E-commerce and bandwidth demands driving new Singtel co-led cable consortium to North Asia
Built with the cooperation of five regional carriers, the new cable will stretch from Singapore up to Hong Kong and Hainan.
Singtel's SEA-ME-WE 6 cable to Europe to reach speeds of 100TB per second
The new cable will offer one of the lowest latencies available between Southeast Asia, the Middle East and Western Europe, with more than twice the capacity of previous cables.
Facebook and Google invest in new undersea cables connecting the US and Singapore
Facebook expects the new cables to increase overall transpacific Internet capacity by 70%.
Google and Facebook look to expand reach in Asia with new undersea cable connection
Google and Facebook have teamed up to build a direct connection to Asia. In a recent announcement, both technology giants said they would be working with the Pacific Light Data Communications Company and TE SubCom to build the first direct undersea connection between Los Angeles and Hong Kong.
Facebook and Microsoft join forces to lay Internet cable across the Atlantic
The undersea cable, called MAREA, is 6,600km long and has a bandwidth of 160Tbps (terabits per second).
