The New Subsea Cables RFS 2025 Series: Bifrost
Type of Cable System: Spatial Division Multiplexing. Consortium Members: Amazon, Facebook, Keppel, and Telin. Construction Status: Behind schedule due to permitting delays for Indonesian waters. Number of Fibre Pairs: Main trunk has 12. Some branches have 6. Estimated RFS: 1st or 2nd quarter 2025. Day One Aggregate Throughput: 125 Tbps. Salient Features: First low latency, three digit terabit cable between Singapore and USA. Bifrost is the name of the burning rainbow bridge that connects Earth to the Realm of the Gods in Norse mythology. This new 12 fibre pair system is a wide lane digital bridge between Southeast Asia and North America (lands in the US and Mexico). It is the first direct single subsea cable solution connecting Singapore, Indonesia, and Philippines to North America that does not touch China or Hong Kong. The key consortium members include Facebook, Telin, Keppel (a new subsea player providing the Singapore landing), and Amazon. Singtel has some lit capacity on the