Telekom Malaysia is making the One ASEAN dream a reality with first connecting Malaysia – Cambodia – Thailand with the commencement of the submarine cable system laying works in Cherating, Pahang spanning 1,300 kilometers expected to be completed and to be in service by 1st quarter of 2017.
Representing a major step towards enhancing the ASEAN connectivity with the lowest round-trip delay the submarine cable system will be utilising the latest Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing 100Gbps technology with an initial capacity of 1.5Tbps and could be upgraded to support a maximum of 30Tbps. The cable system consists of three fibre pairs which will link all three countries at their respective cable landing stations, namely Cherating in Malaysia, Rayong in Thailand and Sihanoukville in Cambodia. Huawei Marine has been given the task to execute the project.
This will be Cambodia’s first ever cable system and will allow an open access for licensed operators in each of the participating countries hence increasing economic efficiency and reducing tariffs at the same time.
To date TM has more than 20 submarine cable systems owned and leased spanning more than 200,000 fibre-route miles around the globe, the national operator also provides connectivity via several routes across the Asia-Pacific and the North American regions.
