The Telstra Endeavour is a

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connecting

Sydney Sydney ( ) is the capital city of the state of New South Wales, and the most populous city in both Australia and Oceania. Located on Australia's east coast, the metropolis surrounds Sydney Harbour and extends about towards the Blue Mountain ...

and

Hawaii Hawaii ( ; haw, Hawaii or ) is a state in the Western United States, located in the Pacific Ocean about from the U.S. mainland. It is the only U.S. state outside North America, the only state that is an archipelago, and the only stat ...

. The cable went live in October 2008, with a capacity of 1.28 terabits per second in the future (currently at 80 gigabits per second.) It was proposed on 28 March 2007 by

Telstra Telstra Group Limited is an Australian telecommunications company that builds and operates telecommunications networks and markets voice, mobile, internet access, pay television and other products and services. It is a member of the S&P/ASX 20 ...

, the largest telecommunications carrier in Australia.

Landing points

The landing points are: *

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, Sydney, Australia, with termination at

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* Keawaula,

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History

Telstra announced that the cable would connect Sydney and Hawaii with a 9,000 km link, the largest ever built and owned by an Australian company, providing a transmission capacity of 1.28

terabit The bit is the most basic unit of information in computing and digital communications. The name is a portmanteau of binary digit. The bit represents a logical state with one of two possible values. These values are most commonly represented a ...

/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

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, which also supplied Telstra's two cables across

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and its

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(

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Telstra awards Alcatel-Lucent 9,000 km submarine network contract to support IP network transformation strategy
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submarine line termination equipment that uses dense wavelength-division multiplexing ( DWDM#Dense_WDM, DWDM). No cost was revealed, however it is estimated around $300 million (AUD).

References

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Landing points

History

See also

References