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Alcatel Submarine Networks (ASN), headquartered at Les Ulis in the Paris-Saclay area of France, designs, manufactures, installs and maintains submarine telecommunications cable systems — the fibre-optic backbone of global internet traffic.
Corrected 2026-08-31: dossier previously described ASN as a 'wholly owned Nokia subsidiary' — this is stale. Nokia agreed in mid-2024 to sell 80% of ASN to the French State (citing subsea-cable digital-sovereignty concerns); the sale completed 2024-12-31/2025-01 (sources differ by a day on the exact date), for roughly EUR 100m plus the French State assuming ~EUR 250m of ASN debt. Nokia retained a 20% stake and board representation 'to ensure a smooth transition,' with an option for the French State to acquire the remaining interest later. GLEIF's LEI record for ASN (9695004FEZ0NLFB4EA87) is now LAPSED and still lists Nokia Oyj as sole parent — it has not been updated for this ownership change, so it is not usable as the current-state source here; the sale is instead corroborated by Nokia's own newsroom announcement and independent trade press (Telecompaper, Wikipedia). No dossier exists in this corpus for the French State itself as a holding entity (distinct from portfolio companies like Airbus/Orano), so parent_slug is left unset rather than pointed at nokia-he, which would misstate current control.
Named counterparties identified by open-source research and written only where a primary source states the relationship — never inferred from sector or co-mention. 1 customer-side. This is a partial view: it covers the relationships we could evidence, not the company's full supply base.
Meta's own newsroom announcement: ASN built the Havhingsten cable system (with Aqua Comms and Bulk Fiber Networks) as the world's first aluminium-conductor-powered subsea cable system, corroborating the dossier's aluminium-substitution claim with a named customer. No contract value disclosed.
Scope. Absence of a counterparty here is not evidence that none exists — most commercial sourcing is confidential and never becomes public. Rows without a share figure mean no share was disclosed, not that the relationship is small.
Every exposure is read as a buyer dependency; the top 2 are its binding chokepoints.
As a buyer, policy pressure across its consumed materials is flat.
Descriptive trend in official policy actions on this company’s materials — a policy-pressure trend, not a price or trading signal. No forward probability is implied. Direction is measured on actions we have discovered, and discovery lags events: where the recent window is too thin to support a calm reading, the row says coverage-limited instead of easing.
No actions in the register have named or swept this company in the last 24 months.