SEACOM announced Wednesday (March 15, 2023) it had gone live on the Equiano subsea cable following the cable’s landing in Cape Town, South Africa, in August 2022. SEACOM offers Private Line services with latency speeds of +/-110ms between South Africa and Europe, making it the fastest direct route between the continents. SEACOM services via the Equiano cable has been available.

Sparkle announced Tuesday (February 28, 2023) the arrival of BlueMed cable in the Genoa Landing Platform, the city is about to become a key internet node between Europe, Africa, the Middle East and Asia, entering the map of the world's main internet hubs.

FARICE announced Wednesday that customer traffic on its IRIS cable system has been activated between a POP in Iceland and Dublin Interxion DUB2. The IRIS submarine cable has been ready for service (RFS) as of March 1, 2023. 

Vocus, Australia’s specialist fibre and network solutions provider, has begun the rollout of the final $100M segment of its Darwin-Jakarta-Singapore Cable (DJSC) system.

WIOCC landed the 2Africa subsea cable system into its carrier-neutral data centre Open Access Data Centres (OADC) in Durban, KwaZulu-Natal province, South Africa. This offers the province and country a huge increase in international capacity and the promise of more reliable internet and other connectivity services.

Unitirreno Submarine Network S.p.A. (Unitirreno) announced Wednesday Contract-in-Force (CIF) for the construction of its new optical fiber submarine cable system in the Tyrrhenian Sea. The Unitirreno submarine cable has a total cable length of approximately 1,030 kilometers, with its main trunk connecting Mazara del Vallo to Genoa (890km) and a branch to Rome (140km).

French Polynesian telecom operator ONATi, a subsidiary of the OPT French Polynesia Group, has selected Intelia and Ciena to increase the capacity of the Honotua international submarine cable to 300Gb/s and support an upgrade path to 5Tb/s of total capacity to rapidly address future growth.

Vodacom (Pty) Ltd (Vodacom) announced the landing of 2Africa subsea cable at its facility in Gqeberha (South Africa's Eastern Cape), to provide a gateway to direct international connectivity for faster, more reliable internet services in the country.

América Móvil and Telxius announced Tuesday the deployment of a new ultrahigh capacity subsea cable to link Puerto Barrios (Guatemala) with Boca Raton (US). The subsea cable system is named AMX3 by América Móvil and Tikal by Telxius, with an initial estimated capacity of 190 Tbps, to be supplied by Alcatel Submarine Networks (ASN).

Commercial 400GbE services has been available on the Southern Cross NEXT (SX Next) cable, between Australia, New Zealand and the United States. The 400GbE service runs on Ciena’s 6500 Packet-Optical Platform.

Aqua Comms announced the successful acquisition of Openbyte Infrastructure Private Limited (Openbyte), an India-based licensed telecom company focused on providing neutral, open access landing solutions for submarine cables. The acquisition of Openbyte is key in supporting Aqua Comms’ global connectivity expansion plans, providing a carrier-neutral platform in India for Aqua Comms services.

Infinera announced Monday that Infinera’s ICE6 800G coherent optical solution has been deployed to modernize and increase capacity on the trans-Pacific Unity submarine cable system. By upgrading to Infinera’s ICE6 solution, the Unity cable system will double capacity and deliver up to 7.4 Tbps per fiber pair.

China Telecom Global Limited (CTG) and SUNeVision jointly announced Friday that the Asia Direct Cable (ADC) has officially landed at SUNeVision’s HKIS-1 Cable Landing Station (CLS) located at Chung Hom Kok. The ADC cable system will also have a City PoP at SUNeVision's MEGA Plus carrier-neutral data center at Tseung Kwan O (TKO) industrial park.

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has issued the Consultation Paper on 'Licensing Framework and Regulatory Mechanism for Submarine Cable Landing in India'.

PEACE Cable International Network Co., Ltd announced Thursday that the under-construction section of PEACE Cable System has completed system-wide acceptance testing, and is now ready to go live for commercial use, providing international customers with a range of high-speed and low-latency connectivity services.