Los Angeles, USA– Independent submarine capacity provider, Pacific Carriage Limited Inc. (“PCL”), owner of the Southern Cross Cable Network in the USA (“Southern Cross”), today celebrated a key milestone with the landing of the Southern Cross NEXT cable (“SX NEXT”) at the HMB IX facility in Hermosa Beach, California.
SX NEXT will expand the capacity of USA to Oceania global connectivity by up to an additional 72 terabits per second, providing the largest capacity, express route to ever link the United States with Australia and New Zealand. The increase is the equivalent to streaming more than 4.5 million 4K videos simultaneously or downloading the entire US Library of Congress in less than 1.5 seconds and represents a significant increase in international connectivity from the current total market capability.
PCL CEO, Mr. Laurie Miller said, “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 8 key data centre hubs in Australia and the United States, spanning 6 countries and 8 time zones, all interconnected by over 45,000 kilometres of cable.”
“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.”
“Our relationship with HMB IX goes back many years. PCL selected HMB IX for SX NEXT due to their expertise in delivering and managing submarine cable landings and cable landing stations, and their onward connectivity to our existing data centre locations in Los Angeles.”
HMB IX is the owner and operator of carrier-neutral submarine cable landing assets and the cable landing station facility in Hermosa Beach, California, with multiple dark fibre backhaul routes to extend its customers’ connectivity to downtown Los Angeles, California.
HMB IX CEO, Mr. Brett Lay said, “We are thrilled to be involved with PCL and the SX NEXT project, expanding route connectivity from the USA to Oceania. Our team’s strong capabilities in managing and facilitating all aspects of permitting, landing, operating and maintaining submarine cable systems has proven itself to be a key factor for landing several major transpacific submarine cable systems, with more to follow.”
HMB IX Senior Vice President, Mr. Chris Brungardt said, “The importance of local relationships cannot be overstated in the successful completion of these large scales of projects. Our relationships with the residents and leaders of the City of Hermosa Beach that have been developed over many years are critical to the successful landing achieved today.”
SX NEXT will form a third route in the Southern Cross network ecosystem connecting the United States with Australia, Fiji, Tokelau, Kiribati and New Zealand. Southern Cross currently provides the lowest latency links between Auckland and Los Angeles, and Sydney, and the addition of the SX NEXT route will further enhance the capability of these key routes.
SX NEXT will interconnect into Southern Cross’ existing data centre locations in Los Angeles (Equinix LA1 and CoreSite LA1) and Silicon Valley (Equinix SV1, Equinix SV8 and CoreSite SV1), and will also provide the United States’ first direct fibre optic cable link with Tokelau and Kiribati.
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About Pacific Carriage Limited Inc.
Pacific Carriage Limited Inc. (Delaware) owns the Southern Cross Cable Network in the USA (“Southern Cross”) providing fast, direct, and secure international bandwidth from Australia, New Zealand, and Hawaii to the heart of the internet in the USA. The Southern Cross Cable Network comprises two existing submarine communications cables with the new Southern Cross NEXT route due to be completed in early 2022. Southern Cross provides high-speed, low-latency, resilient international connections to the West Coast of the United States, where global internet hubs are located. Southern Cross has offices in Bermuda, Sydney, Auckland and Wellington.
To get know more about Southern Cross’ network solutions, please contact Mosaic Networx (www.mosaicnetworx.com) in the USA, or directly to Southern Cross atwww.southerncrosscables.com
PCL/Southern Cross Media Contact
Media Manager
+1.441.296.5659
media@sccn.co.nz
About HMB IX
HMB IX is the owner and operator of carrier-neutral submarine cable landing assets and the cable landing station facility in Hermosa Beach, California. HMB IX provides diverse landings for multiple submarine cables and onward connectivity via multiple dark fibre routes to major data centres located in downtown, Los Angeles, California.
HMB IX Media Contact
Chris Brungardt
+1.916.949.9141
chris.brungardt@hmbix.com
Media Contact
Company Name
Pacific Carriage Limited
Contact Name
Craige Sloots
Phone
+1 441 296 5659
Address
22 Church Street
City
HAMILTON
State
Bermuda
Country
United States
Website
https://www.southerncrosscables.com/
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