The Telstra Endeavour is a submarine cable connecting

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and

Hawaii Hawaii ( ; ) is an island U.S. state, state of the United States, in the Pacific Ocean about southwest of the U.S. mainland. One of the two Non-contiguous United States, non-contiguous U.S. states (along with Alaska), it is the only sta ...

. The cable went live in October 2008, with a capacity of 1.28 terabits per second in the future (currently at 100 gigabits per second). It was proposed on 28 March 2007 by

Telstra Telstra Group Limited is an Australian telecommunications company that builds and operates telecommunications networks and markets related products and services. It is a member of the S&P/ASX 20 stock index, and is Australia's largest telecomm ...

, 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

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* 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 The bit is the most basic unit of information in computing and digital communication. The name is a portmanteau of binary digit. The bit represents a logical state with one of two possible values. These values are most commonly represented as ...

/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

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, through its subsidiary

Alcatel Submarine Networks Alcatel Submarine Networks (ASN) is a French company and one of the three world leaders in the manufacture and installation of submarine cables. It was a subsidiary of Alcatel, then Alcatel-Lucent, until it was acquired by the Finnish group No ...

, which also supplied Telstra's two cables across

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and its

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submarine line termination equipment that uses dense wavelength-division multiplexing ( DWDM#Dense_WDM, DWDM). No cost was revealed, however it is estimated around $300 million (AUD).

References

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Landing points

History

See also

References