Superloop aims to boost Hong Kong’s role as regional data centre hub with submarine cable system
Infrastructure part of Australian network services provider’s US$34m high-capacity, 110 kilometre-long fibre optic network across the city
Australian telecommunications network services provider Superloop aims to help buttress Hong Kong’s position as a data centre hub in the Asia-Pacific, following its launch on Friday of the first fibre-optic submarine cable system to connect the Tseung Kwan O Industrial Estate and Chai Wan.
The high-capacity, 2.8-kilometre TKO Express cable system will help “enhance the competitiveness” of the city by meeting demand for a low-latency and fully diverse route between Hong Kong island and the industrial estate, where the market’s largest concentration of advanced data centres are located, said Superloop Hong Kong country manager Susana Halliday at a press conference on Friday.
“It provides an infrastructure ... that could possibly attract more customers to that area,” she said.