Southern Cross Cable

Southern Cross Cable
Cable typeFibre-optic
FateActive
Construction beginning1999
Construction finished2000
First traffic2000
Design capacity>20 Tbit/s (Jan 2020, based on 100G+ Technology)
Lit capacity92 Tbit/s (2023)
Built byAlcatel-Lucent/Fujitsu
Area servedSouthern Pacific, US Pacific coast
Owner(s)Southern Cross Cables Limited (Spark, Singtel/Optus, Telstra, Verizon Business)
Websitewww.southerncrosscables.com
The route of the cables. The blue are submarine; the red are terrestrial.

The Southern Cross Cable is a trans-Pacific network of telecommunications cables commissioned in 2000. The network is operated by the Bermuda-registered company Southern Cross Cables Limited. The network has 28,900 km (18,000 mi) of submarine and 1,600 km (990 mi) of terrestrial fiber optic cables, all which operate in a triple-ring configuration. Initially, each cable had a bandwidth capacity of 120 gigabit/s. Southern Cross offers capacity services from 100M/STM-1 to 100 Gbit/s OTU-4, including 1G, 10G and 40G Ethernet Private Line services.