Asia Submarine-cable Express (ASE)/Cahaya Malaysia: latency up to 3× normal, 9 Sep 2026
What we measured
| Cable | Asia Submarine-cable Express (ASE)/Cahaya Malaysia |
| Segment | Sydney, AU → Changi South, SG |
| Detected | 2026-09-09 10:32 UTC |
| Resolved | 2026-09-09 20:32 UTC |
| Duration | 9h 59m |
| Observed latency | 88.6 ms |
| Baseline | 106.9 ms · 2.95× |
| Increase | +195% |
| Severity | warning |
Who is affected
Countries where Asia Submarine-cable Express (ASE)/Cahaya Malaysia comes ashore, how much of their submarine diversity this cable represents, and what our measurements into them show.
| Country | Dependence on this cable | Other submarine cables | What the measurements show |
|---|---|---|---|
| China resilience index: 100 · resilient |
1 of 24 cables (4% of submarine diversity) | APCN-2, Asia Africa Europe-1 (AAE-1), Asia Direct Cable (ADC) +20 more | median 159 ms today vs 160 ms over 30 days (99 routes) - unchanged |
| Japan resilience index: 100 · resilient |
1 of 53 cables (2% of submarine diversity) | 5 Villages 6 Islands, APCN-2, Apricot +49 more | median 225 ms today vs 203 ms over 30 days (468 routes) - unchanged |
| Malaysia resilience index: 100 · resilient |
1 of 34 cables (3% of submarine diversity) | APCN-2, Asia Africa Europe-1 (AAE-1), Asia Link Cable (ALC) +30 more | median 217 ms today vs 180 ms over 30 days (47 routes) - slower |
| Philippines resilience index: 100 · resilient |
1 of 26 cables (4% of submarine diversity) | APCN-2, Apricot, Asia Connect Cable-1 (ACC-1) +22 more | median 284 ms today vs 244 ms over 30 days (102 routes) - slower |
| Singapore resilience index: 78 · resilient |
1 of 46 cables (2% of submarine diversity) | APCN-2, Apricot, Asia Connect Cable-1 (ACC-1) +42 more | median 155 ms today vs 163 ms over 30 days (509 routes) - unchanged |
Dependence is structural (share of the country's submarine cables), not a traffic share: real traffic distribution across cables is not public.
Path analysis
Traffic kept the same route. Latency rose without a visible path change, which points at congestion or a fault on the existing route rather than a reroute.
Cross-probe verdict. Too few independent vantage points were watching this endpoint to reach a cross-probe verdict.
Timeline
- Alert 2026090901: warning - ratio 2.95x
- Alert #198 improving: 1/3 consecutive OK
- Alert #198 improving: 2/3 consecutive OK
- Alert #198 resolved: RTT 88.55ms (baseline 106.86ms), 3 consecutive OK
Detection method
Latency is sampled continuously from our probe network. An alert opens when round-trip time to a monitored endpoint holds above its rolling baseline, and closes automatically once it returns. Full method is described on the methodology page.