Evolution of Asia Pacific Subsea Cable Capacity a Golden Age for APAN's R&E Community
Evolution of Asia Pacific subsea cable capacity A golden age for APAN’s R&E community Yves Poppe BBC meeting (BackBone Committee) APAN 47 February 18th-22 2018, Daejon, Rep of Korea AARnet co-owner on the Indigo and JGA cables! REANNZ anchor tenant on Hawaiki • The Indigo cable will run from Perth to Singapore and the JGA cable will connect Japan, Guam and Australia (Sydney). • The Indigo consortium comprises Google, Singtel, Telstra, Indonesia’s Indosat Ooredoo, Superloop and AARNet. It will be supplied by Nokia’s Alcatel Submarine Networks (ASN), RFS: mid 2019 • Each of the two fibre pairs will have a capacity of 18Tbps, with future increases possible. AARnet’s spectrum ownership will give it a staggering potential of 3Tbps between Australia and Singapore!! • The JGA partners include Google, AARnet and RTI-C, will be supplied by Alcatel and NEC, 36Tbps capacity, RFS Q4 2019 • REANNZ has a 25-year anchor tenancy on Hawaiki on behalf of the New Zealand government. Two APAN members own Terabits worth of subsea cable capacity, awesome, congratulations! Other key APAN members should follow their lead! Pg 2 Consortium confirms completion of Indigo AARNet, Google, Indosat, Ooredoo, Singtel, SubPartners and Telstra have confirmed the completion of the Indigo West and Central subsea cable systems. The consortium confirms that the commissioning period has now begun and on-track for its ready for service date of mid-2019. “This is an exciting time for AARNet, added Chris Hancock, CEO of AARNet. “Indigo is the first in a number of significant investments for research and education in Australia.
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