Telekom Malaysia Berhad is part of a consortium for the latest Southeast Asia – Middle East – Western Europe 6 (SEA-ME-WE 6) submarine cable system, that connects Malaysia with multiple countries namely Singapore, Bangladesh, India, Sri Lanka, Maldives, Pakistan, Oman, Djibouti, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and France.
The latest collaboration is part of TM’s investments in submarine cable systems including SEA-ME-WE 3, SEA-ME-WE 4, SEA-ME-WE 5 as well as other numerous international cable routes worldwide.
The SEA-ME-WE 6 will provide the group with one of the lowest latency routes between Malaysia and Europe and will also create an additional layer of network diversity and resilience for the heavily loaded traffic between Asia and Europe. It is refuted to have advanced technologies, an open cable system concept, and a design capacity of more than 100Tbps, according to TM this latest investment will provide the consortium members with complete control over their traffic management.
Commenting on the latest investment, TM Group Chief Executive Officer Imri Mokhtar said, “Our investment in SEA-ME-WE 6 will allow us to address our capacity requirements to cater for increasing future digital demand across Asia and Europe while continuing to provide reliable, diversified, and uninterrupted global connectivity solutions to customers. It will also allow TM to support the deployment of hyperscalers’ data centres as well as the future requirements of 5G network in the country.”
“The SEA-ME-WE 6 submarine cable will land at TM’s new cable landing station in Morib, the latest addition to TM’s existing four international cable landing stations in the country. Its strategic proximity to Klang Valley, which is close to most hyperscalers’ data centres, positions it as a key cable landing site for Malaysia.”
Imri added that the new investment will help realise TM’s aspiration to establish Malaysia as a regional digital hub by facilitating more submarine cables to land in Malaysia. This is part of its commitment to the MyDIGITAL initiative to attract more international submarine cables to land in Malaysia.
The consortium includes Bangladesh Submarine Cable Company Limited, Bharti Airtel Ltd., Dhivehi Raajjeyge Gulhun PLC, Djibouti Telecom SA, Etihad Etisalat Company, Orange, PT Telekomunikasi Indonesia International, Singapore Telecommunications Limited, Sri Lanka Telecom PLC (SLT), Telecom Egypt (TE) and Trans World Associates (TWA).
TM currently has 30 submarine cable systems owned and leased spanning more than 320,000 kilometres around the globe.
