Upgrade for high-speed broadband

The Southern Cross Cable Network is supporting the move to high-speed broadband in Australia and New Zealand with the completion of the first stage of a big capacity upgrade.

Southern Cross director of sales and marketing Ross Pfeffer said that on 31 March Southern Cross lit up another 260 Gbits of capacity or 130 Gbps on each of its two submarine fibre-optic cables that directly connect both Australia and New Zealand to the US internet. When completed later this year, the current upgrade will take our total installed capacity to 860 Gbps. 

“The current upgrade allows each fibre pair to provide 10 times more capacity, lowers capacity cost, enhances the network's resilience and increases the range of services we can provide.  Starting last September, the upgrade was carefully executed with no disruptions to customer and internet services,” Pfeffer said. 

“The current upgrade and our new pricing are designed to support the big move to high-speed broadband in both Australia and New Zealand. High-speed broadband requires both capacity cost to reduce and capacity supply to each subscriber to increase considerably. Our upgrades make this possible and the impact is already evident with existing and new customers recently making substantial capacity purchases from Southern Cross to support the high-speed broadband services they provide.”