News Summary:
SubCo recently announced its new direct submarine cable system, APX East, connecting Australia and the US mainland, with a Ready for Service (RFS) target of Q4 2028. This system is designed to deliver high-capacity, low-latency connectivity for hyperscalers, neoclouds, and carriers. Previously, on January 30, 2026, SubCo’s SMAP subsea cable made landfall in Sydney, Australia, at the beachside suburb of Maroubra. Earlier, on January 29, 2026, the Indigo West subsea cable, which stretches from Singapore to Perth, Australia, through Jakarta, underwent repairs, with an industry insider reporting that a cable ship fixed one fault, but discovered another in shallow water. On January 26, 2026, SubCo participated in a panel at PTC’26, alongside Nvidia and Zayo, discussing how the shift of AI workloads from centralized training to distributed inference is making connectivity latency and scale in terrestrial and subsea fibre networks critical constraints. That same day, a discussion exploring SubCo's future APX East project highlighted the evolving international connectivity strategies driven by rising data traffic from AI workloads and a demand for outage resilience.