Deep Blue Cable Subsea Network
Length: 12,000km
Planned Capacity: Eight fibre pairs with an initial capacity of 6Tbps, and ultimate capacity of approximately 20Tbps per fibre pair
Locations connected: British Virgin Islands, the Cayman Islands, Colombia, Curaçao, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, Panama, Puerto Rico, Trinidad & Tobago, Turks & Caicos Islands, and dual diverse landings in the US, on the Gulf Coast of Florida
Companies involved: Deep Blue Cable (developer, owner and operator), TE SubCom (cable builder), Digicel (equity partner and anchor tenant)
Projected ready for service: Q2 2020
Deep Blue Cable’s project is an attempt to overcome C&W’s monopoly in the Caribbean by offering an alternative route running between the islands and the US. A route survey is expected to take place in Q1 2018, with manufacturing expected to take place into 2019, and the cable due to go live in Q2 2020.
Quintillion
Length: 2,250km
Capacity: 100Gbps
Locations: Alaskan coastal communities of Utqiagvik, Wainwright, Point Hope, Nome and Kotzebue.
Companies involved: Quintillion, Alcatel Submarine Networks
Ready for service: Stage 1: December 2017
The first stage of Quintillion’s innovative arctic cable went live in December 2017, connecting remote parts of Alaska through a combination of subsea and terrestrial fibre. Eventually, Quintillion plans to extend its cable west to Tokyo and east to London.
Monet
Length: 10,556km
Capacity: 64Tbps
Locations: Boca Raton, Florida; Fortaleza and Praia Grande, Brazil.
Companies involved: Algar Telecom, Angola Cables, Antel, Google, TE SubCom
Ready for service: December 2017
Commercial traffic is shortly set to go live on the low-latency 10,556km Monet submarine cable connecting Florida to Brazil. The Monet cable has been built using SubCom’s Open Cables concept, providing the consortium with choice and flexibility in the selection of line cards.
Hawaiki
Length: 15,000km
Capacity: 43.8Tbps
Locations: Sydney, Auckland, American Samoa, Oahu, Pacific City
Companies involved: Hawaiki, TE Subcom, Equinix, AWS
Hawaiki is the new carrier-neutral submarine cable linking Australia and New Zealand to Hawaii and mainland United States. The cable has also some industry heavyweights involved in its planning, including Equinix, which will be the landing point on the Australian side, and AWS which has purchased capacity in Hawaiki Submarine Cable.
