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  • Pulse Of The Subsea Cable Market: Capacity Shortages Dominate The Pacific

    Pulse Of The Subsea Cable Market: Capacity Shortages Dominate The Pacific

    Key Observations Lots of Faster cable capacity available. Third fastest Japan/US sysrem. TY4/1 Wilshire or CLS/DC combinations available. Figure $13.5 MRC to $17.5K MRC depending on exact end points on a 1 year contract.  Chinese carriers dominate AAE1 and they report no capacity left. Other Asian carriers were reselling Chinese capacity. Hence their cupboards are…

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  • Pacific Subsea Cable Capacity Offers: Jupiter & Faster

    Pacific Subsea Cable Capacity Offers: Jupiter & Faster

    Cables: Jupiter or Faster.Term: 1 Year. A point: TY4 data centre, Tokyo.  Z point: Coresite, 1 Wilshire LA.  MRC: $18.5K. NRC: $15K. Customer responsible for cross connects.  Remarks:  1. Jupiter and Faster are the second and third lowest latency cables linking Tokyo and LA, respectively. Unity holds the first position.  2. CLS to CLS, CLS…

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  • The New Subsea Cables RFS 2025 Series: Andromeda

    The New Subsea Cables RFS 2025 Series: Andromeda

    The Andromeda cable will link Greece, Cyprus, and Israel with cable landing stations at Korakia, Greece, and Tirat Carmel, Israel. The plan is to extend the subsea cable across Israel to the important Aqaba, Jordan, and Haqi, Saudi Arabia data centers. Apparently via the existing oil pipeline that transports oil from the Red Sea to…

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  • The New Subsea Cables RFS 2025 Series: Asia Link Cable (ALC)

    The New Subsea Cables RFS 2025 Series: Asia Link Cable (ALC)

    Type of Cable System: Latest Generation Coherent Optics.  Open Cable System: Yes, and possibly the first for Southeast Asia. Consortium Members: China Telecom, Singtel, Globe Telecom (Philippines), DITO (Philippines), Singtel, Malaysia Telecom, Global Transit, and UNN (Brunei). Construction Status: On schedule. Number of Fibre Pairs: 8. Estimated RFS: 3Q2025.Day One Aggregate Throughput: 144 Tbps. Salient Features: Three digit terabit cable…

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  • The New Subsea Cable RFS 2025 Series: Airraq

    The New Subsea Cable RFS 2025 Series: Airraq

    Airraq is a new subsea cable connecting important Alaskan Coast communities. Not surprisingly, most remote, sparsely populated areas in the US are bandwidth famished. Because Alaska shares no border with the Continental US, subsea cables are used to connect it to the lower 48 US states with satellite and microwave back haul the usual Last…

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