en.Wedoany.com Reported - Singapore-based neutral infrastructure solutions provider Lightstorm announced that it has signed contracts with Microsoft, Singtel, and Tata Communications to deploy a new submarine cable system connecting Hyderabad and Chennai in India to Singapore and Malaysia. Named the "India-Southeast Asia (I-2SEA)" cable, the system is expected to enter service in the fourth quarter of 2029.

NEC Corporation has been designated as the system supplier, with ASEAN Cableship Pte Ltd (ACPL) serving as the marine installation partner. The system is now open for capacity commitments. In a joint statement, Lightstorm noted that the cable system will meet the rapidly growing demand from hyperscale cloud providers, GPU infrastructure providers, and enterprises running AI training and inference workloads along the India-Southeast Asia corridor.

The cable system features two landing points in India: one in Machilipatnam, providing the shortest submarine route to Hyderabad, and another at a new landing point in South Chennai. Lightstorm customers on the system can access Lightstorm's over 30,000 km terrestrial network, seamlessly connecting to Hyderabad, Mumbai, and over 80 data centers nationwide.

Amajit Gupta, Group CEO and Managing Director of Lightstorm, stated that as the primary owner of I-2SEA and with SmartNet AI Fabric already providing AI-ready transport between Indian data centers and GPU clusters, the company can now naturally extend this platform to the submarine domain. Gupta added that AI regions in India, Malaysia, and Singapore will be connected through a single, dedicated end-to-end system designed for the performance and scale required by AI infrastructure.

The system will adopt a deep-buried cable strategy, with a target burial depth of three meters across the entire network to ensure high levels of protection and availability.