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| Company type | Simplified joint stock company |
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| Industry | Telecommunications |
| Founded | 1858 |
| Headquarters | 1 avenue du Canada, Les Ulis, Paris-Saclay, France |
Key people | Alain Biston (CEO) |
| Services | Manufacture, deployment and maintenance of submarine cable networks |
| Revenue | 692,000,000 Euro (2020)  |
| −89,100,000 Euro (2020) | |
| Owner | Agence des participations de l'État (80%) Nokia (20%) |
Number of employees | 2,000 |
| Website | asn.com |
Alcatel Submarine Networks (ASN) is a French company and one of the three world leaders in the manufacture and installation of submarine cables. It was a subsidiary of Alcatel, then Alcatel-Lucent, until it was acquired by the Finnish group Nokia in 2016. It was owned by Nokia France from 2016 to 2024. The French state acquired 80% of the company's capital in November 2024.[1]
Alcatel Submarine Networks designs, manufactures, lays and maintains telecommunications submarine cables and related equipment, using its own vessels to carry optical fibre around the globe. Laying telecommunications submarine cables is a strategic industry.[2][3] ASN, Subcom and NEC dominate this global market, with 99% of Internet traffic passing through these cables, 80% of which transits through the United States, whatever its destination.[4] In 2018, ASN's market share (30%) was ahead of Japanese competitor NEC (23%) and American Subcom (20%).[5]
As of 2024[update], ASN has 2,000 employees, including 1,370 in France. The company has several sites in France, the United Kingdom and Norway. Alcatel Submarine Networks has a fleet of seven cable-laying vessels and is the world No. 1 in the sector.[1]
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- ^ Antoine Izambard (12 September 2019). "Alcatel Submarine Networks, le champion français des câbles sous-marins revit grâce à Facebook et Google". Challenges. Retrieved 28 June 2024.