Daet, Philippines

Daet, Philippines: Submarine Cable Landing Point

Daet is a municipality and the capital of Camarines Norte province in the Philippines, situated along the country's eastern seaboard. As a submarine cable landing point, Daet connects the Philippines to two international submarine cable systems, placing it among the country's active nodes in the broader Asia-Pacific digital network. The Philippines as a whole hosts 26 submarine cables across 71 landing points, and Daet's two cables position it in the upper tier of that national infrastructure by cable count.

The two cables landing at Daet serve distinctly different corridors. JUPITER links the Philippines directly to Japan and the United States, forming a transpacific route. The Asia Submarine-cable Express (ASE)/Cahaya Malaysia connects the Philippines to China, Japan, Malaysia, and Singapore, enabling a multi-country Southeast and East Asian regional corridor. Together, these two systems give Daet both a transpacific reach and a regional intra-Asian connectivity dimension.

Cables Landing at Daet

JUPITER is a transpacific submarine cable system measuring 14,557 km in length, which reached ready-for-service status in 2020. Beyond Daet in the Philippines, the cable extends to landing points in Japan and the United States, making it one of the longer systems touching Philippine shores and one of the more recently commissioned cables in the country's network.

Asia Submarine-cable Express (ASE)/Cahaya Malaysia is a regional cable system spanning 8,148 km, which entered service in 2012. The cable connects Daet to landing points across a broad sweep of Asia, including China, Japan, Malaysia, and Singapore. Its multi-country footprint makes it a regionally significant link, tying Daet into the core connectivity fabric of Southeast and East Asia.

Regional Context

Within the Philippines, Daet's two cables place it below the country's most connected landing points. Batangas, Cagayan de Oro, Davao, and Taytay each host four cables, while Baler and Boracay each host three. Daet sits one step below that tier, sharing its two-cable status with a number of other Philippine landing points across the archipelago.

Network Role

Daet functions as a dual-cable landing point serving two complementary international corridors: a transpacific route via JUPITER reaching Japan and the United States, and a multi-country Asian route via ASE/Cahaya Malaysia connecting to China, Japan, Malaysia, and Singapore. This combination means Daet terminates cable capacity in both the Pacific basin and the broader Southeast Asian regional network, rather than serving only a single geographic axis.

Within the Philippine submarine cable graph, which spans 71 landing points and 26 cables, Daet represents one of the nodes that combines transoceanic reach with regional Asian connectivity under a single landing point — a pairing that distinguishes it from landing points served exclusively by shorter, intra-regional systems.