Underappreciated Atlantic Cable Systems: Amitié & TGN Atlantic South

Atlantic Internet traffic tends to flow from Secaucus Equinix and Ashburn Equinix to Slough Equinix and Paris. Madrid and Portugal are becoming important as well. The most logical choices for Ashburn Equinix to Continental Europe waves are the Marea and Dunant Cables. These high capacity SDM systems provide welcomed physical diversity by bypassing the UK. But there is also strong demand between Secaucus and Slough Equinix. If you are a Speed Freak high frequency trader, then EXA'S Express is probably the way to go. But if you need something economical with reasonable diversity to most subsea cables and rock solid up time, then you must consider TATA's four fibre pair South Atlantic cable that lands in New Jersey and High Bridge. Pricing is competitive, but it is also diverse to the congested Bude, UK landing that at least nine cables call home. From what I can tell TGN back haul to Slough should have little overlap with the Bude cables, which generally traverse Bristol, Oxford,...