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 100 gigabits per second). It was proposedTelstra Media Release, "Telstra continues aggressive investment with Australia to USA connection", 28 March 2007Rossi, Sandra, "Telstra unveils largest submarine cable connection to US – 9000km from Sydney to Hawaii", Computerworld, 29 March 2007 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.
Landing points The landing points are: Tamarama Beach, Sydney, Australia, with termination at Paddington Keawaula, Waianae, Hawaii
History Telstra announced that the cable would connect Sydney and Hawaii with a 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, through its subsidiary Alcatel Submarine Networks, which also supplied Telstra's two cables across Bass Strait and its Tasman Sea (Tasman 2) cable. Alcatel-Lucent is basing this turn-key projectAlcatel-Lucent media release Telstra awards Alcatel-Lucent 9,000 km submarine network contract to support IP network transformation strategy, Paris, 28 March 2007 on the "Alcatel 1620 Light Manager" submarine line termination equipment that uses dense wavelength-division multiplexing (DWDM). No cost was revealed, however it is estimated around $300 million (AUD).
See also List of international submarine communications cables
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