Indigo Consortium's Subsea Cables 'about to Go Live' By Ry Crozier, itnews.com May 20, 2019 The Indigo consortium’s subsea cables connecting Singapore-Perth and Perth-Sydney are “about to go live”, entrepreneur Bevan Slattery says, adding a new route option for Australian internet traffic. “Eight years and 9300km later, Indigo Central (Sydney to Perth and Australia's first [...]
New Subsea Cable System Between Australia and South East Asia – Marine Lay Completed Telstra Press Release January 25, 2019 AARNet, Google, Indosat Ooredoo, Singtel, SubPartners and Telstra today announced a significant milestone in the implementation of the INDIGO subsea cable system with the completion, on schedule, of the final splicing of both the INDIGO [...]
Telstra Sends Strong Signal with Submarine Cable Upgrade By James Fernyhough January 21, 2019 Telstra has made one of the strongest statements since it launched its T22 strategy that it has not turned its back on fixed line infrastructure by committing to a major upgrade to its submarine cable network. The upgrade, announced on Monday, [...]
Telstra Adds Transpacific Capacity to Subsea Cable Network By Rohan Pearce, Computerworld January 15, 2019 Telstra today revealed that it had purchased additional capacity on the New Cross Pacific (NCP) Cable as well as undertaken a “further investment” in the FASTER cable system. FASTER lands in Japan, Taiwan and the US west coast. NCP connects [...]
Superloop Limited Announces the First Submarine Cable System From Sydney to Singapore By Kunal Sawhney, Kalkine Media December 24, 2017 Superloop Limited flags the first submarine cable system connecting Australia and the South East Asian market. It translates the ‘final splice’ achieved by Australia’s first transcontinental submarine fiber optic cable, INDIGO. The news sent the [...]
Telstra Buys Quarter Share of Southern Cross Cable Network By Chris Duckett, ZDNet December 18, 2018 Australia's incumbent telco picks up 25 percent of Southern Cross and gains capacity on existing and future cables. Telstra is set to buy into Southern Cross Cable Network through the purchase of new shares that will give the telco [...]
Indigo Subsea Cable Completes Sydney Landing By Corinne Reichert, ZDNet October 29, 2018 The Indigo subsea telecommunications cable has completed its landing at Coogee Beach in Sydney, the consortium building the system has announced, with the Central cable to be installed by early December. According to SubParters, the submarine cable's construction remains on track, and [...]
INDIGO West Cable Lands at Perth Beach By George Nott, CIO Australia September 19, 2018 Work on the first section of the INDIGO West subsea cable is now complete, after it landed today at Floreat Beach in Perth. The 2400km cable runs from Christmas Island to Perth. Work on the second section of the cable, [...]
Telstra Backs Two More Subsea Cables By Corinne Reichert, ZDNet January 21, 2018 Telstra has announced investing in two new Pacific submarine cable systems connecting Hong Kong with the West Coast of the United States, which the telco said would deliver lower latency than the currently used Asia-America Gateway (AAG). The new Hong Kong Americas [...]
Alcatel Submarine Networks, HKA Consortium To Build Trans-Pacific System Nokia Press Release January 22, 2018 Honolulu, Hawaii - The Hong Kong-Americas (HKA) consortium and Alcatel Submarine Networks (ASN) have signed a turnkey contract for the deployment of the Hong Kong-Americas (HKA) submarine cable network, which will span more than 13,000 kilometers. This new open cable [...]
