Telstra Endeavour
Cable type | Fibre-optic |
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Fate | Active |
First traffic | October 2008 |
Design capacity | 1.28 Tbit/s |
Lit capacity | 100 Gbit/s |
Built by | Alcatel-Lucent |
Landing points | Tamarama Beach, Sydney Waianae, Hawaii |
Area served | Pacific Ocean |
Owner(s) | Telstra |
Website | Telstra Endeavour Cable |
The Telstra Endeavour is a submarine cable connecting Sydney and Hawaii. The cable went live in October 2008,[1] with a capacity of 1.28 terabits per second in the future (currently at 100 gigabits per second). It was proposed[2][3] on 28 March 2007 by Telstra, the largest telecommunications carrier in Australia.
Initially with a lit capacity of 80 Gbit/s, Telstra announced an increased capacity to 100 Gbit/s in January 2015.[4]
Landing points
The landing points are:[5]
- Tamarama Beach, Sydney, Australia, with termination at Paddington
- Keawaula, Waianae, Hawaii
History
Telstra announced that the cable would connect Sydney and Hawaii with a 9,000 km (5,600 mi) link, the largest ever built and owned by an Australian company, providing a transmission capacity of 1.28 terabit/s to Hawaii. The cable will be linked to others from Hawaii to the US mainland.
The manufacture and laying of the cable was the responsibility of Alcatel-Lucent, which also supplied Telstra's two cables across Bass Strait and its Tasman Sea (Tasman 2) cable. Alcatel-Lucent is basing this turn-key project[6] on the "Alcatel 1620 Light Manager"[1] submarine line termination equipment that uses dense wavelength-division multiplexing (DWDM). No cost was revealed, however it is estimated around $300 million (AUD).
See also
- Other Australian international submarine cables (and year of first service):
- Pipe Pacific Cable (2009)
- Australia-Japan Cable (2001)
- Southern Cross Cable (2000)
- SEA-ME-WE 3 (2000, Australian portion in service earlier)
- JASURAUS (1997)
- PacRimWest (1995)
References
- ^ "Telstra doubling lit capacity on Endeavour Hawaii cable | CommsDay". Archived from the original on 31 December 2009. Retrieved 16 April 2010. Telstra doubling lit capacity on Endeavour Hawaii cable
- ^ Telstra Media Release, "Telstra continues aggressive investment with Australia to USA connection", 28 March 2007
- ^ Rossi, Sandra, "Telstra unveils largest submarine cable connection to US – 9000km from Sydney to Hawaii", Computerworld, 29 March 2007
- ^ "Telstra hits 100G on key Asia-Pac submarine cables". Retrieved 21 July 2023.
- ^ "Next Generation Cable Systems, Telstra Endeavour, Sydney, Australia to Hawaii, USA" (PDF). Retrieved 9 July 2009.
- ^ Alcatel-Lucent media release Telstra awards Alcatel-Lucent 9,000 km submarine network contract to support IP network transformation strategy, Paris, 28 March 2007
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