Fiber-Optic Link Around the Globe

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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. Flag Telecom is the owner operator of the cable, and currently, FLAG is an ADAE company, part of the Reliance Group of Companies. Reliance is one of India's largest business house.

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)
- Northport, Suffolk County, New York, USA
- Island Park, Nassau County, New York, USA
- Skewjack (near Sennen, Cornwall), England, UK
- Plérin, Saint-Brieuc, Côtes-d'Armor, Brittany, France

Segment FLAG Alcatel-Lucent Optical Network (FALCON)
- Suez, As Suways Governorate, Egypt
- Port Sudan, Sudan
- Jeddah, Makkah Province, Saudi Arabia
- Al Hudaydah, Yemen
- Al Ghaydah, Yemen
- Al Seeb, Oman
- Khasab, Oman
- Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- Sumaisma, Qatar
- Manama, Bahrain
- Al Khubar, Saudi Arabia
- Kuwait City, Kuwait
- Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Thiruvananthapuram, India
- Hulumale, Maldives
- Male, Maldives

Segment FLAG Europe Asia (FEA)
- Porthcurno, Cornwall, England, UK
- Estepona, Málaga, Andalusia, Spain
- Palermo, Province of Palermo, Sicily, Italy
- Aqaba, Aqaba Governorate, Jordan
- Alexandria, Al Iskandariyah Governorate, Egypt
- Suez, As Suways Governorate, Egypt
- Jeddah, Makkah Province, Saudi Arabia
- Fujairah, United Arab Emirates
- Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Penang State, Malaysia, meeting SAFE and SEA-ME-WE 3
- Satun, Satun Province, Thailand
- Songkhla, Songkhla province, Thailand
- Silvermine Bay, Lantau Island, Hong Kong
- Nanhui, Shanghai, China
- Keoje, South Gyeongsang Province, South Korea
- Ninomiya, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
- Miura, Kanagawa, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan

Segment FLAG North Asia Loop (FNAL)/Tiger
- Tong Fuk, Lantau Island, Hong Kong
- Toucheng, Yilan County, Taiwan
- Pusan, South Korea
- 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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