Southern Cross Cable

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The route of the cables, the red are Submarine, The blue are Terrestrial.

The Southern Cross Cable, operated by a company named Southern Cross Cables Limited, is a trans-Pacific network of telecommunications cable. The network has 28900Km of submarine and 1600Km terrestrial fibre optic cables.

1 Landing points
2 Network Segments
- 2.1 Submarine
- 2.2 Terrestrial
3 Topology
4 Construction and ownership
5 External link

[edit] Landing points

Alexandria, NSW, Australia
Brookvale, NSW, Australia
Suva, Fiji
Whenuapai, New Zealand
Takapuna, New Zealand
Kahe Point, Hawaii, USA
Spencer Beach, Hawaii, USA
Hillsboro, Oregon, USA
San Jose, California, USA (Terrestrial Connection only)
Morro Bay, California, USA

[edit] Network Segments

The network comprises of 12 segments (Length of segment in brackets):

[edit] Submarine

A. Alexandria-Whenuapai (2280Km)
C. Takapuna-Spencer Beach (8000Km)
D. Spencer Beach-Morro Bay (4135Km)
F. Kahe Point-Hillsboro, Oregon (4540Km)
G1. Suva-Kahe Point (5830Km)
G2. Brookvale-Suva (3540Km)
I. Spencer Beach-Kahe Point (460Km)

[edit] Terrestrial

B. Whenuapai-Takapuna (15Km)
E. Hillsboro, Oregon-Morro Bay (1590Km)
- E1. Morro Bay-San Jose (350Km)
- E2. San Jose-Hillsboro, Oregon (1600Km)
H. Alexandria-Brookvale (30Km)

Diagram of cross section of the cable

[edit] Topology

The network topology is configured to have redundant paths and be self healing in case of physical damage.

In the cross section diagram shown:
A. Insulating high density polyethylene (17mm)
B. Copper tubing (8.3mm)
C. Steel wires
D. Optical fibers in water resistant jelly (2.3mm)

[edit] Construction and ownership

Construction of the cable began in July 1999, and was in use by customers by November 2000. Additional works and upgrades have since taken place to increase the network's capacity to 480 Gbit/s.

The company is owned by Telecom New Zealand (50%), SingTel (40%) and Verizon Business (10%).