| Cable type | Fibre-optic |
|---|---|
| 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 proposed23 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, through its subsidiary Alcatel Submarine Networks, which also supplied Telstra's two cables across Bass Strait and its Tasman Sea (Tasman 2) cable. Alcatel-Lucent is basing this turn-key project6 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
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
References
- "Telstra doubling lit capacity on Endeavour Hawaii cable | CommsDay". Archived from the original on 31 December 2009. Retrieved 16 April 2010.
- 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". Archived from the original on 18 November 2022. 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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