
Fiber-Optic Link Around the Globe
FLAG (Fiber-Optic Link Around the Globe) is a 28,000 kilometer long submarine communications cable containing optical fiber that connects England, Japan, and many places in between. The Europe-Asia segment was laid in the mid-1990s and was the subject of an extensive article in Wired Magazine in December, 1996 by Neal Stephenson. The cable was laid by NYNEX.

SEA-ME-WE 3 (cable system)
SEA-ME-WE 3 or South-East Asia - Middle East - Western Europe 3 is an optical submarine telecommunications cable linking those regions and is the longest in the world, completed in late 2000.
It is 39,000 km in length and uses Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM) technology to increase capacity and enhance the quality of the signal, especially over long distances (this cable stretches from North Germany to Australia and Japan).

中美海缆(英语:China-US Cable Network,CUCN)是连接亚太地区多国的海底电缆。
中美海缆有以下的海缆登陆点:
- 中国广东省汕头市
- 台湾屏东县枋山乡
- 中国上海市崇明县
- 日本冲绳县
- 韩国釜山市
- 日本千叶县千仓町
- 关岛塔穆宁村Tanguisson Point
- 美国俄勒冈州库斯县班顿
- 美国加州圣路易欧比斯波郡圣路易欧比斯波