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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.
Reference
The Hindu | Submarine cable system project
