The final splice of the Peace cable system to Singapore has been completed and the cable is set to go live in the coming weeks.
“Today, [the] Peace Cable System achieved a major milestone with the successful final splice of [the] 6,300km Peace Singapore segment,“ said cable maker HMN Tech on LinkedIn.
Construction of the Singapore portion began in December last year. Once live, the cable will connect Singapore to Europe, Asia, and Africa.
The Huawei-made Peace cable was first launched in 2022, linking Marseille in France to Egypt. Extensions to Pakistan and Kenya were completed in 2022.
The cable now has 13 landing points across 12 countries.
Peace is operated by Hong Kong-based telecoms company PCCW Global and is 15,000km long (9,320m). The cable has a capacity of up to 96Tbps for the Pakistan-Egypt segment, and 192Tbps for the Mediterranean segment from Egypt to France.
An extension of the cable to Tunisia landed in Bizerte in February this year, in partnership with Ooredoo's local unit. In the same month, the cable landed in Kulhudhuffushi in the Maldives.
Tuas in Singapore currently hosts cables including the Indigo-West cable, IGG System, SeaMeWe-3, SeaMeWe-4, SeaMeWe-5, and Southeast Asia-Japan cables.
Cables set to go live in the next three years include the MIST, INSICA, Asia Direct Cable, Apricot, and Bifrost cables.
