Partners agree on new Perth to Singapore submarine cable

News Broadband Australia 31 MAR 2016
Partners agree on new Perth to Singapore submarine cable

Singtel, SubPartners and Telstra jointly announced that they have entered into a Memorandum of Understanding to build a new international submarine cable, APX-West, connecting Perth and Singapore.

The new APX-West submarine cable is expected to begin construction by the end of July 2016 and is scheduled to be completed in 2018. Once completed, the new submarine cable will span more than 4,500 kilometres carrying traffic between Australia and Singapore.

The new cable will incorporate two fibre pairs providing two-way data transmission and each pair will have a minimum design capacity of 10 Tbps. The cable will terminate in facilities operated by the consortium members in Singapore and Australia significantly reducing costs and permitting times.

Categories:

Fixed

Companies:

Telstra,  SingTel

Countries:

Australia,  Singapore

Tags:

Data services, Launch, Consumer, Enterprise

Related Articles

AUSTRALIA 6 APR 2017

Google joins Indigo subsea cable group with Singtel, Telstra

Google has joined a consortium with operators Singtel and Telstra to build a new international subsea cable system, connecting Australia and southeast Asia. Other participants in the Indigo system (previously called APX West & Central) include AARNet, Indonesia's Indosat Ooredoo and SubPartners. They have contracted Alcatel Submarine Networks to build the 9,000-km system by mid-2019. Indigo will connect Singapore and Perth, and onwards to Sydney. Landing will occur in existing facilities in Singapore, Austr

EUROPE 30 MAR 2016

Cinia, ASN demonstrate capacity of 18 Tbps on C-Lion1 cable

Cinia Group and Alcatel-Lucent Submarine Networks (ASN), now part of Nokia, have successfully completed tests on the C-Lion1 submarine cable system demonstating a record-breaking capacity of 18 Tbps of data per fibre pair.

ALGERIA 30 MAR 2016

Algeria commissions new fibre cable for 2017

Algeria's Minister of Post and Information and Communication Technologies, Iman Houda Feraoun, has announced the commissioning in February 2017 of the new submarine cable "Oran-Valence," APS reported. The submarine cable, set to provide high speed internet in Algeria, will link Oran to Valencia (Spain) and become operational in February 2017.

BANGLADESH 23 MAR 2016

Bangladesh starts exporting internet bandwidth to India

Bangladesh and India have taken a stride on 23 March into a bilateral relationship, with the exchange of internet bandwidth and electricity, The Daily Star reported. In exchange for 10 Gbps of internet bandwidth from Bangladesh, India will supply 100 MW of electricity. The event was launched by video conference by Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her Indian counterpart, Narendra Modi.

DJIBOUTI 7 MAR 2016

SEA-ME-WE-5 submarine cable system lands in Djibouti

Djibouti Telecom has completed the landing of the SEA-ME-WE-5 submarine cable system in Haramous, achieving its primary goal of turning Djibouti into a major regional and global hub for telecommunication.

FRANCE 1 MAR 2016

SEA-ME-WE 5 cable lands in France

The SEA-ME-WE 5 submarine cable, due to be operational in the second half, has landed today at the submarine cable station of La Seyne-sur-Mer, near Toulon in southern France. The 20,000 km fibre cable will connect France to Singapore, serving fifteen countries along the way. Orange Marine, a wholly owned subsidiary of Orange, manages the installation of the SEA- ME- WE 5 in the Mediterranean, with 4 shore ends, France, Egypt, Italy and Turkey. The cable will be connected to the Toulon station to Interxion

NEW ZEALAND 1 FEB 2016

Hawaiki Cable fails to secure remaining funding

Hawaiki Submarine Cable, company looking to build the NZD 500 million Hawaiki submarine cable system to New Zealand, has failed to reach a funding agreement with New York-based private equity firm Stonepeak International Partners, Stuff.co.nz reports. Hawaiki Cable had been negotiating a deal to provide the remaining NZD 150 million needed for the trans-Pacific cable. Founder Remi Galasso said that it has signed up a tier one US telecoms carrier as a customer, and is confident that it will secure funding fr

AUSTRALIA 19 JAN 2016

Equinix Southern Cross connects US and Australia

US data centre operator Equinix has announced that the Southern Cross Cable Network has expanded its data centre presence and now directly connects between Equinix's International Business Exchange (IBX) data centers in Los Angeles (LA1) and Silicon Valley (SV1 and SV8) to its existing deployment in Sydney (SY1).

Just In

19 DEC 16:42

SLT-Mobitel launches 5G network in Sri Lanka

19 DEC 16:19

Dialog Axiata launches 5G network, connects 1.5 million subscribers

19 DEC 15:56

UK govt to ban AI-enabled nudification apps to protect women, girls

19 DEC 15:42

3 UK launches last-minute Christmas sale

Commentary

13:56

Video market set for slower growth ahead

11:38

Netflix buys Warner Bros to deepen content catalogue

11:11

KPN's mixed performance in Q3 raises questions for strategy day

15:26

Stock markets breaking records but what happened to Odido's IPO plans?

Background

01:04

The week in telecom: Wi-Fi bolt-ons take off to boost broadband growth, video market works on consolidation

01:39

The week in telecom: Netflix wins bidding for Warner Bros, Apple poaches new execs, Samsung debuts trifold

13:51

Proximus vs. Telenet: Proximus performs better in Q3 while Telenet uses up cash

14:16

Proximus Domestic still struggling with low margins

Complete profile

Before downloading the whitepaper, we would like to ask you to complete your profile with company and position. After confirming you will receive the white paper.