| Cable type | Fibre-optic |
|---|---|
| Fate | Active |
| Construction beginning | 1999 |
| Construction finished | 2000 |
| First traffic | 2000 |
| Design capacity | >20 Tbit/s (Jan 2020, based on 100G+ Technology) |
| Lit capacity | 92 Tbit/s (2023) |
| Built by | Alcatel-Lucent/Fujitsu |
| Area served | Southern Pacific, US Pacific coast |
| Owner(s) | Southern Cross Cables Limited (Spark, Singtel/Optus, Telstra, Verizon Business) |
| Website | www |
The Southern Cross Cable is a trans-Pacific network of telecommunications cables commissioned in 2000. The network is operated by the Bermuda-registered company Southern Cross Cables Limited. The network has 28,900 km (18,000 mi) of submarine and 1,600 km (990 mi) of terrestrial fiber optic cables, all which operate in a triple-ring configuration. Initially, each cable had a bandwidth capacity of 120 gigabit/s. Southern Cross offers capacity services from 100M/STM-1 to 100 Gbit/s OTU-4, including 1G, 10G and 40G Ethernet Private Line services.