8,900 km · 9 Landing Points · 8 Countries · Ready for Service: 2029
| Length | 8,900 km |
|---|---|
| Status | Planned |
| Ready for Service | 2029 |
| Landing Points | 9 |
| Countries | 8 |
| Location |
|---|
| Batam, Indonesia |
| Changi, Singapore |
| Dawu, Taiwan |
| Gunsan, South Korea |
| Luna, Philippines |
| Mumong, Brunei |
| Sedili, Malaysia |
| Wada, Japan |
| Wujie, Taiwan |
Monitored from 2026-03-01 through 2026-06-22 - 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| #14843 | control probe | 52 | 6.4 ms |
| #1033 | control probe | 20 | 106.9 ms |
| #6410 own probe | Sao Paulo BR | 14 | 245.8 ms |
| #6487 own probe | Singapore SG | 14 | 71.0 ms |
| #1014589 own probe | Almaty KZ | 14 | 295.6 ms |
Asia United Gateway East (AUG East) is a planned long-haul submarine cable that will run down the spine of East and South-East Asia. It is one of the larger systems on the horizon, about 8,900 km, with service expected around 2029. Its ownership reads like a who's-who of the regional internet: Amazon Web Services, Microsoft, Singtel, Chunghwa Telecom, Telekom Malaysia, Globe Telecom, Arteria, Dreamline and Unified National Networks all sit on the consortium.
AUG East strings together landings across much of maritime East Asia: Wada in Japan, Gunsan in South Korea, Dawu and Wujie in Taiwan, Luna in the Philippines, Mumong in Brunei, Sedili in Malaysia, Batam in Indonesia and Changi in Singapore.
Japan - Korea - Taiwan - Philippines - Brunei - Malaysia - Indonesia - SingaporeThe cable links the two anchors of Asian internet traffic, the Japan and Korea cluster in the north and the Singapore hub in the south, while touching the fast-growing markets in between. For the hyperscalers on the consortium, it is capacity for cloud regions and content delivery; for the national carriers, it is a stake in a backbone their countries increasingly depend on. A new high-capacity route also adds resilience to a corridor that has seen repeated cable faults.
AUG East mixes global cloud companies with regional telecom operators. That blend is now typical of large Asian systems: the cloud providers bring demand and funding, the carriers bring landing rights and local reach. The result is a cable whose capacity is largely committed before it is even built.
Much of the route runs through the South China Sea and the straits around Singapore, among the busiest and most cable-dense waters on earth. It is a conflict-adjacent zone where shipping lanes, fishing grounds and naval activity overlap with the cable corridors, so new systems add both capacity and more seabed to watch.
Once AUG East is live, GeoCables can monitor the many paths that will lean on its segments and watch vessel activity over its long corridor. A cable with this many landings has many places a fault can begin, and independent checks across its legs help pinpoint where a problem starts rather than just that one exists.
The consortium members, the landing points and the planned service window around 2029 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 | 2026-06-22 11:01 |
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