Kum Yeow Lum

In modern day, data connectivity is our daily essential. I am a submarine cable planner, enabling connectivity world wide is my job. This role demands multiple discipline expertise; commercial negotiation, marine knowledge, financial and project management and chairing different roles in consortium. The most rewarding part of this job is to work with people from different country with diverse cultural, coming together to build connectivities between countries and continents.

Connectivity Enabler between continents & countries. Submarine cable planning, deployment and commissioning.

Placing international traditional transmission services to digital world. Enable quick info retrieval and service design by coding up an inhouse portal from scratch with NBI connectivity to existing transmission networks.

Driven with international traffic demand across continents and requirement to build a more resilient network that can enable quick restoration of transmission services during submarine cable downtime. Planned and built new international Transmission Network with connectivity to different submarine cable system to meet quick restoration solution and high bandwidth demand.

Pairing up both advance network transmission technology and fundamental service requirement in transmission network to build a low cost yet high reliable transmission network for Singtel Domestic Product MetroEthernet and Gigawavelite.