Google’s Tabua Cable Makes Landfall in Sydney, Australia
By Dan Swinhoe, Data Center Dynamics
February 2, 2026
Google’s Tabua subsea cable has landed in Sydney, Australia.
Last week, Google execs announced that the Tabua cable had made landfall in the Maroubra area of Sydney, New South Wales.
The search giant first announced plans for the cable in October 2023 as part of its South Pacific Connect initiative to improve the reliability and resilience of digital connectivity in the region.
Tabua, named after a sacred Fijian whale’s tooth, will connect the US and Australia via Fiji. It is set to launch later this year.
The system reportedly features 16 fiber pairs with a minimum design capacity of 17Tbps each. Alongside Google’s upcoming Honomoana cable, it is the first system to link the US to Australia beyond Sydney.
As well as Sydney, the cable is set to land in Los Angeles, California; Oahu, Hawaii; Natadola and Suva, Fiji; and Queensland, Australia. Australian telco Vocus is also a partner on the project.
The cable landed in Queensland in November at NextDC’s cable landing station in Maroochydore on the Sunshine Coast.
Google has broken ground on a cable landing station for the project in Fiji.
Trans Pacific Networks (TPN), which is leasing capacity on Tabua, recently said it would be utilizing Cienna’s WaveLogic 6 Extreme (WL6e) as well as the 6500 Reconfigurable Line System (RLS) on the cable as well as Google’s Echo systems.
Sydney is the landing point for more than a dozen subsea cables, several of them travelling across the Pacific to the US. SubCo’s SMAP cable also landed at Maroubra earlier this year.
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