Subsea resilience and uptime has always been a priority for the connectivity industry, but events in recent years have brought this to the forefront even more, with new risks and threats — geological, military and political — complicating the task of keeping data flowing to global markets.
While developing better methods to protect cables from damage helps, the most effective method is to have as dense and redundant a network as possible. For the European market, there are several exciting submarine cable projects due to come on stream in and around 2026 — Capacity Europe profiles six of them here.