Telstra Endeavour

Telstra Endeavour
Cable type Fibre-optic
Fate Active
First traffic October 2008
Design capacity 1.28 tbit/s
Lit capacity 80 gbit/s
Built by Alcatel-Lucent
Landing points Tamarama Beach, New South Wales
Wai'anae, Hawai'i
Area served Asia-Pacific
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 80 gigabits per second.) It was proposed[2][3] on 28 March 2007 by Telstra, the largest telecommunications carrier in Australia.

Landing points

The landing points are:[4]

History

Telstra announced that the cable would connect Sydney and Hawaii with a 9,000 km 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[5] on the "Alcatel 1620 Light Manager" 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

References

  1. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 31 December 2009. Retrieved 16 April 2010. Telstra doubling lit capacity on Endeavour Hawaii cable
  2. ↑ Telstra Media Release, "Telstra continues aggressive investment with Australia to USA connection", 28 March 2007
  3. ↑ Rossi, Sandra, "Telstra unveils largest submarine cable connection to US – 9000km from Sydney to Hawaii", Computerworld, 29 March 2007
  4. ↑ "Next Generation Cable Systems, Telstra Endeavour, Sydney, Australia to Hawaii, USA" (PDF). Retrieved 2009-07-09.
  5. ↑ Alcatel-Lucent media release Telstra awards Alcatel-Lucent 9,000 km submarine network contract to support IP network transformation strategy, Paris, 28 March 2007

Coordinates: 21°33′14″N 158°14′34″W / 21.554019°N 158.242889°W / 21.554019; -158.242889

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