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	Southern Cross Cable - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Southern Cross Cable, operated by a company named Southern Cross Cables, is a trans-Pacific network of submarine fibre optic cables.
		Construction of the cable began in July 1999, and was in use by customers by November 2000.
		Additional works and upgrades have since taken place to increase the network's capacity to 480 Gbit/s.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Southern_Cross_Cable (142 words)

	Southern Cross (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Southern Cross is the English name of Crux Australis, a constellation visible in the Southern Hemisphere.
		Southern Cross (aircraft), the Fokker F.VIIB/3m flown by pioneer aviator Sir Charles Kingsford Smith
		Southern Cross is Celine Jules' second-strongest magic spell in Star Ocean 2.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Southern_Cross_(disambiguation) (268 words)

	Major internet artery to get surgery - CENTRAL NORTH ISLAND : BUSINESS - STORY : New Zealand's leading news and ...
		Southern Cross Cable Network will decide next year whether to lay a new stretch of cable that could carry terabits of data a second either direct from New Zealand and Australia to the US or via a hub in Asia.
		Southern Cross Cable Network is half owned by Telecom, with Singtel Optus holding 40 per cent and US carrier Verizon 10 per cent and is headquartered in Bermuda.
		Southern Cross denies profiteering, saying in a statement that while the future of the business is thought to be positive, this is "set against the background of rapidly reducing capacity prices" as well as the likely cost of the forthcoming upgrade.
	stuff.co.nz /centralnorthisland/0,2106,3747879a13938,00.html (744 words)

	Southern Cross Cable Triples Network Bandwidth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Trans-Pacific telecommunications cableco Southern Cross Cable Network today (May 8) announced it had completed the upgrade of its 30,500 km cable system.
		Southern Cross spokesman Ross Pfeffer said that the cable would be further upgraded to 80 Gbit/second in Q3 ’01, and 240 Gbit/second sometime in ‘02.
		Southern Cross is 50% owned by New Zealand’s Telecom Corp., 40% owned by Australia’s Cable & Wireless Optus, and 10% by MCI Worldcom.
	www.kagan.com /archive/kagan/2001/05/08/southern.shtml (108 words)

	OFCC -Cable Locations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		On July 9th, 1998, WCI Cable, Inc. entered into an historic cooperative agreement with Oregon fishermen outlining the duties and responsibilities of each in relation to a new fiber-optic communications cable to be laid in the Pacific Ocean just north of Rockaway Beach, Oregon.
		The three Tyco cables landing in Oregon are part of a 'ring' of Tyco transpacific cables, which connect Oregon to east Asia and southern California.
		The cables are covered under the terms of a fishing agreement between Tyco Telecommunications and the Oregon Fishermen’s Cable Committee.
	www.ofcc.com /cable_locations.htm (606 words)

	OFCC -Cable Locations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Under an agreement with the Oregon Fishermen's Cable Committee, this cable was to be completely buried through the fishing grounds, allowing OFCC participating fishermen to trawl over the cable, provided that they observe certain operating procedures while fishing near the cable.
		The Oregon Fishermen's Cable Committee is working with the cable owners and the installer to create a long-term solution to these problem areas, and preparations for a repair next summer have already begun.
		The owners of the cable have committed to bring a special ROV sub with advanced trenching equipment, and have agreed to give their best effort at finding a route that will eliminate or greatly reduce the problem areas.
	www.ofcc.com /sc_nofishing.htm (525 words)

	Southern Cross - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Southern Cross tackles growing bandwidth demands with Nortel optical solution; Employs broad range of Nortel global services for U.S. West Coast deployment.
		Southern Cross Tackles Growing Bandwidth Demands with Nortel Optical Solution.
		New Board for Southern Cross and Aflease Capital Raising.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/X/X-SthrnCr.asp (155 words)

	Cable network makes sales of $US218m - Breaking News - Business - Breaking News
		Southern Cross Cable Network has announced new capacity sales of $US218 million for the period March to October 2005.
		Southern Cross Cable - which is majority-owned by Telecom Corp of New Zealand and Optus - operates a fibre optic cable which travels in a loop between Sydney, Auckland, Hawaii, Fiji and the west coast of the United States.
		She said Southern Cross had sold over 40 per cent of its recently expanded capability and the demand outlook was so strong "it raises a question about the need for another capacity expansion".
	www.smh.com.au /news/Business/Cable-network-makes-sales-of-US218m/2005/11/03/1130823336106.html (349 words)

	Cable Fills Satellite Gaps For Australian ISP - Technology News by TechWeb
		The company announced Thursday that it would pay $12.6 million to use the Southern Cross undersea cable when it is completed over two years.
		Ozemail will use the Southern Cross cable to carry 45 megabits per second of traffic for four years, increasing to 90 Mbps for an additional 11 years, with an option to extend the deal another five years if it wants.
		The 80-gigabit Southern Cross cable is being built at a cost of about $1 billion, from Sydney, Australia, to Auckland, New Zealand, then to California.
	www.techweb.com /wire/story/TWB19980424S0011 (513 words)

	theage.com.au - The Age
		The Southern Cross Cable Network says its expects minimal impact on its submarine cable operation from ongoing problems at WorldCom, which holds a 10 per cent stake in the network.
		Southern Cross Asia Pacific director Ross Pfeffer said there would likely be little fallout on the cable operations from the debacle surrounding Worldcom, which has admitted to multi-billion dollar accounting irregularities.
		The cable is 50 per cent-owned by Telecom Corp of New Zealand, 40 per cent by Optus and its owner Singapore Telecommunications Ltd and 10 per cent by Worldcom.
	www.theage.com.au /articles/2002/06/27/1023864626554.html (604 words)

	REACH : Network : Overview
		The Southern Cross Cable System is a 30,500km privately owned cable system directly connecting Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, and Hawaii to the west coast of the United States.
		Southern Cross is a two-cable network interlinked between the Hawaiian landing points that are used for the Hawaii-U.S. and Australia-New Zealand rings.
		The SeaMeWe-3 consortium cable is a two-fiber pair cable extending 38,000km from Germany to Singapore, Australia and Korea via the Middle East.
	www.reach.com /network/overview.php (804 words)

	CSC Questions and Answers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Prior to burial, the cable will first be laid directly on the seabed surface the entire length of the route within a precise corridor.
		The cable is wrapped in swelling tape, which will prevent water from reaching the conductor portion of the cable.
		Because the cable is designed and constructed using solid cable technology, there are no fluids within the cable for insulation or any other purpose, and there is no possible danger of leakage of hazardous cooling fluids.
	www.crosssoundcable.com /QA1.htm (2309 words)

	Southern Cross Cable Network commissions third US access point - smh.com.au
		The Southern Cross Cable Network today said it has commissioned a third terrestrial US access point for its undersea cable that links Australia and New Zealand to the United States.
		The cable is a 30,500-kilometre fibre loop connecting Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, Hawaii and California.
		Southern Cross Asia-Pacific director Ross Pfeffer said the new US point will substantially improve access for Southern Cross customers into key Internet and telecommunications markets in the United States such as Silicon Valley and San Francisco.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2002/08/19/1029114069316.html (412 words)

	All Systems Go For Southern Cross
		The announcement follows the successful completion of trials to ensure reliable performance from the launch of the cable on November 15 to the end of the system's design life in 2025.
		The entering into service of the Southern Cross Cable Network will mark the end of more than two years of manufacturing, construction and testing for the Southern Cross project team and their suppliers, Alcatel and Fujitsu.
		Since the cable first landed in Sydney on July 8, 1999 SCCN has used seven cable ships to lay 28,500km of undersea cable and over 500 optical repeaters to link four countries, including three U.S. states.
	www.internetnews.com /bus-news/print.php/3_506111 (336 words)

	SingTel.com - Network & Infrastructure // Submarine Cable Systems
		The Southern Cross cable lit up in November 2000 removing the bandwidth bottleneck between Australasia and the United States.
		Originally designed to deliver 120 Gbps of fully protected capacity, Southern Cross was expanded in the first quarter of 2003 to 240 Gbps, with the potential of increasing total protected network capacity to 480 Gbps.
		Southern Cross now has the potential to provide for Australasia's bandwidth requirements for the next five years, delivering 480 times the capacity of the PacRim system - enough to transfer a 3 km-high stack of typed documents or eight full-length motion pictures every second.
	home.singtel.com /about_singtel/network_n_infrastructure/submarine_cable_systems/networkinfra_submarinecablesystems.asp (785 words)

	Computerworld > Companies sign up for share of 200Gbit/s Southern Cross cable
		Southern Cross Cable Networks, the company which owns the Southern Cross fibre optic cable currently being laid between Australia and New Zealand, will announce pricing for capacity on the cable in Hawaii next month.
		At 200Gbit/s, the Southern Cross cable will have enough capacity to carry nearly 1.5 million simultaneous telephone conversations or a mix of voice, data and video traffic.
		The Southern Cross cable will add to New Zealand's current submarine cable links - Tasman 1 and Tasman 2 to Australia, ANZCAN to the US and PacRim West and PacRim East to the US, all of which have less than one gigabit capacity each.
	computerworld.co.nz /news.nsf/UNID/CC256CED0016AD1ECC25684C000D8A08?opendocument (382 words)

	Nortel Networks: Nortel Networks to Build U.S. Terrestrial Optical Network for Southern Cross Cables
		Southern Cross Cables Limited (www.southerncrosscables.com) is an independent company responsible for the design, construction, marketing and management of the Southern Cross Cable Network.
		The Southern Cross network entered service in November 2000 and consists of two separate submarine cables linking Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, Hawaii and the west coast of the United States.
		Southern Cross’ investment in a second link between California and Oregon is in line with the company’s strategy to ensure the resilience of its overall network is improved.
	www.nortelnetworks.com /corporate/news/newsreleases/2001c/08_06_0101530_southern_cross.html (886 words)

	Computerworld \| Sunday cable break spares Australia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Southern Cross Cable Network suffered a break in its Australia-U.S. cable on Sunday but the impact to customers was limited by the fortunate weekend timing, a spokesman for the company said.
		That second cable was out of action undergoing maintenance at the time of the break, which occurred 20 kilometers from Sydney during a major storm.
		If Southern Cross had not had a back-up cable, forming a 30,500-kilometer protected loop network, the disruption would have been more like 15 days, the time it is expected to take to repair the cable, Pfeffer said.
	www.computerworld.com.au /index.php/id;2013285598;fp;512;fpid;1147453977 (578 words)

	Net4TV Voice: Astronomy: Southern Cross
		This time we are featuring The Southern Cross (Crux), the most familiar constellation in the Southern Hemisphere.
		Apart from the four bright stars that form the cross, the constellation's stars are generally fourth-magnitude.
		Over time, precession has brought the cross far to the south; it is no longer visible at latitudes north of 25 degrees.
	www.net4tv.com /voice/story.cfm?storyid=3683 (535 words)

	Asia Times: Undersea cable to bridge the hemispheric divide
		Cable & Wireless Optus Ltd, a major stakeholder in the 30,500 kilometer undersea cable, on Tuesday confirmed the network would commence service on schedule.
		Under construction for several years, the network is one of the longest undersea cables in the world and is designed to take up the explosion in Internet use and improve access to video and audio data services.
		Telecom NZ said it expected to receive a $100 million benefit from in dividend stream from its half share in the Southern Cross Cable in the financial year to June 30, 2001.
	www.atimes.com /oceania/BK15Ah03.html (358 words)

	Winne.com - Welcome
		Cable and Wireless has been here since 1902 operating the international communications over the years up until 1976.
		Cable and Wireless values the long-term relationship with the Fiji government and has played a major role in developing communication facilities in the country.
		The main contribution is the power of the Cable and Wireless group and its world wide reach, operating in 70 countries.
	www.winne.com /fiji/to11interview.html (2728 words)

	Whirlpool News - Southern Cross Cable damaged?
		Update: According to AARNet, engineers at Cable & Wireless Optus have announced that the the Southern Cross cable is carrying traffic as per normal.
		There is no news as yet from Southern Cross about when it will be fixed, but given the bad weather off Sydney's coast at the moment, the source doubts it will be very soon.
		I'm led to understand that the cable break is located some 32 nautical miles off sydney, now I wonder how many of you are aware of just how bad the weather has been at sea in the Sydney area..
	whirlpool.net.au /article.cfm?id=386&show=replies (2315 words)

	Aloha and Welcome to the Maui Economic Development Board
		The islands of Hawaii are the hub of a diversified network of trans-Pacific cable (both fiber optic and analog), satellite communications, cellular and wireless services.
		Within the state, there are more than 55,740 km of cable currently installed, with an additional 94,581 km coming on-line -- the largest planned for any region.
		Southern Cross Cable Network was designed to remove the bandwidth bottleneck between Australasia and North America.
	www.medb.org /communityprofile/telecom.cfm (489 words)

	link.archive.0011: [LINK] Southern Cross cable (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		SOUTHERN Cross Cable Network will light up 30,500 kilometres of cable tomorrow linking Australia, New Zealand, the United States and Fiji.
		The $US1.2 billion ($A1.89 billion) data cable network was expected to remove the bandwidth bottleneck between Australasia and the United States..
		Southern Cross had already signed up 34 customers, mainly telcos but also a few large ISPs based in Australia, New Zealand, the US, South-East Asia and Europe..
	www.anu.edu.au /mail-archives/link/link0011/0289.html (249 words)

	Fiji FO Landings. Seaworks New Zealand Ltd. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		It was landed on the shore to be terminated at the manhole in front of the cable receiving station.
		Cable is loaded off the barge and floated ashore.
		Divers using water jets, buried 1500 metres of each cable to a depth of 0.6 metre, after which both were buried to a depth of 1 metre from the low water mark to the manhole, a distance of 800 metres.
	www.seaworks.co.nz /Text/fiji.htm (173 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Southern Cross, a consortium of investors that built the network to bypass Internet-access bottlenecks in the United States, said the new cable is operating at a fraction of its designed capacity, which they plan to expand over the next two years.
		The first major upgrade for Southern Cross’ cable is planned for March.
		Pfeffer said Southern Cross has signed up 34 customers worldwide for its transpacific cable, with each paying an estimated one-time $910,000 hookup fee and $95,000 annually for maintenance.
	the.honoluluadvertiser.com /2000/Nov/15/1115business14.html (475 words)

	Did You Notice Our Big Pipes? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Primary connections to the commodity Internet and Internet2, the high-speed advanced network, are now serviced by fiber installed by the Southern Cross Cable Network that spans the Pacific Ocean.
		The Southern Cross cable is fully protected and provides network availability of greater than 99.999%.
		The fiber cable is brought to shore at Kahe Point on Oahu.
	www.hawaii.edu /infobits/s2002/pipes.html (682 words)

	Australia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		A southern ring of Segments A, B, C, I, G1, G2 and H. Total cumulative length of the segments is approximately 30,500km.
		This cable, while not carrying traffic was formed by cutting and joining the Sydney-Southport and the Southport-Norfolk Island Cables in 1970.
		A list of these cables is not available, although their as-laid positions are shown on the various New Zealand national Navigational Charts.
	www.iscpc.org /cabledb/aus_cabl_page.htm (1550 words)

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