The ASEAN cable system was a submarine telecommunications cable system

Submarine communications 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....

 linking Indonesia

Indonesia

Indonesia , officially the Republic of Indonesia , is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania. Indonesia is an archipelago comprising approximately 13,000 islands. It has 33 provinces with over 238 million people, and is the world's fourth most populous country. Indonesia is a republic, with an...

, Malaysia, Singapore

Singapore

Singapore , officially the Republic of Singapore, is a Southeast Asian city-state off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, north of the equator. An island country made up of 63 islands, it is separated from Malaysia by the Straits of Johor to its north and from Indonesia's Riau Islands by the...

, Thailand

Thailand

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 and the Philippines

Philippines

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. It was completed in September 1983, but has since been decommissioned.

Construction

Construction was split into four sections. The first section, a 1534 nmi (2,841 km) cable, was laid in 1978 with landing points

Cable landing point

A cable landing point is the location where a submarine or other underwater cable makes landfall. The term is most often used for the landfall points of submarine telecommunications cables and submarine power cables. The landing will either be direct or via a branch from a main cable using a...

 at Currimao, Ilocos Norte

Currimao, Ilocos Norte

Currimao is a 5th class municipality in the province of Ilocos Norte, Philippines. According to the latest census, it has a population of 11,305 people in 2,126 households...

 in the Philippines and Katong

Katong

Katong is a residential area in the east of Singapore near the seafront. Formerly located by the sea, land was reclaimed all the way to East Coast Park to provide more land for housing and recreational purposes due to shortage of land in the late 1960s after Singapore gained independence.Katong was...

, Singapore. The second section, laid in 1980, was a 572 nm cable from Ancol, Indonesia to Changi

Changi

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, Singapore. The third section, laid in 1983, was a 920 nm cable between Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand. The final section laid was from Thailand to the Philippines.

Capacity

The cable carried 1380 circuits which were allocated on the basis of ownership shares in the whole project.