List of domestic submarine communications cables

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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.

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[edit] 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)

[edit] 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)

[edit] 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)

[edit] D

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

[edit] E

[edit] F

FiberWeb (Ocean Fiber) - connecting oil rigs off the coast of Louisiana

[edit] 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)

[edit] H

HAW-5 - (Hawaii - US Mainland No. 5)^[1]
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

[edit] 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)

[edit] 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

[edit] 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

[edit] 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)

[edit] 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)

[edit] 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)

[edit] O

OLERON (France mainland and Oleron Island connection)

[edit] 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)

[edit] Q

[edit] R

[edit] S

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

[edit] T

Taean-Chingdao (South Korea)
TEFKROS (Cyprus)
Thailand Domestic
TM-1 (Taiwan)
TURMEOS-1 (Turkey Marmora Aegean Optic System) - connects Izmir to Istanbul

[edit] U

[edit] 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)