PEACE Cable, which stands for Pakistan and East Africa Connecting Europe, is a submarine cable project designed to facilitate data transmission between Asia, Europe, and Africa. It is owned by Peace Cable International, a subsidiary of Hengtong Group. The 15,000 km cable system is deployed along the seafloor of the Indian Ocean, the Red Sea and the Mediterranean Sea, with plans to extend the cable length to 25,000 km. It is based on WSS ROADM technology with a design capacity of 24 Tbit/s per fiber pair. The cable entered service and became fully operational in December 2022.
The main trunk connects Pakistan, Kenya, Egypt, Singapore and France but there are also branches to the Maldives, Malta, Cyprus, the Seychelles, Djibouti, Saudi Arabia and Somalia.
Landing points and operators
Privately owned branches
Incidents
On 4 March 2025, the PEACE cable was reported to have been cut approximately 1,450 kilometers from Zafarana, Egypt impacting traffic to Marseille. It became the second cable concurrently affected by an outage in the Red Sea, alongside the AAE-1 cable which was cut 180 kilometers from Zafarana on 29 December 2024 and pending full restoration amidst delays. The cause of the breakage is not known, but in recent years, the Red Sea faced multiple cable cuts and were suggested to have been caused by abandoned ships that have drifted and damaged subsea cables, due to Houthi attacks in Yemeni waters.
Repairs are expected to take several months, likely due to the cable ship capacity crunch, which has seen many projects delayed, and some re-routed.
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