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is targeted to be ready for service in Q4 2029. About EXA Infrastructure
EXA Infrastructure is an award-winning portfolio company of I Squared Capital and one of the largest dedicated digital infrastructure platforms throughout Europe, connecting North America and Asia via the Middle East. With over 20 years of experience in building resilient networks, EXA Infrastructure provides the critical modern infrastructure and unrivalled engineering expertise that serves as the backbone for digital and economic growth. This includes mission-critical networks for governments and enterprises, hyperscale infrastructure for the world’s most innovative and influential businesses, and ultra-low latency, high-bandwidth networks for financial, gaming and broadcast services. Media contact exa@babelpr.com View source
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EXA Announces Ninth Transatlantic Cable, EXA Meridian
EXA Announces Ninth Transatlantic Cable, EXA Meridian https://subtelforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/exa-meridian-cable-loading-istock-2287319474-400x266.jpg EXA Infrastructure Press Release
September 16, 2026 EXA Infrastructure announces EXA Meridian, its ninth transatlantic cable First transatlantic cable built by a single operator in a decade expands EXA Infrastructure’s transatlantic core as demand for fibre-pair capacity accelerates London, UK – 16th September 2026 – EXA Infrastructure, one of the largest dedicated digital infrastructure platforms throughout Europe, today announced the launch of EXA Meridian, a new 6,552 km transatlantic subsea cable between New Jersey, U.S., and Brean, UK. Scheduled to be ready for service in 2029, EXA Meridian will become the ninth transatlantic cable in EXA Infrastructure’s portfolio, adding significant new capacity and route diversity between North America and Europe, two of the world’s largest digital markets. It will also be the first transatlantic cable built by a single operator in a decade.
Demand for transatlantic infrastructure is growing as AI, cloud, and distributed data centre architectures generate more traffic between North America and Europe. At the same time, the largest capacity buyers are increasingly procuring spectrum and complete fibre pairs rather than individual wavelengths. EXA Meridian is purpose-built for this market shift. Designed with 24 fibre pairs, EXA Meridian delivers over 500 Tbps of scalable, long-term capacity for Hyperscalers, Neoclouds, financial institutions, government and research organisations.
The project has now reached Contract in Force (CIF) with subsea telecommunications specialist Xtera, marking a significant milestone in its development. The agreement follows extensive planning and early engagement with the supply chain, drawing on EXA Infrastructure’s team experience in delivering complex subsea systems. Xtera will act as a key supplier to the project, which is being led and delivered by EXA Infrastructure, a leader in delivery of wholesale transatlantic capacity.
Unlike a standalone subsea cable, EXA Meridian will connect directly into EXA Infrastructure’s existing owned network. A new cable landing station in Brean will connect the system through diverse terrestrial routes to Slough and EXA Infrastructure’s pan-European backbone. This integration into the wider platform will give customers an enhanced network mesh with multiple options for moving large volumes of data between North America and European regions, with greater choice over routes, resilience, and geographic diversity.
“Demand across the Atlantic is changing quickly. The largest customers are increasingly planning in spectrum and fibre pairs, and the capacity they will need towards the end of the decade has to be built now,” said Jim Fagan, CEO at EXA Infrastructure. “With a Ready For Service (RFS) date set for 2029, EXA Meridian will be the only cable with sufficient capacity to satisfy these large-scale demands.
“We have consistently committed to investing to meet strong demand. That means understanding where the market is going, securing the capital to act early and having the experience to execute when the opportunity arrives.
By integrating EXA Meridian directly into infrastructure that we own and operate across Europe, we can give customers greater route choice, resilience and accountability. It demonstrates the discipline behind our investment strategy and our confidence in continuing to build as commercial demand requires.”
EXA Meridian is already supported by significant anchor customer commitments, including leading Neocloud and Hyperscale players, providing strong commercial backing for the investment alongside tier-one suppliers secured to support project delivery. The system [...] | 4 |
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ESA Funds Automated Cable Backup Project
ESA Funds Automated Cable Backup Project
https://subtelforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/istock-2167849497-cableshield-400x266.jpg Publication Staff, Advanced Television
September 15, 2026
The European Space Agency has selected multi-orbit satellite operations specialist neXat to lead CableShield, a €1.5 million project intended to automate backup connectivity when submarine fiber routes fail. The project brings neXat together with Telesat and Colt Technology Services Belgium. Their demonstration will monitor for cable failures, then transfer selected traffic to satellite links automatically. ESA is funding the work through its Space Systems for Safety and Security initiative within the Advanced Research in Telecommunications Systems program.
CableShield is designed as an orchestration layer across separate communications domains instead of a single-vendor backup network. Its architecture links detection and decision functions with terrestrial-network controls and satellite-network controls. Those layers will communicate through application programming interfaces from ESA's Pooling and Sharing Interface Definitions work, allowing multi-vendor and multi-orbit satellite systems to exchange operational data, request capacity and manage shared resources as one service environment. When a fault occurs, the platform is expected to select available satellite resources and reroute a controllable, scalable portion of affected traffic with defined routing and prioritization.
For submarine cable owners and network operators, the project addresses the difficult interval between a fault and physical restoration. Satellite capacity cannot replace the full throughput of a major fiber system, but automated allocation and traffic prioritization could preserve selected critical services while repair work proceeds. The multi-provider pooling approach also tests whether operators can obtain resilient capacity across satellite fleets without building a separate manual process for every provider. Colt supplies the terrestrial-network perspective, while Telesat brings the satellite-operator role to the field demonstration.
The current award begins an 18-month effort devoted to development and validation, not an immediate commercial deployment. The partners must still integrate the detection, control and traffic-shifting functions and then prove them under field conditions. neXat aims to offer the backup service commercially in 2028, timed to Telesat's planned Lightspeed service entry. The demonstration and its validation results are therefore the next confirmed milestones for determining whether CableShield can progress from an ESA-backed resilience project into an operational continuity option for submarine cable networks.
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NT Secures USTDA Grant for Thailand-US Cable Study
NT Secures USTDA Grant for Thailand-US Cable Study
https://subtelforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/nt-ustda-thailand-us-cable-study-400x266.jpg NT Staff, National Telecom
September 14, 2026
National Telecom (NT) has signed a grant agreement with the U.S. Trade and Development Agency (USTDA) to assess the feasibility of a new Thailand-US submarine cable system. The Thai operator announced the agreement on September 14, with the proposed system identified as Thailand-US, or THUS.
The USTDA-funded study will help NT evaluate a replacement for existing submarine cable connectivity from Thailand to the United States that is approaching the end of its service life. Its findings will support investment decisions on the new system's budget, cable route and investment structure.
The proposed trans-Pacific system would connect Thailand with the United States through five other Southeast Asian countries: Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Vietnam. NT describes the project as strategically important to Thailand's digital infrastructure and its position as a regional hub for international connectivity.
NT links the proposed investment to rapidly growing demand for interregional bandwidth, including demand associated with data center construction in Thailand and neighboring markets. The operator says the system would strengthen regional connections to the United States and support the infrastructure needed for expanding digital services.
NT has selected U.S.-based APTelecom to conduct the feasibility study. The company will undertake the assessment across the project's dimensions, providing information for NT to evaluate the proposed cable before making investment decisions. The announcement identifies the study contractor but does not announce a cable supply or installation contract.
The grant agreement was signed by NT's managing director and USTDA Deputy Director and Chief Operating Officer Thomas R. Hardy. Thailand's minister of digital economy and society presided over the signing at NT headquarters. The agreement establishes support for project assessment rather than announcing construction of the cable.
NT places the initiative within its wider responsibility to develop and manage Thailand's telecommunications and digital infrastructure. It cites growing data requirements from cloud services, data centers, artificial intelligence and other digital services. The next stated step is the feasibility assessment; the announcement does not specify a ready-for-service date.
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MDM Details Narwhal 1 and 2 Transatlantic Cable Plans
MDM Details Narwhal 1 and 2 Transatlantic Cable Plans
https://subtelforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/mdm-narwhal-route-map-400x266.jpg MDM Press Release
September 14, 2026
MDM is pleased to announce two new transatlantic cable systems, Narwhal 1 and Narwhal 2, between Ireland and the US. Narwhal 1 will run from the existing cable landing station in Galway, Ireland to Long Island (US). Narwhal 2 will run from a new cable landing station in the South of Ireland to New Jersey.
The two new cables will interconnect with existing cable systems under development in Ireland, including the Pisces System from Galway to Spain, France and Portugal, a new cable system from Galway to Norway, which is under development (MDM and industry partners), and multiple other Ireland-to-UK systems, providing onward connectivity from Ireland directly to Europe and to the UK.
MDM is currently working on the permit applications for the systems and marine survey procurement is underway. The provisional Ready for Service date for Narwhal 1 is Q3 2029 and Narwhal 2 will follow in 2030.
The systems are being funded via private equity and industry partner involvement.
MDM, established in 1990, specializes in the development, build and operation of sub-sea cable systems. The Narwhal 1 and Narwhal 2 cable systems represent an investment of $500M. Director and Co-founder Jim McMahon explains that demand for transatlantic connectivity is forecast to increase significantly over the next 5 years. MDM, through a combination of its extensive in-house capabilities and its existing landing station infrastructure, is uniquely placed to fast-track these exciting projects.
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Press release supplied directly by MDM on September 14, 2026.
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Syria, Cyprus Sign Ebla Cable Agreement
Syria, Cyprus Sign Ebla Cable Agreement
https://subtelforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/ebla-istock-1287114171-400x266.jpg Nawal Jeles, SANA
September 13, 2026
Syria’s Ministry of Communications and Information Technology says an agreement has been signed to establish the Ebla submarine cable. The parties are Syria’s state communications operator, Cyprus carrier Cyta and US-based UNIFI Communications. The pact moves the project into implementation and gives it a defined route between Tartous and Cyprus’s TATCYNOS cable station, where Cyta’s network will provide onward connections to Europe and other global destinations. It is a distinct system from the UGARIT 2 agreement reported in August, so the September agreement represents a separate infrastructure program rather than a repeated milestone.
Ebla is designed with 24 optical-fiber pairs and an initial capacity of 31 terabits per second, expandable to 370 Tbps. The ministry expects the system to replace AUGER, the country’s direct Cyprus link that entered service in 1995 and now provides about 2 Tbps after upgrades completed in 2025. That capacity step, combined with a modern cable design, would materially expand Syria’s international bandwidth and create more room for cloud services, video communications, data hosting and digital-government traffic.
The announcement also assigns work to named suppliers. Marine survey activity is underway on the Tartous-Cyprus route; NSW, a Prysmian subsidiary, is responsible for marine cable works, Elettra will handle installation and Nokia will provide transmission equipment. Syria says Ebla will connect with the planned SilkLink open-access terrestrial network, which is intended to distribute international capacity among cities, data centers, licensed operators and border crossings. A separate planned Medusa landing station would add another Mediterranean route.
For cable owners and operators, Ebla’s significance lies in route diversity as much as headline capacity. A new direct system through Cyprus could provide alternative paths during outages, strengthen competition for international capacity and broaden access between Syria, Europe, the Gulf and Asia. Installation, testing and trial operations are scheduled before an early-2028 service target, but the ministry says completion remains subject to licensing, marine conditions and vessel availability. Those dependencies make the active survey and later installation milestones the next indicators of progress.
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Singtel, Gulf Back Thailand-Singapore Cable
Singtel, Gulf Back Thailand-Singapore Cable
https://subtelforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/singtel-vts-istock-2280002117-400x266.jpg Publication Staff, Singtel
September 10, 2026
Gulf Development and Singtel Group have formed a strategic partnership to develop and invest in new submarine cable connectivity between Thailand and Singapore. The first initiative will be participation in the Vietnam-Thailand-Singapore Cable System, or VTS, which the companies described as a new subsea link intended to strengthen Thailand's connection to Singapore. The announcement places a specific cable project at the center of a broader digital-infrastructure partnership between the Thai infrastructure group and the Singapore telecom operator.
Under the plan, Gulf will contribute infrastructure-development experience and its expanding digital-business portfolio, while Singtel will bring submarine-cable infrastructure and services expertise. Singtel Singapore and Thai associate AIS are expected to use their market positions, connectivity capabilities and customer reach to support VTS development and commercialization. The release does not disclose route length, landing points, design capacity or a system supplier, but says capital requirements will be spread over multiple years. It also leaves open the possibility of later investment in terrestrial links and other subsea systems.
The commercial rationale is rising demand from cloud, AI, data-center and digital-service customers across Southeast Asia. Thailand is attracting investment in data centers, cloud services and digital platforms, creating a need for greater international connectivity. For Singapore, another link with Thailand would reinforce its role as a regional connectivity gateway and give enterprises, cloud providers, hyperscalers and digital platforms another path between two important digital markets. That route-diversity argument, rather than a disclosed capacity figure, is the clearest immediate industry significance of the planned system.
VTS is expected to be operational by 2030. That date is an operating target, not a notice that construction has started: the announcement identifies participation, development and commercialization roles but does not report a supplier award, marine survey, permit, manufacturing milestone or installation schedule. The next confirmed work is the partners' multi-year development and investment program. Until those execution details are announced, VTS remains a planned system backed by a named investment partnership rather than a construction-stage project.
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LuLu Cable System Launches on Kenya’s Coast
LuLu Cable System Launches on Kenya’s Coast
https://subtelforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/lulu-kenya-coast-istock-1455430684-400x266.jpg African Media Agency, African Newspage
September 9, 2026
LuLu, a planned coastal submarine cable system for Kenya, was announced at ITW Africa 2026 as a route along the country’s Indian Ocean shoreline. The system is designed to cover about 500km between Mombasa and Lamu, with five landing points identified along the corridor: Mombasa, Vipingo Special Economic Zone, Kilifi, Malindi and Lamu.
The project is being advanced by INDOI Ltd. (IOX), Blue Trade Investments Limited, ARISE IIP, AfriTrade Consulting Group and Kingdom Bank. INDOI is identified as the developer, owner and commercial operator, while Blue Trade is listed as the Kenyan landing party, regulatory interface and delivery partner. Technically, LuLu is planned as a dual-path system, pairing a subsea route with a protected terrestrial path. It is expected to use DWDM technology in the 1550nm window, with 144 fibre pairs, design capacity of up to 60 Tbps per fibre pair and a planned 25-year operating life. Centralized network management is also specified, while the parallel land route is intended to help maintain availability if one path is disrupted.
For Kenya and East Africa, the project would add coastal diversity beyond the main international cable concentration at Mombasa while extending high-capacity infrastructure toward emerging industrial and logistics locations. The Vipingo SEZ landing is positioned to support digital infrastructure within the zone, including data centre, cloud, business process outsourcing, financial technology, cybersecurity and smart manufacturing use cases. The source also links the system to the wider LAPSSET corridor, indicating a role in connecting coastal development areas as well as international operators and enterprise users.
The confirmed status is that LuLu has been announced and its route, partners and intended technical architecture have been disclosed. The next stated milestone is progression toward readiness for service in Q2 2028, and that RFS target is subject to contract execution. Until those contracts are completed, the date should be treated as a target rather than a committed in-service date. The release does not name a system supplier, construction start, route-survey schedule or completed contracts, making those the key markers to watch as the consortium moves from announcement into execution.
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Fitburg Trial Opens Over Baltic Cable Damage
Fitburg Trial Opens Over Baltic Cable Damage
https://subtelforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/fitburg-baltic-cargo-ship-2249632518-400x266.jpg AFP, ET Telecom
September 8, 2026
A Russian captain and an Azerbaijani bosun from the cargo ship Fitburg went on trial in Helsinki District Court on September 8 over alleged damage to two subsea telecommunications cables linking Finland and Estonia. AFP, reporting through ET Telecom, said prosecutors charged the two seafarers with aggravated criminal mischief and aggravated interference with telecommunications. Both defendants deny the charges. Prosecutors are seeking prison terms of at least two years and six months.
The case centers on the 132-meter Fitburg, which was sailing from Russia to Israel under the flag of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines when Finnish authorities stopped it on December 31, 2025. Prosecutors allege the vessel dragged a damaged anchor for at least 130 kilometers across the Gulf of Finland seabed, cutting two telecom cables and attempting to damage eight additional subsea connections. They say the incident caused significant immediate damage and created a serious risk for telecommunications, electricity and gas networks in Finland.
Jurisdiction is a central issue because prosecutors say most of the alleged dragging occurred in Estonia's exclusive economic zone, although some damage was sustained in Finnish territorial waters. The defendants argue that Finland lacks authority to hear the case because the cables were damaged outside Finnish territory. That question also arose in the separate Eagle S cable-damage prosecution: Helsinki District Court dismissed that case on jurisdictional grounds in 2025, before the Helsinki Court of Appeal overturned the ruling in August 2026 and returned it to the district court.
For submarine cable owners and operators, the Fitburg proceedings are a practical test of how national courts address alleged vessel activity affecting cross-border infrastructure beyond territorial waters. The prosecution's case focuses not only on the two damaged telecom cables but also on the claimed risk to eight other subsea connections and to Finland's wider critical-network environment. Two other officers were investigated but were not charged. The Fitburg trial is now underway, and the next confirmed step is the court's consideration of the evidence and competing jurisdiction arguments. The cited report did not provide a verdict date.
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Bangladesh Plans Private Subsea Cable Market Opening
Bangladesh Plans Private Subsea Cable Market Opening
https://subtelforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/bangladesh-cable-market-istock-1415445439-400x266.jpg Ismail Hossain, The Financial Express
September 7, 2026
Bangladesh is preparing regulatory amendments that would open licensing for new submarine cable systems to more private and international investment, according to a September 7 report by The Financial Express. The proposed framework would permit international-local partnerships and could move the country beyond a predominantly state-led connectivity model. Rehan Asif Asad, adviser to the prime minister for ICT, telecommunications, science and technology, said he wants the amended rules finalized within four weeks. The government has not yet enacted the changes, making that four-week target the next stated policy milestone.
The proposal arrives while Bangladesh's first major private cable initiative remains delayed. Summit Communications, CdNet Communications and Metacore Subcom received submarine cable licenses in 2022 and later combined their plans through the Bangladesh Private Cable System consortium. BPCS is planning at least 45 Tbps of capacity through a branch landing at Cox's Bazar. The Financial Express reported that roughly US$53 million had been invested by April, but outstanding regulatory approvals and vessel clearances continue to hold up deployment. That gap between licensing and construction gives the planned reform an immediate practical test.
Bangladesh currently receives state-operated submarine connectivity through SEA-ME-WE-4 and SEA-ME-WE-5, both managed by Bangladesh Submarine Cables PLC. SEA-ME-WE-6 is expected to add approximately 30 Tbps when it enters service, while Asad said national demand could rise beyond 50 Tbps by 2030 as artificial intelligence, cloud services and data-center investment expand. Metacore Subcom chief executive Mohammad Aminul Hakim argued that additional competition could lower bandwidth prices and improve service quality. Those expected benefits remain industry projections rather than confirmed outcomes of the proposed policy.
For cable owners and investors, the change could create new routes into a market seeking more international capacity, redundancy and landing diversity, but implementation will matter as much as market access. The government must translate the announced direction into workable licensing amendments and predictable deployment approvals. Its immediate commitment is to finalize the framework within four weeks. Separately, BPCS still requires resolution of its cable-laying vessel clearances before construction can advance, so the consortium's progress will provide an early measure of whether the opening produces deployable infrastructure rather than licenses alone.
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Vocus ASC Fault Disrupts Australia-Singapore Traffic
Vocus ASC Fault Disrupts Australia-Singapore Traffic
https://subtelforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/vocus-asc-cable-fault-istock-2204965084-400x266.jpg Matthew Giannelis, Tech Business News
September 6, 2026
Vocus has confirmed a fault on its Australia-Singapore Cable, disrupting international internet and transmission services between Australia and Singapore and requiring affected traffic to be moved onto alternate routes. The incident was first disclosed on 4 September, when Vocus said affected wavelength and Ethernet products were down while internet traffic shifted onto backup paths. As of 6 September, the incident remained active, with Vocus confirming the fault is in Indonesian waters between Anyer and Singapore.
The ASC entered service in September 2018 and was designed, built, and is solely operated by Vocus. The system links Perth and Singapore while also connecting Christmas Island and Indonesia, and is marketed as a direct high-capacity route into Asia-Pacific with onward alternatives to Europe and the United States. Vocus provides wholesale and international links for carriers, resellers, and service providers, so disruption may affect multiple downstream networks where services depend on the ASC or related transit arrangements.
The outage is significant because the ASC is one of Vocus’s key international routes between Western Australia and Singapore, a major regional hub for Australian business, hosting, cloud, and Asia-Pacific connectivity requirements. The source article also reported traceroute observations from Melbourne showing traffic to Singapore travelling via Sydney, San Jose, Tokyo, and Hong Kong, with unusually high round-trip latency. That routing evidence is the article author’s inference, not a Vocus confirmation; the source notes the cable fault does not conclusively prove every poor Melbourne-to-Singapore route was caused by this outage, but it provides a credible explanation for unusually long contingency paths.
Vocus has completed testing from its Perth Cable Landing Station and said it has established the precise location of the fault. The company previously said remote analysis had refined the break location and that a marine repair team had been engaged, and its latest update stated that Vocus is working with its marine repair partner on restoration planning. Emergency cable testing from Perth temporarily affected services on Christmas Island during the testing window. No restoration estimate has been provided, and no confirmed cause, repair date, repair vessel, or quantified active capacity impact has been announced.
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