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Cable type
  
Fibre-optic

First traffic
  
October 2008

Lit capacity
  
80 gbit/s

Fate
  
Active

Design capacity
  
1.28 tbit/s

Built by
  
Alcatel-Lucent

The Telstra Endeavour is a submarine cable connecting Sydney and Hawaii. The cable went live in October 2008, with a capacity of 1.28 terabits per second in the future (currently at 80 gigabits per second.) It was proposed on 28 March 2007 by Telstra, the largest telecommunications carrier in Australia.

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Landing points

The landing points are:

  • Tamarama Beach, Sydney, Australia, with termination at Paddington, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
  • Keawaula, Wai'anae, Honolulu County, Oahu, Hawaii, US

    • History

    Telstra announced that the cable would connect Sydney and Hawaii with a 9,000 km link, the largest ever built and owned by an Australian company, providing a transmission capacity of 1.28 terabit/s to Hawaii. The cable will be linked to others from Hawaii to the US mainland.

    The manufacture and laying of the cable was the responsibility of Alcatel-Lucent, which also supplied Telstra's two cables across Bass Strait and its Tasman Sea (TASMAN 2) cable. Alcatel-Lucent is basing this turn-key project on the "Alcatel 1620 Light Manager"[1] Submarine Line Termination Equipment that uses Dense Wavelength-division Multiplexing (DWDM). No cost was revealed, however it is estimated around $300 million (AUD).

    References

    Telstra Endeavour Wikipedia
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