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Southern Cross cable upgrade is good

Posted April 7th, 2008 by peter

The Southern Cross Cable provides most of the bandwidth from Australia, New Zealand and Hawaii to the US internet via 2 submarine communications cables. It was announced today that that capacity has now been extended by another 260Gbit/s and by the end of the year capacity would be 860Gbit/s.

Commissioned by January 2001 at a cost of US$1.3 billion, the installed capacity was 80Gbit/s and extended to 480Gbit/s in January 2003.

Southern Cross Cable Network is jointly owned by Telecom NZ (50%), Singtel-Optus (40%) and Verizon Business (10%)

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