Philippine broadband provider Converge ICT Solutions said that it has landed the Philippine branch of the trans-pacific Bifrost Cable System at its cable landing station in Davao.
Converge ICT said the Bifrost cable will enhance the Philippines’ role as a vital node in the international digital ecosystem by supporting multi-terabit bandwidth for hyperscalers, data centres, and enterprise clients, as well as low-latency connectivity for fintech, media and gaming, cloud services, AI-driven applications and global content delivery.
Converge ICT said also said Bifrost will provide the Philippines with scalable international gateway access to North America and regional hubs, as well as additional diversified, disaster-resilient routing.
Dennis Anthony Uy, CEO and co-founder of Converge ICT, said that the telco is already seeing “fruitful returns” on its investment in Bifrost.
“Since we’ve announced this project, we’ve seen overwhelming demand from carriers and internet service providers seeking to purchase capacity,” Uy said in a statement.
The 19,888-km Bifrost system, which has been under construction since 2021, is backed by Telin, Keppel Midgard Holdings (KMH), Meta and Amazon. The cable aims to connect the US and Mexico with Singapore via intermediate landing points in Guam, Indonesia and the Philippines, with a designed capacity of 10.4 Tbps.
Converge ICT joined Bifrost in 2021 after acquiring an IRU from KMH for one fibre pair on the system. KMH and Converge also agreed to jointly develop the Bifrost branch cable connecting Davao, with Converge serving as landing partner.
Optical networking vendor Infinera supplied the submarine line terminal equipment (SLTE) for Converge’s Bifrost landing station under a contract signed in October 2024.
After several delays, the Bifrost cable is slated to be ready for service in the third quarter of this year.
