Telstra Endeavour
The Telstra Endeavour is a submarine cable connecting Sydney and Hawaii. The cable went live in October 2008, with a capacity of 1.28 terabits per second in the future. It was proposed on 28 March 2007 by Telstra, the largest telecommunications carrier in Australia.
Initially with a lit capacity of 80 Gbit/s, Telstra announced an increased capacity to 100 Gbit/s in January 2015.
Landing points
The landing points are:- Tamarama Beach, Sydney, Australia, with termination at Paddington
- Keawaula, Waianae, Hawaii
History
Telstra announced that the cable would connect Sydney and Hawaii with a link, the largest ever built and owned by an Australian company, providing a transmission capacity of 1.28 terabit/s to Hawaii. The cable will be linked to others from Hawaii to the US mainland.The manufacture and laying of the cable was the responsibility of Alcatel-Lucent, through its subsidiary Alcatel Submarine Networks, which also supplied Telstra's two cables across Bass Strait and its Tasman Sea cable. Alcatel-Lucent is basing this turn-key project on the "Alcatel 1620 Light Manager" submarine line termination equipment that uses dense wavelength-division multiplexing. No cost was revealed, however it is estimated around $300 million.