Where Healthcare Meets The Network

From the bottom of the ocean to the cloud, digital infrastructure has become the unseen foundation of modern life—the fourth essential utility. It carries medical diagnoses, financial transactions, streaming content, and AI-driven insights across continents. That infrastructure is being tested like never before, from healthcare’s data explosion to the growing demands of hyperscalers, enterprises, and global platforms alike.

This is the world in which MOX Networks operates. Born out of medicine, scaled through fiber, and now building across hemispheres, MOX is enabling an era where subsea cable systems and AI-driven diagnostics are chapters of the same story.

Born From Medicine; Built for the Future

MOX was not created to be a traditional telecom provider. In 2013, Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong—a physician, biotech entrepreneur, and pioneer in immunotherapy—saw that the next breakthroughs in medicine would rely on more than drugs, devices, and brilliant clinicians. They would depend on connectivity: the capability to move, store, and access data securely, instantaneously, and at staggering scale. Whether it is among hospitals, research institutions, cloud platforms, or AI engines, without connectivity each one is hindered from driving better patient outcomes. Rather than waiting for incumbent networks to adjust, MOX began to lay a different kind of foundation: fiber in the ground; low-latency terrestrial routes between cities, hospitals, and data centers; and diverse subsea capacity to cross oceans without single points of failure.

Today, MOX operates a robust terrestrial footprint across North America and Asia and has partnered with international systems, including Google’s Topaz trans-Pacific subsea cable, which links Japan and North America with 16 fiber pairs and 240 TB/s of design capacity (on which MOX has acquired 2.5 pairs of capacity). MOX is also investing in connecting the US to Brazil, having secured a full pair of fiber from Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, to Praia Grande and São Paolo, Brazil. Progressing plans to extend toward Europe will complete a more resilient, hemispheric fabric. It’s not just more bandwidth; it’s better bandwidth, engineered for life-critical precision.

Latency margins measured in tens of milliseconds are not nice-to-haves. They are clinical requirements. And as AI models scale, the network must deliver sustained throughput for training and inference while guaranteeing predictable performance for real-time clinical review. Medicine’s next breakthroughs won’t come from the lab alone; they’ll come from the networks that connect those labs to the world. Transport that is fast, intelligent, and resilient is the essential “missing layer” that turns data into care.

Convergence: Subsea, Terrestrial, and Edge

If modern medicine is increasingly global, the infrastructure must be international and tightly integrated. The MOX design approach integrates subsea systems, terrestrial long-haul fiber, interconnection data hubs, and data centers into a single, intelligent continuum. Subsea provides the transoceanic arteries; terrestrial fiber provides low-latency routes between landing stations, metropolitan hospitals, and cloud on-ramps; and the data hubs and data centers house and offer access and AI workflows in a large, localized compute environment, so that AI inference and pre-processing can happen close to the data source and shave precious milliseconds.

Equally important is diversity. MOX invests in unique paths to avoid common corridors and chokepoints that can degrade performance, whether from maintenance, congestion, or unforeseen events. The result is not merely redundancy, but resilience: a network that anticipates issues, routes around them in real time, and maintains consistent service quality across continents. For providers, researchers, and hyperscalers alike, resilience means operational confidence. For patients, it means continuity of care.

Legacy networks were built to move bits. The new mandate is to orchestrate them. To sustain AI-enabled healthcare, MOX infuses intelligence into the transport layer and the operational fabric above it. Automated cross-connects enable rapid, error-resistant turn-ups and changes. Remote OTDR diagnostics allow teams to identify and localize physical issues at fiber speed. Real-time traffic optimization shifts flows around congestion or incidents without human intervention. And WaveLogic optical platforms deliver scalable capacity up to 1.6 TB/s per wavelength, thereby ensuring the transport layer doesn’t become the bottleneck when AI data bursts surge.

The human experience is the driver. Improving patient outcomes and developing a path toward wellness are paramount during the testing, diagnosis, and treatment phases, which are stress-filled, costly, and highly emotional for both the patient and their loved ones. A network designed for streaming video isn’t the same network that supports AI-assisted surgery.

MOX’s purpose-built networks are designed to handle more data, faster, and are an ongoing investment. Whether it’s a cardiologist monitoring live telemetry, a radiologist reviewing multiple modalities across time, or an AI model analyzing PET images and rendering results at the clinician’s elbow, the expectation is zero perceptible lag and maximum uptime. Networks that self-monitor and self-heal are no longer aspirational; they are table stakes for modern care delivery.

Building Across Oceans

The global footprint matters because data gravity is shifting in areas like medicine, finance, media, and research. Hyperscalers want secure, deterministic paths between key cloud regions and growing edge markets. Hospitals and health systems want frictionless connectivity to imaging, PACS, EHRs, and AI providers. Media companies want to move raw and finished content across oceans in minutes, not hours. And the financial sector wants routes with diversity and low, consistent latency between trading venues and computing hubs.

MOX’s current and near-term highlights reflect those needs:

• Pacific: 2.5 fiber pairs on Google’s Topaz cable, offering low-latency, high-diversity capacity between Japan and the US West Coast. Capacity is also available and provided on the PC-1 and TGN cable systems.
• Terrestrial: Dense, performance-focused fiber across North America and Asia, interconnecting hospitals, research campuses, cloud on-ramps, and core data centers.
• South Atlantic:  A full fiber pair on Google’s Firmina cable, offering capacity along a new US–Brazil route that breaks legacy patterns and supports hyperscalers, fintech, cloud, and media.
• Europe (in development): Additional subsea capacity under review to create a strategic confluence point for US, Latin American, and European traffic.

Design for AI; Deliver for Everyone

While MOX’s origin story is rooted in healthcare, the same properties that make a network safe for patient data—low latency, deterministic performance, security, and resilience—also make it valuable across every data-intensive sector. AI research labs need to balance sustained training loads with bursty inference. Cloud providers want reliable east–west and international capacity. Media platforms are racing to capture, process, and distribute richer formats. Even outside of healthcare, the “clinical” bar for performance is becoming the universal bar for business.

Projecting forward, the demands are only accelerating. US Internet traffic, by some reasonable scenarios, could rise from around 110 exabytes per month in 2025 to nearly 275 exabytes per month by 2030. Add to that the growth of multimodal AI, volumetric medical imaging, immersive collaboration, and cross-border data stewardship, and the conclusion is clear: The future still runs on fiber and crosses oceans.

The Quiet Backbone, Built for Human Impact

MOX’s mission is not simply to lay more fiber. It is to build a smarter network that can think, adapt, and scale with tomorrow’s demands. That mission started in healthcare, where lives depend on milliseconds and assurances. It has since expanded to the broader digital economy, where competitive advantage, scientific progress, and cultural experiences pass through the same invisible highways.

As AI reshapes diagnostics, research becomes more collaborative, and global platforms knit continents together, the value of a resilient, intelligent network will only grow. The more we rely on data, the more we rely on the infrastructure beneath it. And the more we rely on that infrastructure, the more design matters with diversity, latency, resilience, and trust.

The future may be intelligent, but it still depends on the networks that connect us. MOX builds those pathways across continents and industries so data, ideas, and breakthroughs can move at the speed of possibility.

Learn how MOX is powering healthcare, AI, and mission-critical infrastructure across hemispheres at www.moxnetworks.com.