Indigo subsea cable system lands in Perth

News Broadband Australia 20 SEP 2018
Indigo subsea cable system lands in Perth

AARNet, Google, Indosat Ooredoo, Singtel, SubPartners and Telstra have announced a milestone in the implementation of the Indigo subsea cable system with the landing of the Indigo West cable at Floreat Beach in Perth. This marks the completion of work to lay the first section of cable across 2,400km from Christmas Island to Perth. Work to lay the second section of the Indigo West cable between Singapore and Indonesia will start this month and is expected to be completed by end-December.

This milestone follows the announcement in April 2017 that the consortium had entered into an agreement with Alcatel Submarine Networks (ASN) to build the Indigo cable system connecting Singapore, Perth and Sydney, with two additional fibre pairs connecting Singapore and Jakarta via a branching unit. 

The ASN cable ship, the Ile de Brehat, will continue laying the Indigo Central cable another 4,600km from Perth to Sydney. Construction of the system is on-track to be completed and ready for service by mid-2019. The 9,200km system is designed to strengthen links between Australia and South East Asian markets. Using coherent optical technology, the cable’s two-fibre pairs are expected to be able to support up to 36 Tbps.

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Telstra,  Google,  Indosat,  SingTel,  Ooredoo,  Alcatel

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Australia

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