Hexa appoints GTA as landing party in Guam
Hexa Capital Consultancy PLT, owner of the Malaysia-U.S., MYUS, cable based in Malaysia, appointed GTA in Guam as its U.S. landing party for the MYUS cable system, GTA said in a press release.
The MYUS cable is being planned with a ready for service date of mid-2028.
MYUS will connect Malaysia and the U.S. directly for the first time with high-capacity fiber optic connectivity, increasing access to reliable and affordable digital services across Southeast Asia, GTA said.
The cable backbone will extend between the Malaysian Peninsula near Sedili to the U.S. territory of Guam at the new Alupang Cable Landing Station and Datacenter and then directly onward to Alaska Communications’ cable landing station in Florence, Oregon.
Along the path, MYUS will also connect Batam, Jakarta and Balikpapan in Indonesia, and Davao in the Philippines.
“The MYUS cable is being designed specifically to provide trusted and reliable direct fiber connectivity between these locations for large hyperscaler, cloud, content, telecom carrier and government customers,” according to Azhari Abang Hadari, PhD, the founder and CEO of Hexa.
Azhari, in a statement, said MYUS customers can be confident in the route design because it avoids the problems plagued by other existing undersea cables that transit contested waters in Southeast Asia.
He said the MYUS network provides efficient routing for lowest possible latency, and uses well-known, well-proven existing cable landing sites that have excellent up-time performance, as well as widely-available backhaul options for Hexa’s fiber pair owners.
“GTA in Guam is an obvious choice when we evaluated strategic partnerships in the U.S. Pacific Region with their long history of stable high performance network development,” he said.
GTA’s new cable landing facilities in Alupang Data Center will allow ready access to all of the major cable stations in the territory through GTA’s fiber network.
The Alupang Data Center facility was purpose built using the latest sustainable techniques both fronthaul and backhaul, GTA said. With access to 12 major submarine cable systems in the Asia Pacific region, Guam acts as a gateway to the United States, as well as a key regional interconnection point with other cables.
“We are proud to welcome MYUS to our state-of-the-art landing station within the Alupang Data Center,” GTA president and CEO Roland Certeza said in a statement. “Guam’s position as a key subsea hub ensures MYUS will benefit from seamless global connectivity, backed by multiple backhaul providers and access to emerging cable systems. Our proven expertise and local team will work closely with MYUS, reinforcing GTA’s role as a trusted partner in building the Pacific’s digital future.”
MYUS will be an open cable with 16 fiber pairs along its backbone. Hexa’s business model is to sell fiber pairs to long-term owners that will demand reliability, resilience and high performance of the cable to support their business growth.
Hexa’s selection of GTA as a partner builds on its strategy of planning globally and locally with strong, proven capable operators that can exceed the requirements of the most demanding customers, GTA added.
