Banking on growing demand from AI users, Tata Communications is spending US$152 million to expand the subsea cable links between India and Singapore to carry an additional 98Tbps of traffic.
Part of this will go towards integrating a subsea cable system between Mumbai and Singapore, according to the India-based telecom operator yesterday.
It is also investing as a consortium member in another subsea cable system connecting Chennai to Singapore, which is expected to be ready for service in the fourth quarter of 2029.
The India-Singapore subsea route is expected to become an important digital corridor in future that supports enterprise, cloud, and hyperscaler traffic between India, Southeast Asia, and global markets.
Tata Communications said this additional capacity on its Tata Global Network (TGN) network will strengthen its diversity, agility and high-performance connectivity to customers, to better support the needs of enterprises and data centre operators that seek connectivity between India and Singapore.
The accelerating global demand for digital and AI-driven services is the reason for Tata Communications investments to “strengthen the reliability, scalability and performance of connectivity solutions for our customers across one of the world’s busiest digital corridors,” said Genius Wong, chief technology officer for Tata Communications.
“These enhancements align with Tata Communications’ long-term strategy to expand its global subsea network footprint, provide business outcome solutions to customers and reinforce India’s position as a digital hub,” he added.
The new subsea systems will connect with Tata Communications India Terrestrial fibre network for seamless onward connectivity to other parts of the country and to over 100 data centres in India.
The expanded network should also strengthen its suite of Izo connectivity solutions, enabling customers to activate and integrate new capacities into their networks on demand.
The investments build on Tata Communications’ existing global network infrastructure, which spans over 500,000km of subsea optical fibre and more than 200,000km of terrestrial fibre.
Last year, the telecom operator announced the TGN-IA2 (Tata Global Network-Intra-Asia 2) submarine cable, which connects Japan, Hong Kong and Singapore, as a sub-system of the Asia Direct Cable system.
