The cable is targeted to be Ready-for-Service in Q4 2029.
Lightstorm, a Singapore-based AI connectivity platform, has signed agreements with Microsoft, Singtel and Tata Communications to build a brand-new submarine cable system connecting India, Malaysia and Singapore.The cable system, to be named I-2SEA, is designed from the ground up to serve the rapidly growing demand from hyperscalers, GPU infrastructure providers, and enterprises running AI training and inference workloads across the India–Southeast Asia corridor.I-2SEA will link India’s East Coast which includes the fast-growing AI and hyperscaler data centre clusters in Hyderabad and Chennai directly to Singapore, the region’s preeminent cloud interconnect and AI hub, and Malaysia’s emerging data centre corridor at Kuala Lumpur.“The cable system will have dual landings in India, with one at Machilipatnam providing the shortest subsea access to Hyderabad, and the other at a new diverse landing location in South Chennai,” a Lightstorm statement said here on Thursday.The Lightstorm customers in this cable system will have the option to connect to Lightstorm’s 30,000 km terrestrial network for seamless onward reach to Hyderabad, Mumbai, and over 80 data centres in the country.Targeted to be Ready-for-Service in Q4 2029, this high-capacity cable, with an estimated total length of 3,600 km from Singapore to Machilipatnam, will provide onward connectivity to Hyderabad when coupled with Lightstorm’s low-latency backhaul network in India.It is expected to deliver the fastest transmission of any cable on the ingapore/Malaysia–Hyderabad corridor, the most strategically critical city pair for AI workloads in the region.“On our network, AI regions across India, Malaysia, and Singapore will be connected by a single, purpose-built, end-to-end system — engineered for the performance and scale that AI infrastructure requires,” Amajit Gupta, Group CEO & MD, Lightstorm, said.Published on July 2, 2026
