The Telstra Endeavour cable system between Sydney and Hawaii is 100 per cent Telstra-owned, the largest ever commissioned by an Australian company. It’s part of Telstra’s future planning to accommodate double digit growth rate of data and internet traffic between Australia and the USA.

Telstra Endeavour provides an improvement in latency over existing submarine cable systems. At 90ms (Sydney-Hawaii) and 138ms (Sydney-Los Angeles via Endeavour and AAG), it is now the shortest path from Australia to the USA.

Benefits

• Provides a fourth option for cable connectivity to the US, improving flexibility and reliability of existing networks.
• Integrated into the Telstra Global Next IP network, reducing latency while adding reliability and diversity to our market leading IP VPN, Global Internet Direct and Global VOIP services. This cable route has been added to our extensive range of routing options for our International Private Line and Ethernet Private Line services.

Technical specifications

Cable Capacity
Initial capacity 80 Gbps
Design capacity 1.28 Tbps
Latency
90ms (Sydney-Hawaii)
138ms (Sydney-Los Angeles) via Endeavour and Asia
American Gateway (AAG)
Cable Length
9120km
Cable Landing Stations
Landing: Tamarama Beach, Sydney
Termination: Paddington, Sydney
Landing & Termination: Keawaula, Hawaii
Fibre Pairs
2 fibre pairs
Interconnecting cable systems
Japan-US (JUS)
Asia America Gateway (AAG) – expected launch June 2009
Resilience
Single span optical cable system, with protection available via other systems

• Next generation cable system - Endeavour (PDF, 2mb)