In a sign that Facebook is getting even more serious about Asia, the company has invested in an undersea cable system called the Asia Pacific Gateway according to CommsDay. This is a 10,000 km cable that runs from Malaysia to South Korea and Japan that links up other countries along the way. The cable is expected to speed up Internet connection within the Asian region and provide much greater bandwidth to countries connected to the system once the project is completed in 2014. Including other investors, the project has secured $450 million according to the BBC.

This cable system will link Malaysia directly to South Korea and Japan as well as mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Vietnam, and Singapore. The network will be administered by Global Transit, a subsidiary of Malaysia’s Time dotCom on behalf of the consortium of companies involved in the project.

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