Telstra and Alcatel Launch Internet Capacity Between Australia and US
April 9, 2008
Telstra and Alcatel-Lucent have demonstrated a new 9,000 kilometer submarine cable that will increase internet capacity between Australia and the US.
The new cable, which will be landed at Tamarama Beach, Sydney, can be scaled up to 1.28 Terabits per second capacity between the two countries. At full capacity the cable is capable of carrying 160,000 concurrent high definition television channels.
Kate McKenzie, group managing director of Telstra Wholesale, said: “The explosion of user-generated online content means we need more capacity than ever before with the US, which is already the destination for two-thirds of all Australian traffic on the internet.”