Round-trip time between cities on routes through this region, from RIPE Atlas. Latency above the probes’ measured baseline can have many causes; it is never treated as proof of a cable fault.
Narrow passages where many cables share one route, so a single anchor drag or seabed event can damage several at once. Counts are cables whose published route crosses a line drawn across the passage.
Between Peninsular Malaysia and Sumatra, linking the Indian Ocean with Singapore.
PEACE Cable, SeaMeWe-4, SeaMeWe-5, MIST, India Asia Xpress (IAX), i2i Cable Network (i2icn) and 2 more · 2 planned
Between Singapore and Indonesia’s Riau Islands, where routes from the Indian Ocean, East Asia and Australia meet.
EAC-C2C, Asia-America Gateway (AAG) Cable System, APCN-2, Echo, Apricot, Southeast Asia-Japan Cable 2 (SJC2) and 13 more · 7 planned
Between Taiwan and the Philippines, used by routes between the South China Sea and the Pacific.
EAC-C2C, Asia-America Gateway (AAG) Cable System, APCN-2, Southeast Asia-Japan Cable 2 (SJC2), Asia Pacific Gateway (APG), Asia Direct Cable (ADC) and 4 more · 2 planned
The longest cables in service with part of their route in this region.
Cables are listed when any part of their route crosses the region. Routes are approximate. Cable data © TeleGeography, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0.