Facebook has made an investment in a submarine cable system that connects many landing stations throughout Asia, CommsDay reported. The information came from a Malaysian stock-exchange filing by another company that had recently joined the Asia Pacific Gateway (APG) cable consortium.

The size of Facebook’s investment in the project or what kind of network capacity it will get in return has not been disclosed, but Time dotcom (the aforementioned recent APG member) has invested US$45m into a cable landing station and 3.4Tbps connectivity between Malaysia and Japan.

The APG cable system will connect most East Asian countries, designed to land in 11 cable landing stations in Korea, Japan, Mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Vietnam, Thailand and Singapore, among others, according to Submarine Cable Networks (SCN).

Other members of the APG consortium include Chunghwa Telecom (Taiwan), KT Corporation (Korea) and NTT Com (Japan), among others. The system’s total design capacity is 54.8Tbps. NEC has the construction contract for the system.

Construction and maintenance agreement for the APG cable system was concluded in December 2011, and the system was scheduled to become live by June 2014, according to (SCN).

Facebook has not disclosed any information about its data center capacity in Asia, but it does have hundreds of millions of members in the region and offices in Hong Kong, Singapore and Tokyo. The only data centers it has talked about publicly are the ones it has built and owns itself: two in the US and one in Sweden.

The company has said that it uses data center capacity leased from commercial providers.