News and updates from across the Pacific
Announcements, milestones and press coverage of Echo, Tabua and Topaz. Updates from the TPN team on LinkedIn. Landings, partnerships and new capacity coming into service across the Pacific.
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Echo lands in Singapore
Echo’s Singapore landing completes a second trans-Pacific route to Southeast Asia. The route avoids the South China Sea. End-to-end service is targeted for late 2026.
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Indigo to support TPN’s trans-Pacific subsea operations
TPN has appointed Indigo for operations support. This includes a 24/7 network operations centre covering provisioning, monitoring, security and service management.
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TPN selects Ciena technology for Echo and Tabua
Both systems will use Ciena’s WaveLogic 6 Extreme and 6500 Reconfigurable Line System. They will deliver terabit-class wavelengths, with commercial service in 2026.
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How the US is pushing China out of the internet’s plumbing
Experts say the subsea cable market risks dividing into eastern and western blocs. This comes amid fears of espionage and geopolitical tensions.
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Pilot project to replant mahogany in Barkers
TPN pledges to replant 165 mahogany trees at Barkers over three years. The pledge starts with 15 trees moved from a development site.
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That big orange ship in the bay is laying undersea fibre-optic cables that will stretch to Asia
Crews install Echo’s shore-end conduits on the Samoa Peninsula near Eureka. They feed a new data centre in Arcata.
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XL, Telkom begin work on Facebook-Google undersea data cables
XL Axiata begins building Echo’s landing station on the Karawang coast of West Java.
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This bears repeating: introducing the Echo subsea cable
Google introduces Echo, an express cable from Eureka to Singapore by way of Guam. It has a landing in Indonesia and takes a new route across the Pacific.
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Facebook and Google plan new undersea cables to connect Southeast Asia and America
The cables are named Echo and Bifrost. They will be first to directly connect North America to some of Indonesia’s main parts.
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Echo connects Eureka in California, Guam, Indonesia and Singapore
Echo’s architecture is designed for resilience. It takes a unique trans-Pacific route to Southeast Asia that avoids the crowded corridors.
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Why we chose Indigo: 3,500+ engineers in 90+ countries and a 24/7 US/UK NOC. Together they give TPN the operational backbone for Echo and Tabua from day one.
Lighting Echo and Tabua with Ciena: WaveLogic 6 Extreme and the RLS. They bring terabit-scale capacity to a Pacific network built for the AI and cloud era.
A closer look at Tabua: SubCom-built, with 16 fibre pairs. TPN owns a full pair end to end. PoPs are at Equinix Sydney, Los Angeles and San Jose.
A closer look at Echo: NEC-built, with 12 fibre pairs. TPN owns 3 end to end. Rings link Changi North to Equinix Singapore and Tanjung Pakis to two Jakarta PoPs. Rings also link Arcata to Equinix San Jose.
Two systems, ready in 2026: Echo and Tabua. Echo links Singapore and the US away from the South China Sea. Tabua adds an Australia–US route through Fiji and Hawaii. Both carry fibre-pair-scale capacity.