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The cable landing station will be Washington state’s first new subsea landing facility to be built in more than 25 years.

By Brad Randall, Broadband Communities

Toptana Technologies, an Indigenous-owned telecommunications company operated by the Quinault Indian Nation, has broken ground on a new cable landing station on Washington State’s Pacific coast, establishing the state’s first new subsea landing facility in more than 25 years.

Designed to house up to four subsea cable systems, the Ocean Shores facility will link undersea routes directly with terrestrial fiber networks along the Interstate 5 corridor to major data centers in Seattle and Hillsboro, Oregon. The station’s first planned deployment is the Amazon Web Services-owned “Sta’O’Nuk” subsea cable system, an Asia-Pacific link named after a Quinault language term meaning “lightning serpent,” the company announced Sept. 3.

Developed in partnership with program manager and operator Assured Communications, the project aims to create alternative transpacific routes for expanding cloud and data traffic while creating economic opportunities for underserved tribal and regional communities.

Notably, Toptana Technologies was also named the recipient of the Tribal Lands Award at the 2026 Broadband Communities Awards.

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