Global submarine telecommunications and power cable geospatial database

Name: Global submarine telecommunications and power cable geospatial database: as-laid route coordinates, cable system/segment attributes, owner, install year, in/out-of-service status, plus a cable fault and repair event log with fault-rate heat maps
Creator: OceanIQ (GeoCable)

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Global submarine telecommunications and power cable geospatial database: as-laid route coordinates, cable system/segment attributes, owner, install year, in/out-of-service status, plus a cable fault and repair event log with fault-rate heat maps

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Industry: Marine TransportApplication Software
Instruments: equities
Categories: Geospatial

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Type: not stated
Format: Multimodal (GIS vector/tabular — ESRI Shapefile, GeoMedia .mdb, KML/KMZ, WMS/WFS — plus derived raster heat maps)
Volume: Over 2.8 million km of telecom cable plus 40,000 km of power cable routes; 850+ in-service systems across 2,500+ segments; ~6,000 historical fault records covering ~170 years (earliest entry 1851)
Users: N/A — subscription B2B dataset, not a registered-user product; subscriber base is institutional (cable owners, installers, governments) and undisclosed
History: 170 years
Update frequency: not stated
Growth: Active — new product tiers (GeoCable Light/Pro, 2022), Power GIS layer and heat maps (Dec 2021), Cable Fault Prediction Reports, ~50 database updates per month, exhibiting at UDT 2026
Launched: ~1999-2000 for the GeoCable dataset (25th anniversary celebrated from a March 2024 post); OceanIQ as a standalone brand launched September 2020
Delivery: not stated
Entity mapping: not stated
Sample: not stated
Point-in-time: not stated
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