(Telecompaper) A consortium of seven international telecommunication companies have teamed up to build a new submarine cable system directly connecting Southeast Asia and the US (SEA-US). Scheduled for completion in the last quarter of 2016, the project is expected to involve overall investments of USD 250 million. The SEA-US undersea cable system will provide superior latency, delivering an additional 20 Tbps capacity, using 100 Gbps transmission equipment.