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Submarine cable system project linking India, Malaysia, Singapore unveiled recently.
Built by - It is a consortium comprising Microsoft, Singtel, Tata Communications and AI connectivity platform Lightstorm.
It will connect India, Malaysia and Singapore.
It is designed to cater to the hyperscalers, GPU infrastructure providers and enterprises running AI training and inference workloads across the India–Southeast Asia corridor.
The estimated length of the high-capacity cable is 3,600 km from Singapore to Machilipatnam with onwards connectivity to Hyderabad.
It will link the fastest-growing AI and hyperscaler data centre clusters in Hyderabad and Chennai directly to Singapore, a cloud interconnect and AI hub as well as Malaysia’s emerging data centre corridor in Kuala Lumpur.
It will have dual landings in India, with the one at Machilipatnam providing the shortest subsea access to Hyderabad and the other at a new diverse landing location in South Chennai.
The system is now open for capacity commitments.
I-2SEA is targeted to be ready-for-service in Q4 2029.
