India’s Tata Communications will make an strategic $152 million investment in subsea cable infrastructure to expand the India-Singapore digital corridor with an additional 98 terabits per second of AI-ready capacity.
In a statement on Tuesday, Tata Communications said the investment can help address the growing demand for bandwidth and AI-driven data across Asia and globally.
The India-Singapore subsea route can become one of the world’s most critical digital corridors, with more than 35 percent of global internet traffic currently routed on-net through Tata Communications’ global network. The investment will improve network diversity, resilience, and low-latency connectivity to support enterprise, cloud, and hyperscaler traffic driving Asia’s digital economy, AI, cloud computing, and data-intensive applications across the region, according to Tata Communications.
The investments include integrating a new subsea cable system between Mumbai and Singapore, and investing as a consortium member in a new subsea cable system connecting Chennai to Singapore. The cable system can get ready for service in the fourth quarter of 2029.
The cable systems will connect with Tata Communications’ India terrestrial fiber network for onward connectivity to more than 100 data centers nationwide. Combined with the company’s global TGN subsea network, the investments can enhance its IZO connectivity solutions, including IZO DC Dynamic Connectivity and IZO Multi-cloud Connectivity, providing self-healing, always-on, and self-provisioning capabilities across data center and cloud ecosystems.
Genius Wong, Executive Vice President of Core and Next-Gen Connectivity Services and Chief Technology Officer at Tata Communications, said the investments reinforce the company’s commitment to building future-ready digital infrastructure at scale, strengthening the reliability, scalability, and performance of connectivity solutions across one of the world’s busiest digital corridors, while reinforcing India’s position as a digital hub.
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