7,200 km · 8 Landing Points · 6 Countries · Ready for Service: 2027
| Length | 7,200 km |
|---|---|
| Status | Planned |
| Ready for Service | 2027 |
| Landing Points | 8 |
| Countries | 6 |
| Location |
|---|
| Bauang, Philippines |
| Changi, Singapore |
| Chung Hom Kok, China |
| Danang, Vietnam |
| Kuala Sedili, Malaysia |
| Lingshui, China |
| Luna, Philippines |
| Tungku, Brunei |
Monitored from 2026-03-02 through 2026-07-03 - live ICMP round-trip time measurements via our monitoring probes. All values below are recomputed daily from raw probe data. ✓ No anomalies detected in the monitored period.
| Probe | Location | Samples | Avg |
|---|---|---|---|
| #6982 | control probe | 32 | 140.6 ms |
| #6410 own probe | Sao Paulo BR | 19 | 333.7 ms |
| #6487 own probe | Singapore SG | 19 | 105.0 ms |
| #1014589 own probe | Almaty KZ | 19 | 256.3 ms |
| #4429 | control probe | 11 | 138.5 ms |
Asia Link Cable (ALC) is a planned regional submarine system running through the South China Sea. It spans about 7,200 km, with service expected around 2027, and is backed by a broad consortium of operators including China Telecom, China Unicom, Singtel, Telekom Malaysia, Globe Telecom, DITO and the Vietnamese carriers Viettel, VNPT and FPT Telecom.
ALC connects Chung Hom Kok in Hong Kong and Lingshui on Hainan to Danang in Vietnam, Bauang and Luna in the Philippines, Tungku in Brunei, Kuala Sedili in Malaysia and Changi in Singapore.
Hong Kong / Hainan ---- Vietnam ---- Philippines ---- Brunei ---- Malaysia ---- SingaporeALC links the two ends of the South-East Asian internet, the Hong Kong and Hainan gateways in the north and the Singapore hub in the south, with stops at the fast-growing markets of Vietnam, the Philippines and Brunei in between. Its strength is the breadth of its consortium: by bringing major Chinese, Singaporean, Malaysian, Filipino and Vietnamese carriers onto one cable, it secures committed demand and landing rights across the whole route.
With around a dozen owners, ALC is a classic many-carrier regional system rather than a single-company cable. That structure spreads cost and risk and ties the cable into the home networks of operators in every country it touches, which tends to make such systems durable and well-used once they are live.
Almost the entire route runs through the South China Sea, among the most cable-dense and heavily trafficked waters in the world. It is a conflict-adjacent zone where shipping, fishing and naval activity overlap with the cable corridors, so each new system adds capacity but also more seabed that has to be watched for damage.
Once ALC is live, GeoCables can monitor the many national paths that will lean on its segments and watch vessel activity over its corridor. With landings in eight places across a contested sea, ALC has many points where a fault can begin, and checks across its legs help show where trouble starts rather than just that it exists.
The consortium members, the landing points and the planned service window around 2027 are on record. The capacity, the supplier and the exact in-service date are not yet confirmed. Where a detail is not public, we mark it as unknown rather than guess.
| Status | ✓ Normal |
|---|---|
| Last checked | 2026-07-03 20:31 |
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