The members of the Southeast Asia-Japan 2 consortium (SJC2) have signed an agreement with NEC to build a submarine cable connecting Singapore, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, Hong Kong, Taiwan, mainland China, Korea and Japan. The 10,500-km submarine cable will have links to eleven cable landing stations in the region and is expected to be completed by the fourth quarter of 2020.
The cable will feature up to eight pairs of high capacity optical fibre with initial design capacity of 144 Tbps. The SJC2 will be built and operated by a global consortium comprising China Mobile International, Chunghwa Telecom, Chuan Wei, Facebook, KDDI, Singtel, SK Broadband and VNPT.
