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Undersea fiber-optic cables that carry international internet and telecom traffic, including their routing, capacity upgrades, and security risks.
Orange and Equitix have formed a joint venture with MDM to build Pisces, a 3,125km subsea cable linking Ireland to France, Spain and Portugal. EU money backs the 16-fiber-pair system, expected in 2028, but no total cost was reported.
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Google paid two to three times the roughly 6 million euro going rate for backup fiber across Turkey, according to a person familiar with the deal. Most Europe-Asia cloud traffic still crosses the contested Red Sea strait, so the premium buys a route for the day a cable breaks.
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Petal keeps Anjana's 24 fiber pairs and puts two cores in every fiber, so throughput per pair stays near 20.8 Tbps and each of roughly a hundred repeaters has to amplify 96 cores in one body.
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The US Trade and Development Agency agreed on Sept. 14 to fund a feasibility study for a trans-Pacific cable routed clear of the South China Sea. National Telecom in Bangkok has to assemble the consortium that pays for it.
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Project Waterworth is designed to run past 50,000 kilometres across five continents, and the Aurora transatlantic system is due in service in 2028 at about 497 terabits per second. The cost is undisclosed.
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The cable is AWS's project, but the landing station and backhaul at Ocean Shores belong to Toptana, a Quinault Indian Nation company that aimed to be live in 2025 and is only now breaking ground. Nothing carries traffic until 2029.
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