Australia–United States relations

Southern Cross, with Pioneer Consulting, lands Southern Cross NEXT submarine telecommunications cable in Los Angeles

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Tuesday, July 20, 2021
Oceans, Foreign relations, Australia–United States relations, International relations, Submarine communications cable, Telecommunications equipment, Southern Cross Cable, Electrical cable, Lion

With overall project completion expected in early 2022, the $350 million Southern Cross NEXT cable will provide 72Tbit/s of capacity and will be the largest and lowest-latency submarine cable system ever built between Sydney and Los Angeles.

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  • With overall project completion expected in early 2022, the $350 million Southern Cross NEXT cable will provide 72Tbit/s of capacity and will be the largest and lowest-latency submarine cable system ever built between Sydney and Los Angeles.
  • The new route will add to the existing Southern Cross network ecosystem, which includes 12 cable stations and eight major datacenter hubs in Australia and the US.
  • The Southern Cross network spans six countries and eight time zones, connected by over 45,000 km (28,000 mile) of cable - greater than the Earths circumference.
  • The Southern Cross Cable Network comprises two existing submarine communications cables with the new Southern Cross NEXT route due to be complete early 2022.

Southern Cross Selects Pioneer Consulting for Shipboard Representation on New Submarine Telecom Cable Connecting Sydney, Auckland, and Los Angeles

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Wednesday, February 17, 2021
Oceans, Foreign relations, Australia–United States relations, Submarine communications cable, Telecommunications equipment, Southern Cross Cable, PEC

As shipboard representatives, Pioneer Consulting experts will supervise cable loading, freighter transfer, laying operations, post-lay inspection and burial, shore-end landings, and several project management tasks.

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  • As shipboard representatives, Pioneer Consulting experts will supervise cable loading, freighter transfer, laying operations, post-lay inspection and burial, shore-end landings, and several project management tasks.
  • It is an honor to continue our long-standing relationship with Southern Cross and provide shipboard representation for the laying of its planned NEXT cable system, said Gavin Tully, Managing Partner at Pioneer Consulting.
  • Planning and building a submarine cable of the scale of the NEXT system is a highly complex project, said Craige Sloots, Director of Marketing and Sales at Southern Cross Cable Network.
  • The Southern Cross Cable Network comprises two submarine communications cables with the new Southern Cross NEXT route due to be complete early 2022.

Southern Cross Selects Ciena to Enhance NEXT Cable Amid Global Bandwidth Boom

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Monday, February 8, 2021
Technology, Telecommunications, Software, Networks, Internet, Hardware, Politics by country, Foreign relations, Australia–New Zealand relations, Australia–United States relations, Southern Cross Cable, Telecommunications, Ciena, Southern Cross Cable Limited, Ciena

As end-user digital applications continue to proliferate and require global networks to become more adaptive, Southern Cross Cable Limited (Southern Cross) has picked Ciena s (NYSE: CIEN) GeoMesh Extreme submarine solution utilising Cienas 6500 Submarine Line Terminating Equipment (SLTE) powered by WaveLogic 5 Extreme coherent optics for the new 13,494 km Southern Cross NEXT (NEXT) submarine cable in the Pacific.

Key Points: 
  • As end-user digital applications continue to proliferate and require global networks to become more adaptive, Southern Cross Cable Limited (Southern Cross) has picked Ciena s (NYSE: CIEN) GeoMesh Extreme submarine solution utilising Cienas 6500 Submarine Line Terminating Equipment (SLTE) powered by WaveLogic 5 Extreme coherent optics for the new 13,494 km Southern Cross NEXT (NEXT) submarine cable in the Pacific.
  • This deployment will allow Southern Cross to not only tackle the growing demand for bandwidth but also support the resiliency, reconfigurability, and rapid activation requirements that their customers have become accustomed to from Southern Cross.
  • By rolling out Ciena for NEXT, Southern Cross is proactively tackling the unprecedented appetite for bandwidth and ensuring record-breaking capacity over longer distances, said Matt Vesperman, Managing Director for Ciena Australia and New Zealand.
  • Southern Cross Cable Limited (Southern Cross) provides fast, direct, and secure international bandwidth from Australia, New Zealand, Fiji and Hawaii to the heart of the Internet in the USA.

Mosaic NetworX and Southern Cross Cable Network Sign Definitive Agreement

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Thursday, August 13, 2020
Australia–New Zealand relations, Australia–United States relations, Foreign relations, Southern Cross Cable, Submarine communications cable, Pacific Ocean, Networx, Telecommunications

LARKSPUR, Calif., Aug. 13, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Mosaic NetworX LLC, a leading global network aggregator to multi-location businesses, and Southern Cross Cable Network, the premier sub-sea cable operator with capacity between Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, Hawaii, and mainland U.S., today announced a strategic partnership where Mosaic NetworX is the exclusive North American-based direct distributor of capacity.

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  • LARKSPUR, Calif., Aug. 13, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Mosaic NetworX LLC, a leading global network aggregator to multi-location businesses, and Southern Cross Cable Network, the premier sub-sea cable operator with capacity between Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, Hawaii, and mainland U.S., today announced a strategic partnership where Mosaic NetworX is the exclusive North American-based direct distributor of capacity.
  • "Mosaic NetworX will be feet on the ground in the U.S. market and help Southern Cross better serve U.S.-based customers.We have chosen Mosaic as an experienced and successful wholesaler with a 14-year track record of success with a deep list of key clients.This will help Southern Cross reach market sectors not currently served by the Southern Cross Cable eco-system of submarine fibre optic cable," said Laurie Miller, CEO of Southern Cross Cable Network.
  • "Southern Cross has a long and celebrated history as the premier provider of sub-sea capacity between the northern and southern hemispheres," said Matt Hiles, COO at Mosaic NetworX.
  • The Southern Cross Cable Network comprises two submarine communications cables with the new Southern Cross NEXT route due to be complete early 2022.

Southern Cross NEXT Cable Enters Construction Phase

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Tuesday, October 1, 2019
Networks, Mobile, Wireless, Professional services, Technology, Engineering, Other Technology, Manufacturing, Telecommunications, Consulting, Oceans, Politics by country, Foreign relations, Australia–United States relations, Submarine communications cable, Telecommunications equipment, Lion, Southern Cross Cable

Southern Cross Cable Network (SCCN) and Pioneer Consulting are pleased to announce that the Southern Cross NEXT project has achieved CIF (Contract in Force) and has entered the construction project phase.

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  • Southern Cross Cable Network (SCCN) and Pioneer Consulting are pleased to announce that the Southern Cross NEXT project has achieved CIF (Contract in Force) and has entered the construction project phase.
  • The Southern Cross NEXT system has been designed and developed to be an extension of the existing Southern Cross two-cable ecosystem and will allow customers to leverage Southern Cross extensive point-of-presence network and access infrastructure already in place.
  • Southern Cross NEXT is the result of a network investment of around US$300 million by Southern Cross, and is designed to carry 72 terabits per second of traffic roughly the equivalent of simultaneously streaming 4.6 million ultra-high definition movies ensuring Southern Cross can cater for its customers growing data requirements well into the future.
  • The Southern Cross Cable Network comprises two submarine communications cables which were first commissioned in November 2000 and January 2001.

United States Submarine Cables Review and Forecasts, 2018 Report Featuring Hengtong Marine Cable System, AEI Cables, Nokia (Alcatel-Lucent) & Corning Cable Systems

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Wednesday, August 22, 2018
Submarine communications cable, Telecommunications equipment, Broadband, Australia–United States relations

The "US Submarine Cables - a Review and Forecast" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering.

Key Points: 
  • The "US Submarine Cables - a Review and Forecast" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering.
  • This report, perhaps uniquely, forecasts growth in traffic on US submarine cables by traffic source/sink areas (Europe, Asia, and Latin America.)
  • The new submarine cables are, of course, fiber optic based and handle up to nearly 200 Terabits per second!
  • There is a detailed discussion of the participation of the cloud computing and social network companies as owners and operators of submarine cables.