Cable type | Fibre-optic |
---|---|
Fate | Active |
First traffic | October 2008 |
Design capacity | 1.28 Tbit/s |
Lit capacity | 100 Gbit/s |
Built by | Alcatel-Lucent |
Landing points |
Tamarama Beach,
Sydney Waianae, Hawaii |
Area served | Pacific Ocean |
Owner(s) | Telstra |
Website | Telstra Endeavour Cable |
The Telstra Endeavour is a submarine cable connecting Sydney and Hawaii. The cable went live in October 2008, [1] with a capacity of 1.28 terabits per second in the future (currently at 100 gigabits per second.) It was proposed [2] [3] on 28 March 2007 by Telstra, the largest telecommunications carrier in Australia.
Initially with a lit capacity of 80 Gbit/s, Telstra announced an increased capacity to 100 Gbit/s in January 2015. [4]
The landing points are: [5]
Telstra announced that the cable would connect Sydney and Hawaii with a 9,000 km (5,600 mi) 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 [6] 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).