Changi North, Singapore

Changi North is one of the principal submarine cable landing clusters in Singapore, situated on the eastern coast of the city-state near Changi Airport and the broader Changi industrial district. It is the most active of Singapore's submarine cable clusters for Indonesian-bound traffic, hosting the Singapore-side terminals of multiple regional cables that connect Singapore's peering ecosystem to Indonesian destinations across the Riau Archipelago and Java.

Among the cables landing here, the newest in our monitoring set is RISING 8, a 2026-vintage 1,104-km regional cable connecting Changi North to Tanjung Pakis on the Java coast and Tanjung Bemban in the Riau Archipelago. RISING 8 joins a long-established family of Indonesia-Singapore regional cables in the Changi cluster — including Matrix Cable System, BRCS, DMCS, and several others — each owned by a different Indonesian carrier consortium and each providing redundant outbound capacity from Indonesia to Singapore peering exchanges. Our measurements on these cables show a wide variance in routing-policy commitment: some directions sit at 1.3-1.4× the physical floor, others several times higher, depending on which side of the corridor originates the measured traffic.

Singapore as a whole is the principal Southeast Asian peering hub, and the Changi-cluster landings are how a substantial fraction of Indonesian outbound traffic enters that ecosystem. From Changi, traffic reaches the Singapore Internet Exchange (SGIX), the major content-delivery networks operating Singapore presence, and the long-haul cable connections onward to the United States, Europe, and India. The peering economy of Singapore is dense enough that the choice of Tuas versus Changi North versus Changi South for a given cable's landing has more to do with land-use availability and approval timing than with meaningful network-topology differences.

For the broader Asian internet, Changi North is part of the answer to the question of why Singapore-Indonesia latency is consistently single-digit milliseconds despite the geographic distance, and why Indonesian outbound capacity has continued to expand at consortium-paced increments rather than as a single mass project.