Flexential has announced that its Hillsboro, Oregon data center campus now enables connectivity to the Bifrost Cable System—the first direct subsea link between Singapore and the US West Coast. The Bifrost system, which achieved ready-for-service status in May 2024, is designed to deliver up to 260 terabits per second of data transmission over more than 12,500 miles.

The cable terminates at Flexential’s Hillsboro campus, which houses the submarine line terminal equipment and interconnection infrastructure. According to Flexential, this setup provides the lowest-latency handoff for the cable, offering round-trip latency of just under 165 milliseconds between Singapore and the US—up to 10 milliseconds faster than many existing transpacific routes.

For data center operators, hyperscalers, and technology vendors, Flexential’s Hillsboro campus now acts as a key transpacific interconnection point. Bifrost’s route connects Singapore, Indonesia, the Philippines, Mexico, and the US, with one landing at Grover Beach, California, and another in Winema, Oregon. The Oregon landing is linked by terrestrial fiber to Flexential’s Hillsboro 2 data center. Bifrost also includes a landing point in Guam for cross-connectivity with cable systems to Japan and Australia.

Flexential’s Hillsboro campus is now a termination point for three subsea systems: the Bifrost, the Hawaiki link to Australia and New Zealand, and the New Cross Pacific system to China, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan. The facility provides access to over 300 on-net carriers, direct cloud connections, and leading carrier hotels.

Flexential reports that it has acquired land for a sixth data center in Hillsboro to support growing demand for AI-ready and next-generation data centers in the region. It has also launched the Flexential Marketplace, which gives users a central platform to access partners, connectivity services, and subsea routes like Bifrost.

“Our customers are building applications that serve users in Manila and Singapore the same way they do in Miami and Seattle,” said Ryan Mallory, CEO at Flexential. “They need enough bandwidth to move massive datasets and enough compute to process them. Bifrost extends direct access to those markets through our infrastructure, which is built to support the workloads they’re running now and the ones they’re planning next.”

Source: Flexential