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Inligo Networks will be attending SubOptic 2023 during the week of March 13-17 2023.

SubOptic 2023, the industry-renowned submarine telecoms conference, will be held in Bangkok, Thailand from 13-16 March 2023. A triennial event, the SubOptic conference is the longest running and most comprehensive conference series in the world for the submarine cable industry.

The event promises to be the best yet with a comprehensive world class agenda, an exhibition showcasing the latest subsea technologies and a multitude of networking opportunities. All set in the vibrant and exciting city of Bangkok, an Asian hub and gateway to the East.

Inligo Networks will be attending SubOptic 2023 during the week of March 13-17 2023.

Executive Team representatives from Inligo will be at the conference and are happy to meet partners and customers over the conference period and throughout the week.

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Capacity Asia 2022 is the Asia-Pacific Regions most senior connectivity conference, delivering holistic insight into digital infrastructure developments and trends.

Reunite with decision-makers from the entirety of Asia’s subsea, terrestrial, data centre, satellite, cloud and content ecosystem, and your international counterparts, to shape the future of our industry.

Inligo Networks will be attending Capacity Asia 2022 during the week of November 28th – 2nd December 2022. Management Team representatives will be at the conference and are happy to meet partners and customers over the conference period.

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Inligo Networks, a privately-owned designer, builder and operator of subsea telecommunications networks is pleased to announce the addition of a branching connection from its Asia Connect Cable (ACC-1) into Davao in the Philippines. Inligo’s ACC-1, which stretches from Singapore in the West to Los Angeles, USA in the East, will be one of the highest capacity subsea systems installed between Southeast Asia and the United States, providing much needed connectivity between the rapidly growing economies of Southeast Asia and the United States via an optimized southern route through the Java Sea.

ACC-1’s newest branching unit, which shall be referred to as the Davao branch, will be enabled by Inligo following the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with PLDT Inc. (PLDT), the Philippines’ largest fully integrated telecommunications carrier, at the recent Asia Carriers Conference held in the Philippines.

Partnering with the largest fully integrated telecommunications carrier in the Philippines

Under the MoU, Inligo and PLDT will negotiate the terms of the definitive agreements of the proposed landing opportunity in Davao, located in the southern Philippines. Based on the current discussions, PLDT will serve the Cable Landing Station (CLS) requirements of the Davao branch.

PLDT has been active in the subsea cable market, having recently inaugurated the Jupiter cable system, which connects the Philippines to Japan and USA. PLDT also has investments in the Asia Direct Cable system, which runs from Singapore through the South China Sea to Japan; and the APRICOT cable, which is planned to connect the Philippines to Japan, Singapore, Indonesia, Taiwan and Guam; and which are set to be completed in the next two years.

Inligo Networks Asia Connect Cable, enabling high-speed, low-latency connectivity.

Apart from ongoing discussions for the Davao branch, the ACC-1 provides a high level of intra-Asian and transpacific connectivity, with confirmed landings in Singapore, Batam, Jakarta, Makassar, Dili, Darwin, Manado, Guam and Los Angeles. Inligo Networks ACC-1 consists of a design capacity of approximately 256Tb, running via 16 fibre pairs and operating as an open cable system utilizing the next generation WSS ROADM technology – the next-generation Wavelength Division Multiplexing technology allowing highly flexible routing of capacity to any and between any point on the cable system.

Inligo Networks’ Commercial Director and Chief Revenue Officer, Simon ZETTL was quoted, “The Philippines is a significant growth market in terms of data consumption, creation and distribution, and having a mature and dynamic partner such as PLDT to assist us in supporting this growth is a partnership we are confident will bring long-term mutual benefits to both our organisations. We look forward to working with PLDT through this next phase of discussions.”

Inligo is excited to be working with such a dynamic company as PLDT, who clearly understands the critical importance of high speed, low latency connectivity in and out of the Philippines to continue to attract foreign investments, provide superior services to its consumer and enterprise customers, and provide the foundation for continued expansion and development of the rapidly growing data center industry.

According to Jojo Gendrano, SVP and Head of Enterprise and International Business Group at PLDT, “We are pleased to have this MOU with Inligo as they add a branching connection from the ACC-1 into Davao, because it is aligned with PLDT’s mission to make the Philippines the next hyperscaler destination of Asia-Pacific. PLDT Davao CLS where ACC-1 will land will be directly connected to PLDT’s robust domestic fiber optic cable facility and network of data centers across the country. We see this partnership as an opportunity to further enrich our connectivity ecosystem and strengthen the Philippines’ advantage as a strategic digital hub in the region.”

ACC-1’s landing in the southern city of Davao will provide the lowest latency cable path between Australia and the Philippines connecting via Darwin with an engineered round-trip latency of under 30 msecs. It will also provide the Philippines with an expected round-trip latency to Southern California of 135 msec.

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As part of their long-term objectives of the Digital Territory strategy, the Australian Northern Territory Government is keen to attract new investment into Darwin. Australia has the political stability required for a Data Centre hub, as well as a skilled IT workforce able to provide the necessary infrastructure skills in Darwin.

In the Asia Pacific (APAC) region there were originally three main centres for content and internet connectivity with Hong Kong, Singapore and Tokyo being the destinations for the majority of European and US traffic. As the internet and content has evolved, we have seen both Hong Kong and Singapore come under pressure, with Hong Kong due to political tensions between the US and China and Singapore as it simply runs out of power for new data centres which has led to the recent 3-year moratorium.  

Although the Singapore Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA) has now started to accept new Data Centre development applications, these have a new set of sustainability requirements being piloted and the total capacity allocated is still expected to be capped. With these limitations and the growing exodus from Hong Kong this has led to a search for new Data Centre hub locations in APAC.  

In Europe, the Middle East and to some extent the US we have seen new Data Centre hub locations emerge to serve the hyperscalers and other content providers. The integration of subsea cables and data centres has become even closer and there are various trends and requirements needed for any new hub locations.  

In the Asia-Pacific region is now seeing similar patterns, however we also need to understand what the ideal requirements are for a new hub location. 

Enter Darwin, Northern Territory

The first requirement for any new Data Centre hub location is political stability, ideally coupled with attractive tax breaks or concessions from local or national government.  Combined with the location there is the requirement for dependable cheap power, preferably from reliable green sources. 

The final ingredients in the mix are good connectivity with multiple fibre routes, both subsea and terrestrial as well as a trained IT workforce.  For hyperscalers and other users latency is also important to maintain their zones.    

The Philippines, Guam, Vietnam, Indonesia and Malaysia have all been cited as potential South East Asia Data Centre hub locations but a more obvious candidate is emerging with Darwin in Northern Australia becoming a front runner.

As part of their long-term objectives of the Digital Territory strategy, the Australian Northern Territory Government is keen to attract new investment into Darwin. Australia has the political stability required for a Data Centre hub, as well as a skilled IT workforce able to provide the necessary infrastructure skills in Darwin.

Darwin has recently seen an uptake in data centre activity. DCI Data Center have announced plans to build a new 10MW facility in the city called DRW01, while DXN acquired a data centre called Secure Data Centre. Fibre Expressway is also planning to build out a 20MW data centre as part of its new $1.5 billion Project Koete connectivity plan for North Western Australia.

Data Centre Players have keen interest in Darwin Location

NEXTDC Limited has announced plans to build a new state-of-the-art Tier III data centre in the Territory. D1 Darwin is an $80M USD critical infrastructure investment and will be located at 2 Harvey Street in the Darwin Central Business District.  Construction has begun in October 2022, with the creation of around 200 jobs and up to 25 positions once it is operational in mid-2023. D1 will house 1500 racks and support up to 8MW IT load. In addition, it will offer uninterrupted critical services to customers to support business, and an innovation centre providing collaborative spaces to support Territory technologies innovators, start-ups and high growth companies.  NEXTDC have already secured rights to a second location in the Wishart Estate for a future-planned second data centre (D2). 

With at least four new data centres planned, the remaining ingredients for success are green energy and fibre optic connectivity.  Dealing with green power, this has been a key driver for Data Centres in the Northern Hemisphere, normally from hydro, wind or thermal electricity sources.  In Darwin the Sun Cable project, or the Australia-Asia Power Link is planned to use a vast array of solar panel arrays with 17-20 GWp. The AAPowerLink project was envisaged to provide an interconnect from Darwin to Singapore and provide 15% of Singapore’s total electricity needs.

As well as providing this international power interconnect, the solar panel arrays could easily provide green power for the Data Centre hub business in Darwin, as well as supporting new domestic cable landing stations and local businesses. 

Ideally, a Data Centre hub will require multiple high-fibre count connectivity connections to other Data Centre hubs and centres of population.  At the moment Darwin only has limited domestic terrestrial fibre connectivity, but that situation is changing with Vocus investing $100 million USD in a 1,000 km subsea cable connecting Darwin to Perth, Jakarta and Singapore on the Australia Singapore Cable (ASC).

In the pipeline are at least two other international subsea cables with Hawaiki Nui planned to land in Darwin connecting onto Sydney and New Zealand.  However, the most exciting project is Inligo Networks Asia Connect Cable (ACC-1) which is planned to connect Darwin directly to Jakarta (plus a number of Indonesian cities) and Singapore going West, and to Guam, the Philippines and Los Angeles going East.  This 16-fibre pair system capable of 12-17 Tbps per fibre pair will be a major game changer for Darwin. The current plan is to start the ACC-1 project build in 2023 with completion by late 2025.

In addition to the three subsea cables landing in Darwin (and potentially at least two others) there are two new terrestrial fibre projects with Bevan Slattery’s HyperOne and Inligo Networks Project Unite connecting Darwin to the rest of Australia. Project Unite will be a 48-fibre pair system from Darwin to Adelaide and onto Melbourne and Sydney and will provide the lowest latency from both Sydney and Melbourne to Jakarta and Singapore.

All the elements for a successful South East Asia Data Centre hub in Darwin are there and the individual projects are in place to make this vision a reality by 2026.  Over one hundred and fifty years earlier another major engineering feat was completed with the Overland Telegraph Line connecting to the subsea telegraph cable to Singapore and onto India. By 2026 Darwin could once again become a major international communications hub for Australia.

References

1. Twenty to the Mile – The Overland Telegraph Line by Derek Pugh  
2. https://suncable.energy
3. https://hyper.one

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Capacity Europe is the continent’s largest telecoms networking conference and awards, which will take place in London & online on 18 – 20 October 2022. Celebrating its 22nd year, the event unites network operators, data centres, cloud providers, internet exchanges, content providers, satellite communities and more to network, trade and learn. 

Catch up with contacts and build new relationships with the businesses driving ICT infrastructure forwards, via both physical and virtual networking opportunities; get business done via an on-site and online exhibition, meeting rooms, social functions & more; and engage in c-level discussions on the conference programme, which covers everything from hyperscalers, 5G and digitisation, to the convergence of infrastructure communities and private capital investment in fibre.

Inligo Networks will be attending Capacity Europe 2022 during the week of 18 – 20 October 2022. Tim Gigg a Director of Inligo Networks will be at the conference and is happy to meet partners and customers over the conference period.

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Inligo Networks has taken the next step in its plan for an Asian – USA Cable network (ACC-1) by appointing its international sales partner, APTelecom.

APTelecom, an internationally recognized digital infrastructure consulting company, will be Inligo Networks’ international sales partner said the company.

Brian Evans, CEO of Inligo Networks, said: “APTelecom’s reach, and expertise spans a wide range
of global markets which are well aligned to the planned footprint of our network, and we are
pleased to engage their services as our international sales partner. The relationship will support
the onboarding of international capacity buyers and will also assist Inligo Networks in managing
the wide range of existing business opportunities we have for the Asia Connect Cable System”

The Inligo subsea cable network (ACC-1) announced earlier this year, will span just over 17,000 km with initial landing points in 8 key markets, including Australia, Indonesia, Singapore, Timor-Leste, Philippines, Guam, Hawaii, and continental USA.

In addition to the ACC-1 subsea network, Inligo is in parallel building an Australian terrestrial long-haul fibre
network called ‘Unite’ between Melbourne, Adelaide and Darwin which will directly connect with the ACC-1 Cable in Darwin, providing the lowest latency path between Australia and Southeast Asia.

Sean Bergin, President of APTelecom and Chairman of the PTC Board of Governors in Hawaii, said:
“The Asia – US route remains underserved despite recent announcements of other planned
transpacific cables. The unique value proposition offered by Inligo Networks will be well received
by the market”

About APTelecom:
APTelecom is an award-winning consulting firm founded in 2009 focused digital infrastructure consulting. APTelecom’s reach and expertise spans a wide range of emerging global markets. Among the company’s core offerings are outsourced fiber sales, due diligence, data center and strategic consulting services.

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The Asian Carriers Conference (ACC) is back – and the 2022 edition might be the best one yet. As the leading telecommunications event in the Asian region.

The Asian Carriers Conference (ACC) is attended by industry professionals to learn, network, and collaborate with a community of top industry executives, builders, leaders, and experts from all over the world.

This is an ideal platform for telecom players to learn, network, and strengthen their business partnerships through a series of exhibits, workshops, meeting discussions and unique networking opportunities.

Inligo Networks will attend the conference during the week of September 19th to 23rd 2022.

Our Executives Simon Zettl and Brian Evans will be in attendance and are happy to meet partners and customers over the conference period.

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Mr. Anthony Callanan – Chief Technical Officer for Inligo Networks, Presents Keynote regarding the Inligo Network at Submarine Networks World (SNW 2022) in Singapore

Inligo CTO Anthony Callanan presented a Keynote speech at SNW 2022 this week with a comprehensive summary of the Asia Connect Cable System as well as forthcoming projects.

The topics discussed in Mr. Callanan’s keynote included:

• The current capabilities and capacities of the Inligo Networks Asia Connect Cable System (ACC-1).
  • 256 T Capacity on Initial Completion
  • Next-Generation WSS ROADMS Flexibility
  • Shortest Path Routing, Providing Optimal Connectivity to Individual Customers.

• The increasing demand for bandwidth across the Asia-Pacific Region, as approximately half the world’s population currently resides in this region, however more than half of the content requested by users in the region comes from the US and Canada.
• Much of the commercial movement in the region is being dictated by environmental factors including climate change, limits on power space and the positioning of new sites.

Inligo Chairman, Brian Evans said:

Great to see our CTO – Anthony Callanan present a keynote on Inligo’s Asia Connect Cable System at Submarine Networks World [SNW 2022] in Singapore. The event has allowed Inligo to showcase our new system to the international submarine network community.

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Inligo Networks is delighted to announce the appointment of David Robertson to our Global Advisory Board.

David Robertson joins Inligo following a successful career as an Executive in Telstra’s International division. During his time at Telstra, David was Telstra’s Representative on the Boards of Southern Cross Cable Network and REACH, both companies having extensive subsea cable network assets.

David’s career spans over 35 years in the IT & Telecommunications industry in Australia and across the Globe for Telstra. His career initially commenced in the operational side of the business before leading the various sections of the engineering & IT organisations. He has driven engineering innovation programs in key emerging areas within the Subsea Cables, Optical, IP/Ethernet, Security, Programmable Networks, Software Defined Networks and Network & IT Automation. A deep technical thinker with a strong ability to relate to technical engineers and the challenges they are facing while always looking at alternative ways to work to the desire outcome.

In his role as leading all Engineering and IT for Telstra International, David drove the global business to meet the unprecedented capacity demands, geo-political challenges and regulatory changes across Telstra International infrastructure during a period of reducing capex and opex expenditure. His style of strategically working with the industry lead to many innovations across the business that shifted the needle on how Telstra engineered and operated Internationally.

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Inligo Networks Pte Ltd will attend the 25th edition of Submarine Networks World 2022 as an associate sponsor on September 7 and 8 at the Suntec Convention Centre, Singapore.

Chief Technology Officer, Mr. Anthony Callanan will keynote our Asia Connect Cable Project (ACC-1), a new subsea cable system under way connecting Singapore with Los Angeles via Guam.   

Inligo will present an overview of our international cable project to the forum attendees on day one as a participating member of the Keynote segment. 

Also Inligo Networks members attending the conference include:

Chief Executive Officer Mr. Brian Evans,

Chief Revenue Officer Mr. Simon Zettl,

Advisory Board Member Mr. David Robertson.

The executive team will be available for meetings throughout the conference duration both in Meeting Room 6 for in-person discussions and around the floors.  

Mr. Evans will also participate in a panel discussion during the day two agenda.

Inligo Networks is a private subsea cable operating company designing and building new cable systems in Asia and the Pacific.

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The owner of Sacom Timor-Leste company, Abílio Araújo, has committed to bringing a subsea fibre optic cable from Singapore to Timor-Leste.

After meeting with President José Manuel Ramos-Horta at Presidential Palace, Thursday (23 June 2022), Araújo said Sacom TL and their partner Inligo Networks met with the President to speak about economic development in Timor-Leste, particularly looking at what the Sacom Group can contribute in terms of [reducing] poverty and developing the country.

Sacom, together with their partner Inligo Networks, have developed a new company called Sacomtel TL, which has just received approval for work in the area of subsea cables. The Council of Ministers, through the 8th Government, and the National Communications Authority have approved this.

“I brought my partner Inligo Networks. This company has already developed subsea cables in many places and this investment is over USD800 million. A subsea cable will go from Singapore, through the Java Sea to Alor, then from there it will go east and come down to Darwin,” Araújo told journalists after meeting with President Ramos-Horta.

Sacomtel TL’s investment in the subsea cable is 100% private and the subsea cable will be linked to the Inligo group’s international cable which is called Asia Connect Cable (ACC). A company called OceanIQ has arrived in Timor to prepare for location [for the cable].

Companies from around the world to come and keep their data in Timor. In the Asia Pacific region the country with the biggest Data Centre is Singapore, and now Singapore is at capacity because there is not enough energy in Singapore to add a new Data Centre.

“This new investment will develop the digital economy in Timor and we can become a centre for data, which will put Timor in the right place in the world,” Araújo said.

Sacom Timor-Leste Owner, Abílio Araújo

Ramos-Horta was happy to hear about the new Sacomtel efforts and speak about developments in the future. He also invited Araujo to accompany him on an official visit to Indonesia in July.

Inligo Networks representative, Simon Zettl, said their role is to work with Sacom TL to connect the subsea cable to Timor-Leste. [He said] they will offer good technology services to help strengthen the foundations of technology in Timor-Leste.

Inligo Networks Commercial Director Simon Zettl

Planning for the ACC-1 International Subsea Cable is well underway and when completed will provide Timor Leste with direct international connectivity across Asia and into the USA and Australia.

With: Sacom no Enligo Network Sei Dada Fibra Óptika husi Singapura ho Investimentu Millaun $800 – Lais, Atuál & Konfiável – Hatutan.com

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Inligo Networks has signed a global master agreement with Equinix out of the Asia Pacific Region.

The agreement with Equinix Data Centres Asia provides much needed space and power capacity for the Inligo ACC-1 cable system landing in Singapore.

The agreement allows for Inligo to split its footprint in Singapore across Equinix and our landing partner data centre to assist with managing availability into Singapore from multiple entry points.

The Equinix data centre campus in Singapore is connected to 14 key submarine cable systems, including ACC-1, underscoring the Equinix’s long-term commitment to Singapore’s Digital Hub ambitions.

Equinix emerged as the partner of choice for us due to its entrenched global footprint, as well as its extensive ecosystems of major network and cloud service providers that facilitate the connectivity necessary to maximize outcomes in today’s digital world. With Singapore’s status as a gateway to Asia-Pacific, we look forward to working with Equinix to deliver optimal functionality and value for fast-digitalizing organizations and economies throughout the region.

Simon Zettl, Chief Commercial Officer, Inligo Networks

Equinix has the most network-dense data centres in Singapore that house more than 215 international and regional networks connecting South Asia. Its Singapore data centres are business hubs for more than 780 companies, including 155 enterprises.

Customers can interconnect directly with other customers and partners in their digital supply chain and leverage direct connectivity to more than 220 cloud and IT service providers.

The Inligo Asia Connect Cable (ACC-1) will provide low latency high capacity telecommunications capacity between Equinix Data Centres in Singapore, Japan, Australia and the USA

Currently, Equinix has 240 IBX data centres in 66 metros across 27 countries around the world. In Asia-Pacific, it operates 52 IBX data centres in Singapore, Australia, China, Hong Kong, India, Japan and Korea.

Inligo Networks chose to take capacity in partnership with Equinix at Singapore’s SG facility due in part to the Singapore Building and Construction Authority’s (BCA) Green Mark Platinum Certification for its leading-edge sustainable design and practices at SG5.

The expanded capacity of SG5 allows us to serve the rising demand for digital infrastructure that is foundational to power Singapore’s transformation as a regional digital hub. This enhances Singapore’s position as Southeast Asia’s premier business and technology hub, empowering public and private stakeholders with the capabilities necessary for innovation, participation, and success in the digital economy. The BCA Green Mark Platinum certification is a testament to our ability to build sustainable data centres, which is in line with the government’s National Green Plan 2030 and Smart Nation agenda.

Yee May Leong, Managing Director, Equinix South Asia

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Inligo Network prepared for increased demand with bold strategy in Northern Territory

Economists say the Territory’s close proximity to South-East Asia offers Darwin an unparalleled opportunity to close the gap between the Australian and booming Asian digital economies.

In the past year, Vocus, Hawaiki and Inligo Networks have announced new international digital connections linking Darwin to South-East Asia and North America.

These new high-speed, secure information highways will see the Territory taking a leading role in Australia’s digital economy and help unlock Darwin as a major new data hub for the Asia-Pacific region.

Vocus’ Darwin-Jakarta-Singapore cable will be the first direct fibre link between Darwin and Singapore with installation starting this year and operational by mid-2023.

Asia Connect Cable to provide direct international capacity

The Inligo Network Asia Connect Cable System (ACC-1) is the Territory’s third cable connection to Singapore, with links to Indonesia, East Timor, Guam, Japan and the United States.

The $700 million Inligo subsea optical cable begins roll-out this year and is complemented by Inligo Networks new $200 million terrestrial cable Unite, which will connect Darwin and Adelaide, then potentially to Melbourne, Canberra and Sydney.

These major investments in new lightning-fast fibre cables come at the same time as a commitment from two Australian companies, NEXTDC and DCI, to establish world-class data centres in Darwin.

Establishment of new Data Centres in Darwin

This year, NEXTDC begins construction of its $100 million data centre in the Darwin CBD.

The Darwin data centre – to be known as D1 – will bring world-class global best practice for cloud and digital services access, enabling Territory businesses and communities to access the full potential of NEXTDC’s ecosystem, as well as world leading, security, resilience, and sustainable operations.

The facility has a targeted IT load of at least eight megawatts and will have direct access to Darwin’s major undersea cable and inter-capital infrastructure.

About 200 jobs are expected to be created during construction and 20 during operation.

NEXTDC have also secured a first right of refusal over a second Darwin site for their D2 facility to further boost the region’s long-term technology infrastructure needs, including a hyperscale campus catering to the emerging South Asia region and the NT’s growing subsea cable connectivity.

DCI also plans to build a data centre in Darwin as part of its global expansion strategy, with an IT load of 10 megawatts.

DCI chief executive Malcolm Roe says: “Darwin is the command hub in the north for Australian defence and coastal border forces, and hosts significant US Defense technical and aerial assets.

“The rapidly growing space sector is also seeing organisations such as NASA and other global players establishing a presence in the Territory.

“This is all in addition to the existing mining, agriculture, and tourism sectors.”

“These industries require secure ICT infrastructure, so it makes perfect sense for us to increase our footprint to include the NT.”

Global internet traffic surged by more than 40 percent in 2020 as a result of increased video streaming, video conferencing, online gaming and social networking.

This growth comes on top of rising demand for digital services over the past decade; since 2010, the number of internet users worldwide has doubled, while global internet traffic has expanded 15-fold.

The Asia Connect and Unite Cable systems will link data centres in Darwin to international and domestic destinations on higher capacity lower latency network based services. The Asia Connect Cable will have one of the lowest latency paths between Southeast Asia and the United States, but it’s path from Southeast Asia to Darwin, from Japan to Darwin and Darwin to the USA will be one of the lowest in the region.

We expect the level of customer demand for data services in Darwin to rise considerably over the next few years as planned data centres in Darwin come on stream and demand for a shorter latency path between Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney and Asia are sought by customers.

Mr. Anthony Callanan, Chief Technology Officer, Inligo Networks

Inligo Networks is preparing for the demand upswing with several high capacity fibre pairs to connect Darwin from both the International and Domestic segments.

Market analysis has capacity demand between Australasia and Asia increasing by seven times before the end of this decade. Inligo Networks is well placed to provide that much needed capacity and the highest capacity into Darwin of any international cable system.

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Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison and Inligo Networks announce both parties will partner to build a high-capacity fibre-optic telecommunication submarine cable system, Inligo Networks Asia Connect Cable System or ACC-1.

The partnership between Inligo and Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison supports their vision to become the most preferred digital telecommunications of Indonesia by developing a new low-latency and high-capacity data network through fibre optic cables, connecting multiple Indonesian cities to Australia, Guam, Singapore, and the United States through Indonesian waters on the 18,000 km system.

The partnership comes as Indonesia accelerates its digital transformation efforts, including achieving Indonesia Merdeka Sinyal 4G by the end of 2022, where 4G services will be available in all regions across Indonesia, including in the 3G areas, while expanding 5G networks as the foundation for future solutions. The construction of the Asia Connect Cable System (ACC-1), which will provide up to a 240 Tbps network throughout the system, will allow Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison to provide a broader network, especially for eastern Indonesia, and increase network capacity for Business-to-Consumer (B2C) and Business-to-Business (B2B) services throughout Indonesia.

Chief Technology Officer of Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison, Desmond Cheung, said, “This partnership allows Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison to be an exclusive landing partner for the Inligo Submarine network, providing high-capacity connectivity within Indonesia and the rest of the Pacific region, including the potential to reduce costs in developing advanced connectivity reaching the eastern part of Indonesia and increase our incremental revenue in wholesale telecommunication services. The partnership is also in line with our long-term commitment in accelerating Indonesia’s digital transformation agenda as we believe it must be underpinned by a sophisticated submarine cable system like the ACC-1.”

Affairs and Fisheries Number 14 of 2021 on the Submarine Pipelines and Cable Systems. The law regulates how a foreign company must partner with an Indonesian licensed telecommunications company in establishing the international submarine networks through Indonesian territory. The law contains a list of 43 underwater pipeline segments, 217 underwater cable line segments, and 209 BMH (Beach Main Hole), including four designated landing stations located in Batam, Kupang, Manado, and Jayapura.

The Inligo Networks ACC-1 mega project will begin construction in 2022, with the first route connecting Singapore, Batam, and Jakarta. In mid-2023, subsea telecommunications cables will be constructed from Medan, Makassar, Kupang, Dili (Timor Leste) to Darwin (Australia), followed by the construction from Manado, to Guam by the end of 2023. The project is expected to be completed in 2024, connecting Guam to Los Angeles (United States), and fully connecting Southeast Asia, Australia, the Pacific, and the United States.

Chairman of Inligo Networks, Brian Evans, said, “Indonesia has a great opportunity to become a digital powerhouse of Southeast Asia. Our collaboration with Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison will drive better connectivity and functionality within Indonesia, across Southeast Asia, and the Pacific region. As a submarine cable network plays a vital part in connecting the Indonesian archipelagos, the partnership will increase data traffic, facilitate data transfer, internet access, and cloud storage which has now become an integral part of increasingly digital society and digital nations.”

“Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison has the competitive advantage to attract more strategic partners across industries to drive collaborations that create more business opportunities and accelerate Indonesia’s digital transformation. We believe that this partnership is aligned with our mission to deliver world-class digital experiences, connecting and empowering every Indonesian,” concluded Desmond.

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Startup fibre carrier says its plans for a national fibre network were prompted by a lack of existing capacity and a reality that there is no justification for connecting Darwin to its planned South East Asian to United States network if it could not haul multiple terabits from there to the population centres of south eastern Australia.

As exclusively reported last week, Inligo is planning two cable systems: Asia Connect, which will link Singapore and the United States via major population centres of Indonesia, Timor Leste and Darwin, Australia as well as Unite, initially a Darwin-Adelaide connection later to expand to east coast capitals.

In an interview with CommsDay, Inligo chief commercial officer Simon Zettl said: “We realised that with the demand we were serving to Guam and the US that we were dropping approximately 32 terabits into Darwin. But Darwin at present, has very limited capacity to the southern states, and we were surprised by what was there. There were really only two options and they’re both getting fairly long in the tooth and not able to provide that capacity that datacentre operators are going to be requiring.”

“We then started talking with some local partners around interest in a Darwin- Adelaide link, as phase one, because Adelaide has good connectivity already. So we thought if we could get the traffic to Adelaide, there’s still a very low latency, efficient path, that would help. And then phase two will be Adelaide to Sydney, and then Adelaide to Melbourne.”

Zettl said the completed system will shave 15% off the latency from Sydney to Singapore compared to using existing options.

“The design that we have and the technology we’re using will allow Customers to configure traffic all on the one platform. So it will be a homogenous platform all the way from Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide backing out through to Jakarta, Singapore, Los Angeles and Tokyo. We’re putting them together because whilst ACC-1 is the foundation cable, we’re constantly looking at what makes sense and what is very complementary to that system that gives customers more functionality and more optionality.”

Zettl also explained the strategy behind running the US link through the Java Sea and the plan to land in multiple destinations in Indonesia, namely Medan, Batam, Jakarta, Makassar and Manado.

“The Java Sea route was originally conceived to provide a path from Singapore but we always wanted to connect to Darwin and give Australia a north-bound connection stretching into the global network and also to connect Timor-Leste, because Timor- Leste is only serviced by satellite connections which are expensive and fraught with reliability issues, you know, being in the tropics,” Zettl explained.

“Last year the Indonesian government saw the inquiries around cables running through the Java Sea, so they announced a decree whereby all the cables coming in had to round in a number of specified sites within Indonesia, effectively north, south, east, west rounding points,” he continued.

“So that drove our cable path from Singapore into Batam, through to Jakarta. We went to Makassar because of the shift in the Indonesia capital from Jakarta to just north of Balikpapan (the new capital is called Nusantara), as we wanted to make sure we were capable of accommodating a connection into Balikpapan.”

EXECUTIVE TEAM BOOST

Zettl says Inligo’s south east Asia smarts have been bolstered by the appointment of two new board members with deep international experience. John Thompson is a former president & CEO of J-Phone Hokkaido in Japan, CTO of Vodafone Japan (now Softbank Mobile), CTO of Indosat Ooredoo Indonesia, CTO of Cable and Wireless Worldwide as well as senior roles in Vodafone Group and Bharti Airtel in India and Vodafone Germany. Most recently he was advisor to the CEO and CTO of XL Axiata in Indonesia. Tim Gigg had a career in global telecommunications companies such as Vodafone, FLAG Telecom (now GCX) and Global Crossing (Lumen).

Zettl himself has a background at Matrixx Software, BT and Vodafone Global Enterprise while Inligo executive director Brian Evans is best known as the former head of Digital River Networks and was most recently at Telstra.

The key question with Inligo regards the source of its funding with the system set to require the best part of a billion dollars. The company has hinted that it will be making announcements on this front shortly.

Source: Commsday

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Inligo Networks is delighted to announce the appointment of Tim Gigg to our board.

Tim Gigg joins the Inligo Networks Board of Directors following a successful career in global telecommunications companies such as Vodafone, FLAG Telecom(now GCX) and Global Crossing (Lumen). He is also a Non-Executive Director of Ontix, which is a start-up “infrastructure as a service” company deploying connectivity for small cells and fixed wireless access across the UK.

Previously, he served in the British Army, where he reached the senior rank of Lieutenant Colonel in the Royal Corps of Signals.   As part of his recent work, he has been involved on new submarine cable builds in the Mediterranean, Africa and the Caribbean.  He has also been  a consultant for terrestrial fibre infrastructure programmes, FTTH roll-outs, Data Centre connectivity and Enterprise WANs.  

As Head of International Transport Programmes within Vodafone Group, he led the integration of Vodafone’s global capacity requirements for the Vodafone operating companies. He also deployed to West Africa for 15-months to help lead an operational turn-around in Ghana Telecom when it was acquired by Vodafone for both their mobile and broadband services, as well as the build of a new national terrestrial fibre network.  

From 2002 to 2008, Tim was the Vice President Operations at FLAG Telecom (now GCX) responsible for their global operational teams and operation and delivery of their global network and prior to that worked as Vice President Networks Operations at Global Crossing UK where he was responsible for managed services.  

Tim is a Chartered Engineer and holds a BSc (Engineering) degree.  In 2008 he was elected as a Fellow of the Institute of Engineering Technology (IET) where he takes an active part in advising and mentoring potential Chartered Engineer candidates.

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Inligo’s $700m (USD) subsea optical cable system linking Australia, Asia and the United States will land in Darwin – bringing with it infrastructure and jobs.

Melbourne telecommunications infrastructure company Inligo Networks has finalised negotiations with the Territory Government to land the cable into Darwin.

Although a landing site has not yet been finalised, it is expected to be between Darwin High School and the Darwin Ski Club.

The Asia Connect Cable (ACC-1) System will link Singapore, Indonesia, Timor Leste, Australia and the west coast of the United States via Guam, with connections in Japan.

As part of Inligo Network’s plan to provide low latency, high-capacity digital connectivity for Darwin, the company will build a new $200m terrestrial cable linking Darwin to Adelaide.

It will deliver onward seamless connections to Melbourne, Canberra and Sydney providing the high speed, high-capacity connectivity needed to support the development of additional data centre investments in Darwin.

The capacity to provide new low latency, high capacity services directly between Australia and the US will position Darwin as the major telecommunications hub between Australia, Indonesia and Singapore, surpassing longer and less direct routes via Perth.

With 16 fibre pairs capacity and running the latest optical technology, ACC-1 will be one of the highest capacity commercial subsea fibre projects in the region.

The network design has been completed and landing partners agreed, and Inligo Networks is due to commence construction in the first half of this year.

Chief Minister Michael Gunner said the government had worked closely with Inligo to support the cable landing into Fannie Bay as well as providing support to ensure the domestic cable system segments connect to communities and businesses. “It’s incredibly exciting to be announcing Darwin’s connection into the fastest growing data market in the world,” Mr Gunner said.

“Driving digital investment in Darwin will future proof our job market and strengthen industry. It means jobs today, but also new and exciting digital opportunities into the future for Territory kids.”

NT Chief Minister – Michael Gunner

Source: https://subtelforum.com/australian-subsea-start-up-to-build-transpacific-cable/

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Inligo Networks is delighted to announce the appointment of John Thompson to the board.

John Thompson is a non-executive Director at Inligo Networks with over 30 years’ experience in Mobile and Fixed Telecom Operators across Asian and European markets with 20 of those at CTO level.

His former roles include President & CEO of J-Phone Hokkaido in Japan, CTO of Vodafone Japan (now Softbank Mobile), CTIO of Indosat Ooredoo Indonesia, CTO of Cable and Wireless Worldwide as well as senior roles in Vodafone Group and Bharti Airtel in India and Vodafone Germany.

In Vodafone Group John led the consolidation of Vodafone’s European Fibre, IP and Data Centre Networks in 14 countries, the creation of a pan-European network and the consolidation of Vodafone and Cable and Wireless’s global submarine, satellite and terrestrial networks.

Most recently following his time at Indosat Ooredoo in Jakarta, John was advisor to the CEO and CTO of XL Axiata in Indonesia and he now works as an independent advisor in Telecoms principally for Operators in South East Asia having worked on projects in Australia, Malaysia, Singapore, Myanmar and Vietnam.

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A NEW $700m subsea optical cable system linking Australia, Asia and the United States will land in Darwin – bringing with it infrastructure and jobs.

Melbourne telecommunications infrastructure company Inligo Networks has finalised negotiations with the Territory Government to land the cable here.

Although a landing site has not yet been finalised, it is expected to be between Darwin High School and the Darwin Ski Club.

The Asia Connect Cable (ACC-1) System will link Singapore, Indonesia, Timor Leste, Australia and the west coast of the United States via Guam, with connections in Japan.

As part of Inligo Network’s plan to provide low latency, high-capacity digital connectivity for Darwin, the company will build a new $200m terrestrial cable linking Darwin to Adelaide.

It will deliver onward seamless connections to Melbourne, Canberra and Sydney providing the high speed, high-capacity connectivity needed to support the development of additional data centre investments in Darwin.

The capacity to provide new low latency, high capacity services directly between Australia and the US will position Darwin as the major telecommunications hub between Australia, Indonesia and Singapore, surpassing longer and less direct routes via Perth.

With 16 fibre pairs capacity and running the latest optical technology, ACC-1 will be one of the highest capacity commercial subsea fibre projects in the region.

The network design has been completed and landing partners agreed, and Inligo Networks is due to commence construction in the first half of this year.

Chief Minister Michael Gunner said the government had worked closely with Inligo to support the cable landing into Fannie Bay as well as providing support to ensure the domestic cable system segments connect to communities and businesses. “It’s incredibly exciting to be announcing Darwin’s connection into the fastest growing data market in the world,” Mr Gunner said.

“Driving digital investment in Darwin will future proof our job market and strengthen industry. It means jobs today, but also new and exciting digital opportunities into the future for Territory kids.”

NT Chief Minister – Michael Gunner

Source: https://www.ntnews.com.au/business/nt-business/investment-jobs-and-data-after-government-secures-cable-deal/news-story/15d5e071714b1d7bda36596e2822f56d

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Inligo Networks (Inligo) announces its Asia Connect Cable System will land in Darwin Australia with a planned capacity of over 50 TB/sec. The landing decision and associated investment has been made after many months of working closely with the Northern Territory Government and its Investment Territory Team.

The investment will see Inligo land the ACC1 cable system into Darwin and the construction of a new purpose built Cable Landing Station (CLS) to the north of the Central Business District. Further, Inligo will directly connect several Data Centres in Darwin into the cable system.

The Cable Landing Station will also provide a termination point for the Unite Cable System seamlessly connecting Darwin with Adelaide and providing terrestrial connections for customers in South Australia and the Northern Territory for Stage 1.

The cable system once completed, together with our domestic cable system in the NT, will provide much needed low latency international capacity for the Northern Territory’s major organisations in Education, Space, Defence and other related industries.

By connecting the system into existing and emerging data centres in both the Northern Territory and South Australia, a much anticipated shorter link to Asia and the USA without the need to send telecommunications traffic via Western Australia and/or Sydney becomes a reality.

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