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Telecommunications Southern Cross upgrades capacity on US submarine cable
Telecommunications Southern Cross upgrades capacity on US submarine cable | Southern Cross upgrades capacity on US submarine cable |
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| by Stuart Corner | |
| Thursday, 23 August 2007 | |
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Page 1 of 3 The upgrade requires only the replacement of transmission equipment in each of the 10 cable stations. The new equipment can deliver 400Gbps per fibre pair; a tenfold increase over the equipment it will replace. There is no need to replace any of the 28,500kms of undersea cable or to upgrade any of the 500 undersea repeaters that regenerate optical transmission signals. Veverka added: "The new transmission equipment will support a wider range of transmission products including SONET and gigabit ethernet interfaces that are more suited to ISPs with large broadband subscriber bases. To augment the restoration that our two cable network already offer we will also be installing equipment in our 2,300km US terrestrial network that will provide automated loop restoration in the event of terrestrial outages." Southern Cross director of sales and marketing, Ross Pfeffer, said "Recent and rapid adoption of ADSL2+ in Australia and the growth in broadband users in both Australia and New Zealand has been accompanied by higher data entitlements for many residential subscribers. The consequent demand for our capacity has been extremely high so our latest upgrade is just in time." |
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