Lightstorm, a homegrown carrier-neutral infrastructure solutions provider, has signed contracts with Microsoft, Singtel, and Tata Communications to launch a new submarine cable system linking Hyderabad and Chennai with Singapore and Malaysia. <\/p>\n
NEC Corporation has been appointed as system supplier and ASEAN Cableship Pte Ltd (ACPL) as marine installation partner. The system is now open for capacity commitments. <\/p>\n
The \u201cIndia- Southeast Asia (I-2SEA)\u201d cable system, expected to be service-ready by Q4 2029, will serve the rapidly growing demand from hyperscalers, GPU infrastructure providers, and enterprises running AI training and inference workloads across the India-Southeast Asia corridor, said Lightstorm in a joint statement Tuesday. <\/p>\n
The cable system will have dual landings in India, with one at Machilipatnam providing the shortest subsea access to Hyderabad, and the other at a new landing location in South Chennai. <\/p>\n
The Lightstorm customers in this cable system will have the option of connecting into Lightstorm’s 30,000-plus km terrestrial network for seamless onward reach to Hyderabad, Mumbai, and more than 80 data centers nationwide. <\/p>\n
“As majority owner of I-2SEA and with SmartNet AI Fabric already delivering AI-ready transport across data centers and GPU clusters in India, we can now offer the natural extension of that platform into the subsea domain,\u201d said Amajit Gupta, group CEO & MD, Lightstorm. <\/p>\n
\u201cOn our network, AI regions across India, Malaysia, and Singapore will be connected by a single, purpose-built, end-to-end system, engineered for the performance and scale that AI infrastructure requires,\u201d Gupta added. <\/p>\n
The system will have a deep cable burial strategy that targets three-meter depth across the entire network for the buried sections to ensure a high level of protection and high uptime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Lightstorm, a homegrown carrier-neutral infrastructure solutions provider, has signed contracts with Microsoft, Singtel, and Tata Communications to launch a new submarine cable system linking Hyderabad and Chennai with Singapore and Malaysia. NEC Corporation has been appointed as system supplier and ASEAN Cableship Pte Ltd (ACPL) as marine installation partner. The system is now open for capacity commitments. The \u201cIndia- Southeast Asia (I-2SEA)\u201d cable system, expected to be service-ready by Q4 2029, will serve the rapidly growing demand from hyperscalers, GPU infrastructure providers, and enterprises running AI training and inference workloads across the India-Southeast Asia corridor, said Lightstorm in a joint […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1018515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-telecom"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1018515"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1018526,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018515\/revisions\/1018526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1018515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1018515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1018515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}