TIISCS (Tata Indicom India-Singapore Cable System), also known as TIC (Tata Indicom Cable), is a

submarine telecommunications cable A submarine communications cable is a cable laid on the sea bed between land-based stations to carry telecommunication signals across stretches of ocean and sea. The first submarine communications cables laid beginning in the 1850s carried tel ...

linking

India India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the so ...

and

Singapore Singapore (), officially the Republic of Singapore, is a sovereign island country and city-state in maritime Southeast Asia. It lies about one degree of latitude () north of the equator, off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, borde ...

. It has landing points in

Chennai Chennai (, ), formerly known as Madras ( the official name until 1996), is the capital city of Tamil Nadu, the southernmost Indian state. The largest city of the state in area and population, Chennai is located on the Coromandel Coast of th ...

, India and

Changi Changi () is a planning area located in the geographical region of Tanah Merah in the East Region of Singapore. Sharing borders with Pasir Ris and Tampines to the west, Changi Bay to the southeast, the South China Sea to the east and the Sera ...

, Singapore. Tata Communications Limited (TCL) owned Tata Indicom Cable (TIC), Singapore's first fully Indian-owned, undersea fiber-optic cable. The TIC cable is 100 percent owned, operated and maintained by TCL. The 3,175 km cable lands in Chennai in India and in Changi in Singapore. Construction of the cable began in November 2003 and went live on 15 September 2004, making it one of the fastest cable build-outs in history. The new 5.12 terabit per second TIC cable system will significantly increase the existing bandwidth capacity into India, which is the second fastest growing communications route in the world.

References

https://web.archive.org/web/20051217134706/http://www.tata.com/vsnl/releases/20041103.htm
Submarine communications cables in the Indian Ocean India–Singapore relations Tata Communications 2004 establishments in Tamil Nadu 2004 establishments in Singapore Telecommunications in India {{telecomm-stub