RETN, the independent global network service provider, has announced the addition of a sixth subsea route to its high-capacity network backbone for the Taiwan market, further diversifying and strengthening network resilience for customers in and beyond the island.
In response to recurring subsea cable disruptions around Taiwan and growing demand for data-intensive workloads such as AI, RETN now operates six physically diverse subsea routes serving Taiwan: four between Taipei and Hong Kong and two between Taipei and Tokyo. The newly added Taipei-Hong Kong route increases the number of independent international paths available to customers, providing greater flexibility and resilience when individual cables are impaired.
These routes are intentionally engineered to avoid single points of failure. They terminate in multiple, geographically separate data centres rather than a single centralised carrier hotel and they leverage different landing points, terrestrial corridors and equipment vendors. This design reduces the risk that a disruption in one corridor or facility will cascade across all of a customer’s international traffic.
Recent cable disruptions across Asia, particularly around Taiwan, have shown how quickly a single fault, or several faults within the same corridor, can lead to congestion, higher latency and packet loss on alternative long-haul routes.
These disruptions caused RETN to add an additional Taipei-Hong Kong subsea route to protect customers, with a plan to interconnect with more local data centres in support of Taiwan’s ‘Smart Technology Island’ vision in the future, noted Oswald Huang, Managing Director of RETN for the Taiwan market.
