Blue-Raman cable system
The Blue-Raman cable system announced by Google in 2021, and operationalized in 2025 is an intercontinental fibre-optic communications cable connecting France to India and also connecting Italy, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Djibouti, and Oman. The cable has a Mediterranean submarine segment named Blue, and an eastern submarine segment named Raman which passes through the Red Sea and Arabian Sea. Both segments fuse on-land at an underground location north of the city of Eilat in southern Israel. By connecting the Mediterranean to the Red Sea overland, the cable avoids passing through Egypt, a country widely regarded as a chokepoint for Internet connectivity. The cable consists of 16 fiber pairs implementing google's new space-division multiplexing technology, providing a capacity of about 218 Tbps, but able to provide up to 400 Tbps in the future. This makes Blue-Raman the highest capacity cable linking Europe to Asia.