Submarine Cable Network Systems

Submarine networks carry more than 95 percent of the world s intercontinental electronic communications traffic.
Submarine cable network systems. Southern cross cable network fiji new zealand australia usa 640gbps 10gbps x 16wl x 4fp 29 400km 7 600m nov. The skagen fiber west is a 170km submarine cable connecting norway larvik and denmark hirtshals. 01 china us cable network. The online inventory of submarine cable systems.
Submarine cable is highway for data transmission. A submarine communications cable is a cable laid on the sea bed between land based stations to carry telecommunication signals across stretches of ocean and sea. The first submarine communications cables laid beginning in the 1850s carried telegraphy traffic establishing the first instant telecommunications links between continents such as the first transatlantic telegraph cable which became. Telegeography s free interactive submarine cable map is based on our authoritative global bandwidth research and depicts active and planned submarine cable systems and their landing stations.
Loic lefur in undersea fiber communication systems second edition 2016. The skagen fiber cable system consists of 48 fiber pairs provides over 1920 tbps of system capacity and a designed round trip delay rtd of approximately 1 7 ms between the larvik cable landing stations in norway and hirtshals cable landing station in denmark. Submarine cables are critical infrastructure which carries more than 10 trillion worth transactions every day. Other systems such as domestic cables or single user systems are usually somewhat simpler though their deployment will typically go through a similar process and ordeals as the large systems.
A submarine cable network is an integrated system of cables collectively providing data transfer from one land based location to another. A submarine cable is a communications cable laid on or below the floor of the ocean or other body of water. The adc cable system will feature eight fiber pairs and is designed to carry more than 140 tbps of traffic enabling high capacity transmission of data across the east and. The knot terrestrial cable system spans over 1 400km providing capacity of 12 8 tbps and beyond with lowest latency connectivity to the mena region.
The falcon cable system has an initial design capacity of 2 56 tbps was ready for service in september 2006. The kalaam network optical transit knot is a new fiber optic terrestrial international cable system that enhances regional and international connectivity in the middle east and north africa mena. The flag alcatel lucent optical network falcon submarine cable system is a 11859km submarine cable system connecting india sri lanka maldives oman kuwait bahrain qatar saudi arabia iraq yemen sudan and egypt. 00 north asia cable system nacs hong kong taiwan japan 2 52tbps 10gbps x 42wl x 6fp 3 600km may 01 japan us cable network japan usa mainland 640gbps 10gbps x 16wl x 4fp 22 000km 4 850m jul.
Submarine networking has recently seen several technological evolution.