Today, Telekom Malaysia Berhad (TM) announced that the Company is part of a consortium for the latest Southeast Asia - Middle East - Western Europe 6 (SEA-ME-WE 6) submarine cable system. This SEA-ME-WE 6 system will connect Malaysia with multiple countries such as Singapore, Bangladesh, India, Sri Lanka, Maldives, Pakistan, Oman, Djibouti, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and France.
The Company's participation in the consortium was made official with the signing of the Construction and Maintenance Agreement (C&MA) with all consortium members recently. The SEA-ME-WE 6 joins the list of TM’s investments in submarine cable systems including SEA-ME-WE 3, SEA-ME-WE 4, SEA-ME-WE 5 and other international cable routes worldwide.
According to TM, SEA-ME-WE 6 will provide TM with one of the lowest latency routes between Malaysia and Europe. Its open cable system concept and advanced technology can reach a capacity of more than 100Tbps and will also create an additional layer of network diversity for the heavily loaded traffic between Asia and Europe.
TM Group CEO Imi Mokhtar said the latest SEA-ME-WE 6 investment will allow TM to support the deployment of hyperscalers' data centres as well as the future requirements of the 5G network in the country. Moreover, this new submarine cable is stationed in Morib, which is close to most hyperscalers’ data centres, positions it as a key cable landing site for Malaysia.
TM now has 30 submarine cable systems owned and leased spanning more than 320,000 kilometres around the globe. Stay tuned for more trending tech news at TechNave.com.
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