Converge ICT Solutions Inc. said Wednesday it expects to double its international bandwidth capacity by 2025 with two new submarine cables.
“By 2025, we will have an additional 10 terabits international bandwidth capacity as two international cable systems where we have capacity go onstream,” said Converge ICT co-founder and chief executive Dennis Anthony Uy.
“These are the Bifrost and SEA-H2X [South East Asia-Hainan-Hong Kong Express] cable systems,” he said.
The Bifrost cable system is a new trans-Pacific cable system connecting Singapore, Indonesia and the Philippines to the West Coast of North America.
The SEA H2X is a state-of-the-art, high-capacity fiber-optic submarine cable system that will address the increasing telecommunications traffic capacity demands within the region.
The SEA-H2X has six landing points in Southeast Asia including Hong Kong SAR (Tseung Kwan O), China (Lingshui), Malaysia (Kuching), Philippines (La Union), Singapore (Tuas) and Thailand (Songkhla).
“Our international backbone is now one of the biggest in the country, running at less than 50 percent utilization,” Uy said.
“We designed it that way so in case of fiber outage or submarine earthquakes customer experience will not be affected,” he said.
Converge has eight international links with a total capacity of 5.1 terabits and has points of presence in Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan, Japan and the US.
The company also laid out more than 700,000 kilometers of total fiber assets with eight million ports deployed and 20 landing stations nationwide.
“We’re reaching more than 16 million homes passed, covering 62.3 percent of total Filipino households. And we have over 2,000 satellites deployed for areas that cannot be reached by fiber,” Uy said.
“Our network is stronger and more resilient since we completed the redundancy loops. We are leveraging the best digital technology anchored on this network,” he said.
