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'FLAG' ('F'iber-Optic 'L'ink 'A'round the 'G'lobe) is a 28,000 kilometer long undersea fiber optic cable 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.
Landing points are:

★ Segment 'FLAG Atlantic 1 (FA-1)'

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★ Northport, Suffolk County, New York, USA

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★ Island Park, Nassau County, New York, USA

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★ Skewjack (near Sennen, Cornwall), England, UK

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★ Plérin, Saint-Brieuc, Côtes-d'Armor, Brittany, France

★ Segment 'FLAG Europe Asia (FEA)'

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★ Porthcurno, Cornwall, England, UK

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★ Estepona, Málaga, Andalusia, Spain

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★ Palermo, Province of Palermo, Sicily, Italy

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★ Aqaba, Aqaba Governorate, Jordan

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★ Alexandria, Al Iskandariyah Governorate, Egypt

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★ Suez, As Suways Governorate, Egypt

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★ Jeddah, Makkah Province, Saudi Arabia

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★ Fujairah, United Arab Emirates

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★ Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

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★ Penang State, Malaysia, meeting SAFE and SEA-ME-WE 3

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★ Satun, Satun Province, Thailand

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★ Songkhla, Songkhla province, Thailand

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★ Silvermine Bay, Lantau Island, Hong Kong

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★ Nanhui, Shanghai, China

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★ Keoje, South Gyeongsang Province, South Korea

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★ Ninomiya, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan

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★ Miura, Kanagawa, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan

★ Segment 'FLAG North Asia Loop (FNAL)/Tiger'

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★ Tong Fuk, Lantau Island, Hong Kong

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★ Toucheng, Yilan County, Taiwan

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★ Pusan, South Korea

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★ Wada, Wakayama Prefecture, Japan
West of Mumbai, FLAG has a capacity of 80 Gbit/s.
The segment between Hong Kong and Pusan was broken by the 2006 Hengchun earthquake.

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External links

External links

★ FLAG website

★ KDN pips EASSY to the post in $115M deal with FLAG