Bharti Airtel unveils major partnership for 2Africa Pearls subsea cable
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31 March 2025
Bharti Airtel has announced its role as the landing partner for the 2Africa Pearls subsea cable in India. This ambitious project aims to establish a comprehensive network linking Africa, India, and Europe through the Middle East, significantly bolstering international connectivity.
The 2Africa Pearls cable is poised to deliver an impressive capacity of over 100Tbps to India, thereby enhancing Airtel's global network and supporting the country's aspirations for digital growth. This partnership is a collaboration that also includes 2Africa Pearls’ investors, center3 and Meta, both of which bring significant expertise and resources to the project. The 2Africa Pearls cable is part of the more extensive 2Africa cable system, which will cover more than 45,000km across Asia, Africa, and Europe, strengthening the digital backbone of these regions.
Find out more Microsoft to launch first cloud region in Malaysia by mid-2025
24 March 2025
Microsoft has announced plans to establish its first cloud region in Malaysia, comprising three data centres located in the greater Kuala Lumpur area.
This initiative is part of the company's significant investment of US$2.2 billion in Malaysia, aimed at enhancing the country's capabilities in cloud computing and artificial intelligence (AI).
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Maxis selects Nokia to upgrade DC infrastructure
05 March 2025
Maxis has selected Nokia to upgrade its data centre infrastructure in support of its future growth plans.
Nokia said that the modernisation project would simplify Maxis’ network operations, enable faster issue resolution, and automate workloads, all within a robust and secure infrastructure. Nokia will deploy its latest routers and switches across multiple Maxis data centres.
Find out more Bangkok-London connectivity under the microscope
26 February 2025
Telehouse Thailand, HGC Global Communications Limited (HGC), and AMS-IX (Amsterdam Internet Exchange) have joined forces to enhance infrastructure and connectivity between Bangkok and London. This collaboration is set to optimize content flow between Asia and Europe, streamlining cross-continent peering and traffic exchange.
The newly established transmission infrastructure by HGC will bridge the capacity gap between continents by leveraging Telehouse Bangkok and Telehouse London. This initiative will enable uninterrupted cross-border content access and add to peering across AMS-IX Bangkok and AMS-IX Amsterdam. Additionally, customers within both locations will benefit from direct, virtual circuits without the need to activate any individual transmission layers.
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