Southern Cross NEXT submarine cable lands in Hermosa Beach, CA
Pacific Carriage Limited Inc. (PCL), which owns the Southern Cross Cable Network in the U.S., has announced that its new Southern Cross NEXT cable (SX NEXT) undersea cable has landed at the HMB IX facility in Hermosa Beach, CA. PCL expects the SX NEXT cable to be ready for service next year.
SX NEXT will offer 72 Tbps of capacity between the U.S., Australia, and New Zealand, with branches to Fiji, Tokelau, and Kiribati. The submarine cable will connect into Southern Cross’ existing data center locations in Los Angeles (Equinix LA1 and CoreSite LA1) and Silicon Valley (Equinix SV1, Equinix SV8 and CoreSite SV1). In addition to complementing PCL’s existing Southern Cross infrastructure, SX NEXT also will represent the first direct submarine cable link between the U.S. and Tokelau and Kiribati.
“Once completed early next year, SX NEXT will further enhance our existing Southern Cross fully diverse network and will increase interconnect options for key Oceania markets to major content hubs in the United States via an ecosystem of 12 cable stations and eight key data centre hubs in Australia and the United States, spanning six countries and eight time zones, all interconnected by over 45,000 km of cable,” commented PCL CEO Laurie Miller. “It can be easy to lose sight of the complexity and magnitude of engineering involved in building what is arguably the longest single-span submarine cable in the world; however, the efforts of the highly skilled teams in Southern Cross and our partners such as HMB IX demonstrate what can be achieved through the power of teamwork.”
The HMB IX cable landing station in Hermosa Beach offers multiple dark fiber backhaul routes to downtown Los Angeles. PCL also has worked with Pioneer Consulting on the project. In addition to providing senior consulting services (see "Construction of Southern Cross NEXT submarine cable set to begin"), Pioneer served as shipboard representatives, supervising cable loading, freighter transfer, laying operations, post-lay inspection and burial, and shore-end landings such as this one. Ciena is providing the optical transmission equipment (see "Southern Cross to use Ciena GeoMesh Extreme on NEXT submarine cable system").
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