Southern Cross Cables Network

SubOptic 2013 Update

A reminder from SubOptic that SubOptic 2013 will be held in the Marriot Rive Gauche Hotel, Paris from April 22-25th, 2013 and hosted by Alcatel-Lucent. Read more

5 February 2012

Southern Cross Capacity Up and Price Down - Again

15 January 2012

The availability of international capacity on the Southern Cross network continues to expand and prices have fallen again. Southern Cross today announced the immediate availability of the first 200 Gigabits of capacity from its latest upgrade and a price reduction of up to 44 percent.

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Southern Cross supports broadband with Ciena upgrade

Southern Cross Cable Network today announced the selection of Ciena® Corporation (NASDAQ: CIEN) to expand capacity as part of its (Phase H) upgrade of its subsea cable network. To meet growing demand for high-bandwidth services and applications like video and cloud computing, which is now pushing its needs beyond 10 Gb/s wavelengths, Southern Cross Cables will increase capacity on all of its network segments between Australia, New Zealand and the United States, including one that spans more than 8,000 kilometers, with Ciena’s industry-leading 40G+ coherent optical solutions. Southern Cross Cable will also enhance its network’s survivability, efficiency, and intelligence with advanced bandwidth management and operations afforded by Ciena’s multi-protocol switching platform to future proof the network. Read more

Annual Customer Meeting - 2011

Southern Cross holds a Customer Meeting on an annual basis. This meeting is made up of the O&M (Operations and Maintenance Forum) and the AR&R (Assignment, Activation and Routing) Forum. Read more

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DID YOU KNOW?

Our network has 462 optical repeaters under the sea and each one cost more than a half million dollars.

Over 2,100 km of our cable is heavily armoured for added protection.

It took seven cable ships to lay our network.