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Matrix Cable System

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MCS or Matrix Cable System is a submarine telecommunications cable linking Indonesia (Jakarta and Batam) and Singapore with a 2nd phase to Australia.

It has landing points in:

  • Jakarta, Indonesia
  • Batam, Indonesia
  • Singapore, Singapore

About MCS

Total bandwidth capacity of MCS Cable System is 5.12 Tbit/s, made up of 8 pairs of optical fibres, each pair providing 640 Gbit/s by Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing of 10 Gbit/s wavelengths. The 1,000 km-long undersea fully buried cable system is built in a self-healing ring configuration. The cable system, will be operational starting mid 2008.