Subsea Cables & Internet Infrastructure

LS1/Capetown CT1; 10G; Equiano; $6500 MRC.  Marseille/Singapore; Peace; $20K per month; 1 year.  Marseille/Singapore; AAE1; $24K a month; 2 year.  Singapore/Tokyo; ADC; $15K on a 3 year.  Mombasa/Marseille; $45K MRC; 1 year.  10x or more 100G European waves; 925€ per wave; 3 years.  Lagos/LS1; $20K; 2 years.  NY4 Secaucus Equinix/Ashburn Equinix; $1300; 3 years.  Ashburn Equinix/Telehouse 2 Paris; Dunant; $5250; 3 year.  Dallas Equinix/Ashburn Equinix; $2400; 3 year. 

The wholesale telecom community eagerly anticipates the lighting of the ADC system. This 8 fibre pair cable has an intitial design capacity of 180 Tbps. It will serve China, Japan, Singapore, Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam. NEC is building the cable. Consortium members include China Unicom, China Telecom, Singtel, Softbank, Tata, and one of the two Vietnam operator incumbents.  My sources tell me the current RFS estimate is January, 2025.  Good Singapore/Tokyo pricing available. Figure as low as $15K per monthon long term contracts.  SJC and SJC2 are relatively good complements as they do not share cable landing stations with ADC.  HK-SG 35.5 ms RTD. SG-TOKYO 66.5 ms RTD.  TOKYO-HK 44.5 ms RTD.  Singapore Landing Station: Tuas. Tokyo Landing Station: Maruyama. 

Equiano is a Google cable. A 12 fibre pair spatial division multiplexing system designed to do at least 12 Tbps per pair. This cable is a must-have for African ISPs as it connects the three key telecom hubs of Portugal (Lisbon Equinix (LS1)), Nigeria (the Open Access Data Center (OADC) in Lagos), and South Africa (Capetown Teraco (CT1) in South Africa), has massive capacity and is vastly more reliable than older African cables.  Equiano not only connects the key telecom hubs essential to West Africa's Internet, but is also buried two meters deep and avoids the dangerous undersea areas like the Congo canyon and Le Trou Sans Fin that have caused many subsea outages. Le Trou experienced a debris slide this Spring that caused 4 African cables (SAT3, Mainone, WACS, and ACE) to be severed in the Ivory Coast's territorial waters. Equiano saved West Africa's Internet from a complete subsequent meltdown as its capacity was used to reroute traffic to Lisbon or South Africa. Equiano&#

Marseille/Singapore; AAE1 cable; 10G wavelength; $3,200 MRC; 2 year term.  London/Singapore Overland; SG/HK/China/Kazakhstan/Bellarus/Poland/Germany/London;  full GigE; $8,000 MRC; 185 ms RTD.  LD4 Equinix/AM5 Amsterdam; Scylla Cable; 100G Wave; 1,100€ MRC; low latency path; 3 year term.  Milano/Palermo; 100G Wave; 2,000€ MRC; 3 year term.  Lisbon Equinix/Capetown Teraco; Equiano Cable; 100G Wave; $32K MRC; 3 years.  CLS Japan/CLS Oregon; Faster Cable; 100G Wave; $13,500 MRC; 1 year term.  Ashburn Equinix/Telehouse 2 Paris; 100G Wave; Dunant Cable; $5750 MRC; 3 year term.  Dallas Equinix/Ashburn Equinix; 100G Wave; $2,400 MRC; 3 year term.  Ashburn Equinix/Secaucus Equinix; 100G Wave; $1,900 MRC; 3 year term.  Ashburn Equinix/San Jose Equinix; 100G Wave; $2,950 MRC; 3 year term.  Ashburn Equinix/Miami M1 Equinix; 100G Wave; $1,950 MRC; 3 year term.  Secaucus Equinix/Coresite LA2; 100G Wave; $3,950; 3 year term. 

If you can take it at the Chikura and Bandon CLS, MRC is $13.5K per 100G. From TY4 to 1 Wilshire pricing is $17.5K MRC. Good deal.