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SUBSEA COMMUNICATIONS BRINGING THE CLOUD TO THE WORLD Information delivered at the speed of light, deep beneath the oceans of the world: People everywhere want – and expect – the capability to send high-megabyte data quickly without interference. As the number of applications used and devices connected to the internet continues to multiply, hyper-scale cloud companies increasingly need flexible subsea cable systems that they can quickly scale to meet market demand, in a way that also aligns with long-term strategies to diversify and expand their networks. For more than five decades, TE subsea-communications engineers have developed the technology enabling our customers to operate high-bandwidth, high-capacity networks between and within continents and countries. With nearly 400 engineers, two manufacturing facilities, and a fleet of eight ships, we design, manufacture, install, and maintain the flexible end-to-end subsea solutions that form the backbone of the international communications network. Arafura Sea ARCTIC OCEAN Greenland Greenland Laptev Sea Sea SVALBARD Ban SVALBARD Kara Bay PRECISION ENGINEERING East Siberian Sea Beaufort Sea Sea Leicester, UK Barents IVALUK NETWORK Sea IVALUK NETWORK Norwegian Sea United States FAR ICE Russia Iceland DANICE BOTNIA Sweden Finland Faroe Is. Baltic Sea Russia IVALUK NETWORK North Norway GREENLAND CONNECT Canada Hudson Labrador Sea Gulf Of Alaska Bay Sea Estonia Bering TAMPNETT Sea ALASKA UNITED FIBER OPTIC EAST Latvia Sea NORTHSTAR FAR EAST Denmark Lithuania of ALASKA UNITED FIBER OPTIC WEST SEA LION AKORN Okhotsk ESAT 1 AVONMOUTH MARINE DEPOT PORTLAND MARINE DEPOT HEADQUARTERS and R&D WET & DRY PLANT MANUFACTURING Ireland Netherlands Belarus Avonmouth, UK Portland, OR Eatontown, NJ Newington, NH ESAT 2 Poland UK NEPTUNE Belgium HIBERNIA EXPRESS Germany HIBERNIA ATLANTIC Ukraine COGIM HIBERNIA ATLANTIC Slovenia Kazakhstan ATLANTIC CROSSING 1 Austria TAT-14 SUBSEA COMMUNICATIONS NETWORKS AEConnect Switzerland Hungary Moldova Mongolia HSCS France TGN NORTH Slovenia FLEET OPERATIONS CENTER Croatia Romania TGN SOUTH PACIFIC CROSSING 1 PACIFIC CROSSING 1 RSN Baltimore, MD ATLANTIC CROSSING 1 Montenegro TGN PACIFIC TGN PACIFIC BSFOCS YELLOW Serbia TPE HIBERNIA ITUR ATLANTIC Italy APOLLO Bulgaria Black Sea CHINA-US CHINA-US JONAH - CAUCASUS Caspian Uzbekistan MAREA MEDNAUTILUS Georgia TGN PACIFIC Sea TGN PACIFIC Macedonia Kyrgyzstan PACIFIC CROSSING 1 TGN PACIFIC CHINA-US TPC-5 FLAG ATLANTIC 1 Spain North SOUTHERN CROSS GLO-1 RJCN TGN WE Albania Azerbaijan Korea APOLLO Armenia TPC-5 TPC-5 ALEXANDRO Sea FLAG ATLANTIC 1 Greece FASTER FASTER Portugal MINERVA Turkey Turkmenistan Tajikistan of TAT-14 NCP NCP GLOBENET AZORES PALMYRA Japan United States ITUR China JAPAN-US GEMINI APOLLON South JAPAN-US North GLOBENET Korea China Japan CANUS-1 URARIT PACIFIC CROSSING 1 PACIFIC CROSSING 1 Tunisia CB-1 China Sea IMEWE CHINA-US CHINA-US MAC COLUMBUS III UNITY UNITY Mediterranean EGYPLI Iran Afghanistan Iraq PLCN PLCN Sea POLARIS POSEIDON IMEWE MAC TAICHUNG MARINE DEPOT HAWAIKI Morocco FEA CSNET SEAMEWE-3 Taichung Port, Taiwan BUSINESS OFFICE KUWAIT-IRAN SEA-US TRIBEN FLON Kuwait Pakistan TPE CHINA-USNCP JAPAN-US JAPAN-US PAC Madrid, Spain FEA FOG AAE-1 TE designs the subsea system, engineers the route, HONOLULU MARINE DEPOT TPC-5 EIG TGN GULF FALCON Nepal TPC-5 BP GOM TGN CHEVRON SEAMEWE-4 GBICS AAG FLORICO-2FLPRSAm-1MAC ST THOMAS-3PCCS FLST AMERICASAMERICAS II I GBICS Sand Island, Hawaii BERMUDATOR Egypt FALCON SOUTHERN CROSS Algeria Libya SEAMEWE-3 BBG Bhutan ASE ARCOS-1 SEACOM COLUMBUS II Qatar CHINA-US IMEWE TWA-1 Mexico Gulf AMX-1 ARCOS-1 QATAR-UAE Of MENA Saudi SAM-1 BDSN IMEWE SEAMEWE-5 UAE India NACS Mexico Arabia SEAMEWE-4 GOKI MAYA ALGECIRAS MARINE DEPOT Oman Arabian PACIFIC Cuba FALCON AAE-1 Sea EIG Myanmar Los Barrios (Cadiz), Spain FEA GBI SAS-1 MENA Caribbean EIG Laos OCEAN IMEWE CHINA-US ATLANTIC SEAMEWE-4 Sea Haiti Mauritania EIG PLCN CSRD SEAMEWE-3 AJC Jamaica TPC-3 EASSY VSNL-IA FALCON SEAMEWE-4 South APG OCEAN MENA Bay AAN Belize SEACOM FALCON ARCOS-1 TATA China CFX-1 Of AAG Chad Thailand Sea SAm-1 Cape Verde IMEWE Yemen SEAMEWE-3 Guatemala MONET Bengal GPT 1 Eritrea COAM APG Philippines GPT 2 TPC-5 Honduras SEAMEWE-4 AAE-1 Senegal AMX-1 FEA MAIN ONE M MAIN G G SEAMEWE-5 AAG AACE El Salvador FEA C LO- L A O E AAE-1 GLOBENET I SEAMEWE-3 Philippine PCCS N - SEAMEWE-5 1 Cambodia 1 Sudan Nicaragua O BBG SEAMEWE-4 Sea N SAm-1 Guinea-Bissau Burkina Faso SEACOM MCT Vietnam E Djibouti APCN HANTRU1 PAC AAE-1 Costa MAYA SAC/LAN Guinea Benin TGN-IAC2C Trinidad ADENJI SOUTHERN CROSS Rica TRINIDAD - AMERICAN SAMOA - HAWAII SAm-1 Nigeria CURACAO & Tobago GLOBENET Sierra Panama AMERICAS I Leone Cote Ethiopia Marshall Is. Togo Sri BBG AAE-1 Venezuela D'ivoire Central AMERICAS II DDA Lanka SJC A Liberia Micronesia K Ghana AAR-A African Republic manufactures the infrastructure, and installs and EASSY Guyana R BEST -A BIDB SEA-US Colombia ID Cameroon SEACOM J AAN FEA Suriname French N Guiana NCSCS Somalia TEAMS SEAMEWE-3 SAFE MalaysiaMalaysiaMalaysia Equatorial SEAMEWE-5 SAC/LANPANAMPCCS SAT-3 GUAM MARINE DEPOT Guinea WACS AAE-1 ST. CROIX MARINE DEPOT ATLANTIS-2 MATRIX Uganda BBG Piti, Guam Congo Kenya Indonesia St. Croix, U.S.V.I. Ecuador Gabon Congo Rwanda PACIFIC Gulf Of Guinea DRC Burundi SEAS JAKASUSI J-S Papua OCEAN Seychelles PACKET 2 New Guinea SAm-1 SAC/LAN PANAM Tanzania Arafura Solomon Is. Peru CURACAO MARINE DEPOT Timor-leste Sea LION 2 WACS WACS SOUTHERNTELSTRA CROSS AUSTRALIA-HAWAIIFIJI-HAWAIIHAWAIKI HONOTUA SAT-3 SAFE Curacao, NV EASSY SEACOM Angola INDIAN Coral Brazil INDIAN Sea OCEAN JASURAUS Zambia Malawi OCEAN APNG-2 SAm-1 SAC/LAN PANAM St. Helena Mozambique tests the network – in marine, terrestrial, and station Fiji SEAMEWE-3 Bolivia NEXTGEN DARWIN-PORT HEDLAND NETWORK SOLOMONS PPC-1 AJC Madagascar French Polynesia TONGA-FIGI Zimbabwe LION New Caledonia Mauritius BRAZIL DOMESTICATLANTIS-2SAC/LAN SAm-1 360 AMERICASGLOBENETAMX-1 MONET Namibia OPTICAL COMPONENTS Reunion Eveleigh, Australia Botswana Paraguay Chile SAm-1 Australia SAm-1 SAC/LAN Swaziland SAC GONDWANA-1 Tasman Sea Lesotho South SAFE Africa UNISUR Uruguay ATLANTIS-2 SOUTHERN CROSS SAC/LAN ATLANTIC TELSTRA AUSTRALIA-HAWAII Argentina SAm-1 OCEAN AUSTRALIA-NEW ZEALAND environments. BASS BASS SOUTHERN CROSS COOK STRAIT 2 STRAIT 1 BUSINESS OFFICE TGA STRAIT Singapore SEGUNDA FOS CANAL DE CHACAO FOS QUELLON - CHACABUCO New Zealand SUBSEA CABLE DEPLOYMENT Subsea Cable Systems TE SubCom Depot Falkland Is. Constructed by TE SubCom TE SubCom Oce Other Subsea Cable Systems Oil Platform Scotia The information contained herein has been obtained from sources Sea believed to be reliable | V.16.04.MP Weddell Sea TE SubCom | 250 Industrial Way West | Eatontown, NJ 07724 USA | +1.866.892.6611 | [email protected] | www.subcom.com EVERY CONNECTION COUNTS REPEATERS Engineered with optical amplifiers, TE’s hermetically sealed copper-beryllium capsules enable high-clarity transmissions across long-haul, low-latency, and extremely high-capacity networks. FIBER OPTIC SUBSEA CABLE Engineered to withstand extreme temperatures and pressures, TE subsea cable is manufactured to reliably transmit large-bandwidth, high-clarity communications across undersea routes running up to 13,000 kilometers – at 8,000 meters below the surface..
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