Lazaro Cardenas-Manzanillo Santiago Submarine Cable System (LCMSSCS)

Lazaro Cardenas-Manzanillo Santiago Submarine Cable System (LCMSSCS) is a 322 km unrepeated submarine cable built by Huawei Marine Networks (now HMN Technologies) for Telmex. It connects three Pacific coast cities — Ciudad Lázaro Cárdenas, Ixtapa-Zihuatanejo, and Manzanillo — across the Mexican states of Michoacán, Guerrero, and Colima. The system entered service in Q4 2013 at a reported cost of approximately US$25 million, with a capacity of 200 Gbps (2x100G). As an unrepeated system with no powered amplifiers on the seabed, it has lower maintenance requirements and costs — a design choice enabled by its relatively short span. The cable strengthens Mexico's Pacific coast backbone, providing an alternative to terrestrial fiber routes. GeoCables monitors this cable with RIPE Atlas probes.