Keppel has been assigned five out of a total of 12 fibre pairs in Bifrost. These five fibre pairs are jointly owned by Keppel and its private fund co-investors through a 40-60 joint venture.
Keppel’s Bifrost Cable System which directly links Singapore to the US via Indonesia achieves “ready for service” status and will start carrying commercial traffic in the coming weeks.
According to Keppel, Bifrost is the world’s first subsea cable system directly linking Singapore to the West Coast of the USA through the Java sea and Celebes sea. It spans over 20,000 kilometres, and will offer a round-trip latency of just under 165 milliseconds, up to 10 milliseconds faster than existing systems.
