Alaska Communications will land the MYUS subsea cable at its cable landing station in Florence, Oregon.

The MYUS cable is set to link the US and Malaysia and will be operational in mid-2028.

First announced at the end of last year, the cable will land in Oregon and Guam in the US, Jakarta, Batam, Balikpapan in Indonesia, and Davao City in the Philippines.

It is expected to feature 16 fiber pairs along its main branch.

Other specifications, such as the cable’s capacity, have not been shared.

The cable is owned by telecom startup Hexa Capital Consultancy. The firm plans on selling the cable’s fiber pairs to long-term owners in the future.

Abang Azhari Hadari, founder and CEO at Hexa, said: “The MYUS cable is being designed specifically to provide trusted and reliable direct fiber connectivity between these locations for large, hyperscale, cloud, content, carrier, and government customers."

Hadari said the route would avoid the problems that have "plagued" existing undersea cables that transit contested waters in Southeast Asia.

It "provides efficient routing for lowest possible latency, and uses well-known, well-proven existing cable landing sites that have excellent uptime performance as well as widely-available backhaul options for Hexa’s fiber pair owners," he said.

Alaska Communications’ cable landing station in Florence, Oregon, was built in 2008 for the Alaska-Oregon network, known as AKORN.

Hexa Capital is a Malaysian telecom startup, specializing in the planning, financing, construction, and operation of its only cable, MYUS.