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African Subsea Cable Trends: Emerging Capacity Crunch & The Red Sea

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- 2Africa more expensive than Equiano. The 100G 2Africa pricing is $25K and above excluding tails. In contrast, Equiano 100G pricing Lagos/Lisbon is below $20K now. Similarly, Equiano 10G pricing gravitates around $5K versus $10K on the same route for 2Africa.   The reason for this disparity is that the 144 Tbps Equiano primarily serves South Africa, Portugal, and Nigeria. The 180 Tbps 2Africa serves over 30 countries and Facebook kept 4 of the 16 pairs for its internal traffic.  Another sign of the impending capacity crunch is the unwillingness of 2Africa consortium members to sell IRUs. An IRU is a long term capacity sale ranging from 10 years to life of system. Carriers will not sell IRUs if they expect future capacity shortages or think the probability is high. Many of these carriers have transit backbones that they must keep running smoothly.  What you should do? Stock up on Equiano and 2Africa waves and spectrum because prices will begin rising within 2 years. ...
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Google's Bosun Cable Update

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Google's Bosun cable will connect Christmas Island, located in the East Indian Ocean, to Darwin, Australia, site of a large military base with rotating contingents of Japanese and American soldiers. The project was announced near the end of 2024. At the time it struck me as a bit strange. Google's new cables across the Pacific will do a lot of island hopping. This allows the power to be boosted, the islands can serve as traffic switching centers if they are hosting multiple cables, and complete OEO regeneration can be done. Voltage drops as electricity flows through the copper or aluminum current conductor. So the advantage of powering a cable at intermediate points is clear. It enables higher end-to-end transmission throughput. A key aspect of Google's Pacific projects is better resiliency. The easiest way to do that is a put a small prefabricated modular CLS on an island and land multiple cables there. There Layer 3 switching can divert traffic in case a ca...
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10G Wavelength: 120 ms RTD Tokyo Equinix To CME Aurora Data Center

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A point: TY3. Z point: 2905 Diehl Road, Aurora Illinois. Service: 10G Wave (Layer 1). Subsea Cable: Topaz. MRC: $11,999. NRC: $1250 Term: 1 Year.
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Cost Effective/Low Latency Protect Path For Tokyo To CME Traffic

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Most financial traders rely on the PC-1 or Topaz subsea cables to move market data and orders between the Japanese Stock Exchange and the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. But all subsea cables eventually experience outages. Highly diverse, yet low latency protect path using new Juno network. Layer 10G pricing is great. A-end address: Tokyo Equinix TY3 Z-end address: CME Aurora data centre. Bandwidth: Linear 10G (unprotected). RTD: 122ms or lower. 12M Quote OTC: USD 5,000 MRC: USD 8,000 24M Quote OTC: USD 5,000 MRC: USD 7,800 36M Quote OTC: USD 5,000 MRC: USD 7,650
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Friday Specials - Pacific

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1. ASE; 100G Wave; Tokyo/Singapore; $19K MRC; 2 Years. 2. AAE1; 10G Wave; Marseille/Singapore; $3,500 MRC; 3 Years. 3. Juno; 100G Wave; Tokyo/LA; $16,461 MRC; 3 Years. 4. ADC; 100G Wave; HK/Singapore; $12.3K MRC; 3 Years. 5. Faster; 100G Wave; TY2/Coresite LA; $18.2k MRC; 3 Years.
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Peace Cable Offer: Marseille/Mombasa

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 Capacity: 100G (PEACE) A-End: Mombasa B-End: Marseilles Term: 24 Month MRC: $40,500 NRC: $ 15,000
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SubOptic 2025 Presentations: Wet Plant Design - Part 1

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Author: Dmitry Kovsh. Subcom employee. Presentation Available Upon Request. In his presentation Dmitry focused on designing wet plant for open cable systems. Wet plant is everything in the water up to the beach manhole. The main components are the fibre optic cable and optical amplifiers. I define an open cable system as one where capacity owners manage individually their capacity. This business model involves capacity allocation by fibre pair or a percentage of a fibre pair's spectrum. Big capacity owners own one or more fibre pairs. Smaller players own spectrum called either a quarter fibre pair or half fibre pair. As the name suggests, a quarter fibre pair means the owner has exclusive right to use 25% of the fibre pair's usable spectrum. Similarly for a half fibre pair. Spectrum ownership means the cable delivers usable spectrum on a fibre pair defined by upper and lower frequency limits. The spectrum lying in the frequency range belongs to the owner for the te...
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