Information Service -- source of free maps of cable routes around the UK
• France Telecom's Fishermen's/Submarine Cable Information
• Oregon Fisherman's Cable Committee
• SAT3 WASC SAFE Undersea Cable
• Comprehensive list of cable landing sites globally
• List of the suppliers of the world's undersea communications cables
• Internet/Tel Undersea Cables of the World
• Map of all submarine communications cables currently in use, KDDI, July 2002
• Map and Satellite views of US landing sites for transatlantic cables
• Map and Satellite views of US landing sites for transpacific cables
• Gazetteer of Submarine Cable Systems
• Google Maps Mashup from cablemap.info