Subsea Cables & Internet Infrastructure

Asia United Group East (AUG East) cable's main trunk links Tokyo and Singapore with branches to South Korea, Taiwan, Philippines, Brunei, Malaysia, and possibly Indonesia (the consortium has stated the cable will land in Indonesia, but the map below shows Indonesia is off-net). Few project details are available. Fibre pair count is unknown, but it will be at least 16 and likely as much as 24 fibre pairs given the region's incredible Layer 3 traffic growth. Consortium members include Microsoft, Amazon, Singtel, the Japanese long haul carrier ARTERIA, Chunghwa Telecom (Taiwan PTT), DREAMLINE (Korean competitive carrier), GLOBE Telecom, and Unified National Networks (Brunei). Like Candle, it avoids the South China Sea by hugging its perimeter in order to avoid Chinese permitting (China claims the South China Sea as territorial waters and requires Chinese government permits for all subsea cables laid in it) and put distance between itself and the large number of cables packed toget...

Tiktok is investing $25 billion in a Thai data center. They recently purchased over 4 terabits of Layer 1 capacity into Bangkok causing prices to skyrocket. I have located some spare capacity at the 10G and 100G level.   Appetizer ...  A point: Songkhla Cable Landing Station. Z point: SG1, Singapore.  Two diversely routed 10G waves.  Term: 3 years.  MRC per wave: $8.5K.