Taiwan has a strategic position as an Asia-Pacific information hub and the world's largest semiconductor foundry, the securtiy and resilience of subsea cables connecting Taiwan is critical for the AI-driven innovations in the world.

There are numerous and robust Intra-Asia and Trans-Pacific subsea cables connecting Taiwan, landing at 8 cable landing stations:

• Tanshui Cable Landing Station (NCIC): C2C, TSE-1 and FASTER
• Tanshui Cable Landing Station (CHT):  APCN-2, SJC2 and TPE
• Pali Cable Landing Station: EAC
• Toucheng Cable Landing Station (CHT): APCN (retired), SMW3(retired), APG, NCP, PLCN and E2A.
• Toucheng Cable Landing Station (REACH): RNAL/FNAL and ORCA (formerly HKA) 
• Fangshan Cable Landing Station(CHT): China-US CN and SMW3(retired)
• Fangshan Cable Landing Station(NCIC): C2C
• Dawu Cable Landing Station (CHT): TPU

 

Global internet giants and operators have heavy investments in Taiwan. 

Google has two hyperscale data centers in Taiwan, one in Changhua County which costs US$780 million and was completed in 2013, the other in Tainan Technology Industrial Park which will cost US$850 million, with a power supply of 10MW. So, Google has built three subsea cables connecting Taiwan and the US, FASTER, PLCN and TPU. Google also acquies huge capacity on other subsea cables connectign Taiwan.

Meta (Facebook) has significant investment on subsea cables connecting Taiwan, including APG, SJC2 and ORCA (formerly HKA). The ORCA is now a private subsea cable owned by Meta. 

Besides local operators including Chunghwa Telecom, Far EasTone Telecom (NCIC), etc., Telstra represents a key player on submarine cable business in Taiwan, its EAC-C2C network landing in 4 cable landing stations in Taiwan, and being Meta's ORCA landing partner in Taiwan.

Geographically, the east and south coast of Taiwan island is of significant importance for the submarine networks, and is also a high-risk region for the submarine networks due to the characteristics of the geology of Taiwan.

The east and south of Taiwan are a complex system of belts formed by, and part of the zone of, active collision between the North Luzon Through portion of the Luzon Volcanic Arc and South China, where accreted portions of the Luzon Arc and Luzon forearc form the eastern Coastal Range and parallel inland Longitudinal Valley of Taiwan respectively. This region is encountered frequent seismic faults which may caused serious harmful impact to the submarine networks. For example, the magnitude 7.0 Hengchun Earthquake in December 2006 resulted in 18 cable cuts in 8 submarine cable systems, atastrophically disrupted Internet services in Asia and Pan-Pacific regions.