Telstra Endeavour

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.

Telstra Endeavour
Cable typeFibre-optic
FateActive
First trafficOctober 2008
Design capacity1.28 tbit/s
Lit capacity80 gbit/s
Built byAlcatel-Lucent
Landing pointsTamarama Beach, New South Wales
Wai'anae, Hawai'i
Area servedAsia-Pacific
Owner(s)Telstra
WebsiteTelstra Endeavour Cable

Landing points

The landing points are:[4]

  • Tamarama Beach, Sydney, Australia, with termination at Paddington, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
  • Keawaula, Wai'anae, Honolulu County, Oahu, Hawaii, US

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.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) 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 9 July 2009.
  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

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