TELIN: Indonesia As A Global Hub For Worldwide Telecommunications

The consortium of submarine cable communication system by the Southeast Asia-United States (SEA-US), which consist of global telecommunications company, announced the commencement of construction of the submarine cable projects that directly connects Indonesia to the United States. The construction project undertaken by the NEC Corporation and NEC Corporation of America with an investment of 250 million dollars is expected to be completed in the fourth quarter of 2016.

The SEA-US consortium consist of PT. Telekomunikasi Indonesia International (Telin), Globe Telecom, RAM Telecom International (RTI), Hawaiian Telcom, Teleguam Holdings (GTA), GTI Corporation (a member of the Globe Telecom group), and Telkom USA.

Director of Telin, Syarial Sharif Ahmad said, the construction of submarine cable communication system has become one of the important steps to meet the needs of rapid communication in Indonesia as well as proving Telin’s commitment in bringing high-tech telecommunications infrastructure.

This submarine cable system will connect five regions of Manado (Indonesia), South Davao (Philippines), Piti in Guam, Honolulu of the island of Oahu Hawaii, and Los Angeles, California in the united states.

The long submarine cable construction is estimated to reach 15,0000 km and has been designed to avoid areas prone to natural disasters, so as to provide a different route than the existing cable system and ensure a more stable reliability service.

The cable system provides an additional capacity of terabyte per second (Tb/s) by using technology of 100 gigabyte per second (Gb/s). With this capacity, SEA-US will be able to provide the bandwidth needs of Southeast Asia and North America, which are always increasing with unmatched performance, especially for the two ASEAN countries. The construction of the system will also benefit other countries such as Singapore, Malaysia, Brunei, Papua New Guinea, and Australia.

The construction of the SEA-US project will later be connected with the SEA-ME-WE 5 (South East Asia – Middle East – West Europe) project by connecting Manado and Dumai via submarine cable communication system “Indonesia Global Gateway” (IGG). The overall submarine cable communication system by Telin is the reflection of Indonesia Global Networks (IGN) that highlights the real role of Indonesia as a global hub for worldwide telecommunications.