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Honolulu, Hawaii – January 15, 2023 – Southern Cross Cables Limited (“Southern Cross”), Australasia’s specialist international capacity provider today announced the availability of commercial 400GbE services on its Southern Cross NEXT (“NEXT”) cable, between Australia, New Zealand and the United States.

National Harbour, Maryland – May 15, 2023 – Following from the launch of 400GbE Layer 1 services in January, Southern Cross Cables Limited (“Southern Cross”), announces the availability of 400GbE Layer 2 services to be available in the second half of 2023.

SUVA, Fiji – 15 March 2023 – Ciena (NYSE: CIEN), Digicel Fiji and Southern Cross have jointly launched Project Semata, an initiative to provide high-speed internet access and online learning resources to three schools in Savusavu, Fiji. The initiative will give dedicated direct 10Mbps internet access to the Digicel Fiji network to all students and teachers at the Kamendra School, Savusavu Secondary School and St. Bedes Secondary School.

Southern Cross, Alcatel Submarine Networks and OMS Group have signed the SX Tasman Express “SX-TX” subsea supply contract, connecting Sydney (Australia) to Auckland (New Zealand).

Singapore - [23 September 2025] — Southern Cross Cables Limited today confirmed the successful completion of several critical milestones for its flagship Tasman Express subsea cable project, a cutting-edge subsea cable system directly connecting Sydney and Auckland. Designed to meet the surging demand for trans-Tasman data capacity, Tasman Express will deliver high-speed, low-latency connectivity that redefines the digital relationship between Australia and New Zealand.

Southern Cross Cable Limited (“Southern Cross”) has connected the world’s first transpacific 1 Tb/s single-carrier wavelength across its 13,500km live production network with Ciena’s (NYSE: CIEN) WaveLogic 6 Extreme (WL6e) coherent optics. The connectivity milestone saw WL6e perform effortlessly at 1 Tb/s over the world’s longest single optical submarine cable segment and demonstrates the adaptive nature of Southern Cross’ network.