Europe India Gateway (EIG) is a submarine communications cable system that connects the U.K., Portugal, Gibraltar, Monaco, France, Libya, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Djibouti, Oman, United Arab Emirates, and India.
The cable system was built by both Alcatel-Lucent[2] and TE Subcom (formerly known as Tyco) and was scheduled to be completed in the second quarter of 2010.
EIG has cable landing points at:[5][6] In February 2020, Ciena announced it had completed a major upgrade to the cable to boost capacity for international business traffic, adding 24.3 Tbit/s of information carrying capacity, with a spectral efficiency increase of 52%.
[12] In February 2018, The Sunday Times reported that the infrastructure for the UK landing site of the Apollo, GLO-1 and Europe India Gateway cables had been found almost entirely unprotected.
Their reporter was able to reach the premises without being challenged, and found the door to the generator room unlocked and left ajar.