Malaysian-based Hexa Capital Consultancy, the proprietor of the Malaysia-US (MYUS) cable, has appointed Alaska Communications as its US touchdown occasion for the upcoming MYUS cable. Set to launch by mid-2028, this fiber optic cable will set up a direct hyperlink between Malaysia and the US, enhancing digital connectivity throughout Southeast Asia.
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Route and Key Connection Factors
The cable spine will lengthen from the Malaysian Peninsula close to Mersing to the US territory of Guam, after which straight onward to Alaska Communications’ cable touchdown station in Florence, Oregon. Alongside the route, MYUS may even join Batam, Jakarta, and Balikpapan in Indonesia, and Davao within the Philippines.
“The MYUS cable is being designed particularly to offer trusted and dependable direct fiber connectivity between these places for giant hyperscalers, cloud suppliers, content material distributors, carriers, and authorities clients,” in line with Hexa.
“MYUS clients could be assured within the route design as a result of it avoids the problems confronted by different current undersea cables that transit contested waters in Southeast Asia, gives environment friendly routing for the bottom potential latency, and makes use of well-known, confirmed current cable touchdown websites with wonderful uptime efficiency and broadly out there backhaul choices for Hexa’s fiber pair homeowners,” added Hexa.
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Alaska Communications’ Position
Alaska Communications’ cable touchdown services in Florence embody the seaside touchdown, front-haul fiber, and cable touchdown station in-built 2008 for the Alaska-Oregon Community (AKORN), which was commissioned in 2009.
“Strategically positioned alongside the Oregon coast, our Florence touchdown station is a essential hub for subsea fiber optic cables, that are the spine of at this time’s web. This location gives unparalleled entry to a number of fiber backhaul suppliers, making certain seamless connectivity to main knowledge middle complexes in Seattle, Hillsboro, Silicon Valley, and past,” added Alaska Communications.
Malaysia-US (MYUS) Cable
The Malaysia-US (MYUS) Cable is a fiber optic undersea cable community connecting Malaysia, Indonesia, and the Philippines with the US in Guam and the Pacific Northwest of the continental US, with choices for added future extensions. MYUS is designed as a 16-fiber pair open cable system, with a minimal capability of 15 Tbps per pair, totalling 240 Tbps.
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Future Plans
The sale of MYUS’s wholesale fiber pairs will goal hyperscalers, cloud suppliers, international telcos, and governments, in line with the official launch.
Hexa expects to safe financing for the MYUS Cable by mid-2025, at which level the System Provide Contract will come into pressure, and manufacturing and building will start, aiming for a mid-2028 Prepared For Service (RFS) date.
