A new submarine cable, the South East Asia Hainan-Hong Kong Express Cable System (SEA-H2X), that will connect Hong Kong, China, Philippines, Thailand, Malaysia and Singapore is set to be operational by 2024.
The new cable system will help businesses and consumers benefit from increasing digital ties.
Converge ICT Solutions Inc., China Mobile International Ltd., China Unicom Global and PPTEL SEA H2X Sdn. Bhd. yesterday reaffirmed their partnership to construct and operate the SEA-H2X, with an option to extend to Vietnam, Cambodia, West Malaysia and Indonesia.
The parties to the SEA-H2X project have appointed HMN Technologies Co. Ltd. (HMN Tech) to build the cable in a fully funded project which will greatly enhance intra-Asian connectivity.
The construction and maintenance agreement and supply contract with HMN Tech took effect on March 4, 2022.
At approximately 5,000 kilometers in length, the SEA-H2X cable will consist of at least 8-fiber pairs between Hong Kong SAR and Singapore, with a design capacity of 160 terabits per second to meet the growing bandwidth requirement in the region.
“We are pleased to be a partner in this trans-Asia cable that will respond to the booming data traffic between Hong Kong SAR and Southeast Asia. This submarine cable system will boost the connectivity between our two PoPs located in Hong Kong and in Singapore,” Dennis Anthony Uy, Converge chief executive officer and co-founder, said in a statement.
“Further, this will serve as a crucial infrastructure to add diversity and redundancy to our international network. We are truly diversifying our international capacity portfolio as transpacific demand will be served by the Bifrost, and now trans-Asia demand will be served by SEA-H2X,” Uy added.
The SEA-H2X high-performance submarine cable system aims to bring speed and capacity to support the digital transformation in Asia by 2024. – Myla Iglesias
