{"id":177771,"date":"2021-08-16T06:03:55","date_gmt":"2021-08-16T01:03:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/9becc665-fb44-4546-bac8-a41e3d190de5"},"modified":"2021-08-16T06:03:55","modified_gmt":"2021-08-16T01:03:55","slug":"vocus-to-link-up-subsea-cables-to-create-darwin-jakarta-singapore-cable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.technologyforyou.org\/vocus-to-link-up-subsea-cables-to-create-darwin-jakarta-singapore-cable\/","title":{"rendered":"Vocus to link up subsea cables to create Darwin-Jakarta-Singapore Cable"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"image image-original shortcode-image\"><span class=\"img aspect-set \"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/a\/hub\/i\/r\/2021\/08\/16\/627da73c-0f85-4325-8706-d12bf3d7cb8e\/resize\/1200xauto\/65cfa1796a3448626ac5a31079673791\/vocus-djsc.png\" class alt=\"vocus-djsc.png\" height=\"auto\" width=\"1200\"><\/span><figcaption><span class=\"caption\"><\/span><span class=\"credit\"> Image: Vocus <\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Vocus announced on Monday it has signed construction contracts worth AU$100 million that will see a 1,000-kilometre link span the North-West Cable System and Australia Singapore Cable to create the Darwin-Jakarta-Singapore Cable (DJSC). <\/p>\n<p>Once completed by mid-2023, DJSC will be a AU$500 million network linking Perth, Darwin, Port Hedland, Christmas Island, Jakarta, and Singapore. <\/p>\n<p>At Port Hedland, the cable will connect to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/vocus-turning-to-sovereignty-as-its-competitive-advantage\/\">Project Horizon cable<\/a>, running from Perth via Newman, Meekatharra, and Geraldton. <\/p>\n<p>Vocus also announced on Monday it has&nbsp;completed its project to put 200Gbps per wavelength technology into its Adelaide-Darwin-Brisbane fibre network. The company said its routes now have 20Tbps of capacity, for 480Tbps in total, and it was planning to deploy 400Gbps when it became commercially available. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve delivered Terabit Territory &#8212; a 25-times increase in capacity into Darwin. We&#8217;ve delivered a submarine cable from Darwin to the Tiwi Islands. We&#8217;re progressing Project Horizon &#8212; a new 2,000km fibre connection from Perth to Port Hedland and onto Darwin. And today we&#8217;ve announced the Darwin-Jakarta-Singapore Cable, the first international submarine connection into Darwin,&#8221; Vocus Group managing director and CEO Kevin Russell said. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No other telecoms operator comes close to this level of investment in high-capacity fibre infrastructure.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>In June, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/vocus-officially-acquired-by-mira-aware-super-consortium-for-au3-5-billion\/\">purchase of Vocus<\/a> for AU$3.5 billion was completed by the consortium of Macquarie Infrastructure and Real Assets and superannuation fund Aware Super. <\/p>\n<h3>Related Coverage<\/h3>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/vocus-to-link-up-subsea-cables-to-create-darwin-jakarta-singapore-cable\/#ftag=RSSbaffb68\">Source Link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image: Vocus Vocus announced on Monday it has signed construction contracts worth AU$100 million that will see a 1,000-kilometre link span the North-West Cable System and Australia Singapore Cable to create the Darwin-Jakarta-Singapore Cable (DJSC). Once completed by mid-2023, DJSC will be a AU$500 million network linking Perth, Darwin, Port Hedland, Christmas Island, Jakarta, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14083],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-177771","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-technology-industry-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyforyou.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyforyou.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyforyou.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyforyou.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyforyou.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyforyou.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177771\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyforyou.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyforyou.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyforyou.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}