This is a list of international submarine communications cables. It does not include domestic cable systems, such as those on the coastlines of Japan, Italy, and Brazil. All the cable systems listed below have landing points in two or more countries. Several older cables are no longer used for international telecommunications, but are used for scientific purposes. Others are simply abandoned.
Alphabetic list
2 2Africa – Africa, Middle East, Europe
A AAE-1 – 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 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 Africa-1 – France, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Djibouti, UAE, Pakistan, Somalia, Kenya AIS – Australia-Indonesia-Singapore (decommissioned) AJC – Australia-Japan Cable Alaska Communications System ALETAR – Alexandria-Tarsous; Egypt-Syria Alonso de Ojeda – 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 – 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 – United States, Mexico, Guatemala, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Brazil ANNIBAL – France-Tunisia (decommissioned) ANTILLAS I – Dominican Republic-Puerto Rico Antilles Crossing Phase 1 – US Virgin Islands, St Lucia, Barbados ANZAC Cable System – 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 – 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 – Australia-Papua New Guinea APG – Asia-Pacific Gateway Apollo – USA, UK, France ARCOS-1 – 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) – UK, Canada, USA, Japan (acquired by Quintillion) Arctic Link – UK, Canada, USA, Japan (planned) ARIANE-2 – France-Greece ASE (Asia Submarine Cable Express) – Singapore, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore (2012) ASEAN – Singapore, Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand (decommissioned) ASH – American Samoa, Samoa, Hawaii Atlantica-1/GlobeNet – USA, Bermuda, Venezuela, Brazil ATLANTIS – Brazil, Senegal, Portugal (decommissioned) ATLANTIS-2 – Argentina, Brazil, Senegal, Cape Verde Islands, Canary Islands, Madeira, Spain, Portugal ATLAS – Portugal, Morocco (decommissioned) Atlas Offshore – Morocco-France Australia Singapore Cable – Australia – Singapore Australia West Express (planned) – Perth – Diego Garcia – Djibouti
B BAHAMAS 2 – (USA-Bahamas) BALTICA – (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) Blue-Raman – (France, Italy, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Djibouti, Oman and Italy) BMP – (Brunei, Malaysia, Philippines) (decommissioned) Botnia – (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)
C C-J FOSC – (China-Japan Fibre Optic Submarine Cable) CADMOS – (Cyprus-Lebanon) Canal Zone – Jamaica (Panama, Jamaica) (decommissioned) CANTAT-1 – (Canada Transatlantic) – (Canada-UK) (decommissioned) CANTAT-2 – (Canada Transatlantic) – (Canada-UK) (decommissioned) CANTAT-3 – (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 – (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) Cross-Straits Cable Network (CSCN) (China-Taiwan) Corfù–Bar – (Greece-Montenegro) CORSAR – (Corsica-Sardinia) (France-Italy) Cuba-Venezuela – Cuba-Venezuela (ALBA-1) CUCN – (China-US Cable Network) (Korea-US-China-Japan-Guam)
D 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 – (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 – (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)
F FALCON – see FLAG FALCON below. FARICE-1 – (UK-Faroes-Iceland) FARLAND – (UK-the Netherlands) FASTER – (USA-Japan-Taiwan) FEC – (Finland Estonia Connection) Fehmarn Belt – (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 – (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)
G 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 – (Globacom-1) (Nigeria, Ghana, Senegal, Mauritania, Morocco, Portugal, Spain, UK) (planned) GO-1 – (Italy-Malta) Gondwana-1 – (New Caledonia, Australia) Gotland-Ventspils – (Sweden-Latvia) GPT – (Guam-Philippines-Taiwan) (decommissioned) Grace Hopper – (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 – (Greece to Western Europe Network) (Italy – Greece)
H HANNIBAL – (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 – (New Zealand, Australia, American Samoa, New Caledonia, Hawaii, Oregon) Hawk – (France-Tunisia-Libya-Italy-Turkey-Cyprus-Syria-Egypt) – planned HERMES-1 – (UK-Belgium) HERMES-2 – (UK-Netherlands) Hibernia Atlantic – (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)http://www.subtelforum.com/NewsNow/6_january_2008.htm HUGO – (High capacity, Undersea Guernsey Optical-fibre) (UK, Guernsey, France) HUGO East – (High capacity, Undersea Guernsey Optical-fibre) (France, Jersey, Guernsey)
I I-ME-WE – (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)
J Japan-US JAKABARE – (Java – Kalimantan – Batam – Singapore) (Indonesia-Singapore) JASURAUS – (Jakarta – Surabaya – Australia) (Indonesia-Australia) (Decommissioned) Jersey-Guernsey 4 JKC – (Japan-Korea) (decommissioned – portions in scientific use)