Medusa reaches Aqaba through Coral Bridge—but the route still needs a handoff
Aqaba Digital Hub will reach the Medusa network through the Coral Bridge. The commercial value depends on the unannounced route, handoffs and service terms.
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Submarine Cables
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Petal puts multi-core fibre on the transatlantic timetable
Meta's Petal targets 1 Pbps between the US and France in 2029. The important shift is not the headline number, but multi-core fibre moving into a commercial cable.
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EXA Meridian and the return of operator-built transatlantic capacity
EXA Meridian will put 24 fibre pairs and more than 500 Tbps on a New Jersey–UK route in Q4 2029. The important shift is who is buying the capacity.
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The neocloud belt goes east, and the bandwidth bill lands here
Firebird opens in Armenia. HUMAIN switches on in Saudi Arabia. Nebius doubles down in Israel. The AI campuses are landing between Yerevan and Riyadh, and the question is who carries their traffic to Frankfurt.
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Egypt's eastern cable corridor is becoming a carrier route
Telecom Egypt's 200-kilometre Sharm El Sheikh–Taba cable will add a 5-Pbps design path to a landing point already tied to Aqaba. The commercial model now matters.
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Trans-Caspian cable: the terrestrial test starts now
The first fiber across the Caspian is now on the seabed. Its value for Europe and the Balkans will depend on terrestrial diversity, capacity disclosure, and a credible RFS.
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The Black Sea cable moves from political commitment to seabed data
The Georgia–Romania Black Sea interconnector has entered marine-survey preparation. Its fiber leg could reshape route diversity, but the telecom product is still undefined.
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ITU's submarine cable resilience report puts numbers on a problem the industry already knew about
The ITU-ICPC Advisory Body closed two years of work with data: repair response time more than doubled since 2012, and 80%+ of faults are still human-caused.
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Cable security goes regulatory: Washington and Brussels pick different levers in the same week
In four days, the FCC extended US cable licensing to onshore SLTE and the European Commission funded two Regional Hubs and a €40M repair call. One threat, two logics.
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GreenMed reaches Jordan: a new Mediterranean–IMEC corridor takes shape
Sparkle's MoU with NaiTel and iLevant to extend the GreenMed system into Jordan ties an EU-funded subsea corridor directly into the India–Middle East–Europe Economic Corridor. For SEE carriers, this changes how Europe–Asia traffic will be priced and routed by the late 2020s.
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