Telstra, Singtel and SubPartners will soon build a new international submarine cable, APX-West, connecting Perth and Singapore. The companies on Thursday signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to begin building the submarine cable link by the end of July 2016. The cable – which is expected to be completed by 2018 – will span more than 4,500 kilometres carrying traffic between Australia and Singapore. It will incorporate two fibre pairs providing two-way data transmission and each pair will have a minimum design capacity of 10 terabits per second, the companies said. SubPartners CEO, Bevan Slattery, said in a statement that the MOU is a major milestone for the project with the three organisations committing to purchase the entire available capacity on the system. “The APX-West system is a consortium cable with all the major players having access to ownership economics at the fraction of the cost of private cable ownership,” he said in a statement. “This is a unique commercial model for the Perth-Singapore route that will satisfy the ongoing bandwidth requirements of both network operators and internet content hosts.” The current data bridge between Singapore and Perth is carrier by the SEA-ME-WE 3 cable. Ooi Seng Keat, vice president, carrier services, group enterprise, at Singtel, said the new APX-West cable will provide network redundancy and the lowest latency from Australia to Southeast Asia, the Middle East and Europe. “Today, Singtel has one of the most extensive submarine cable infrastructures in the Asia-Pacific region. With these capabilities, the Singtel Group, including Optus, can meet customers’ growing data requirements for bandwidth-intensive applications such as unified communications, enterprise data exchange, internet TV and online gaming,” he said. Related content brandpost Resilient data backup and recovery is critical to enterprise success As global data volumes rise, business must prioritize their resiliency strategies. By Neal Weinberg Jun 01, 2023 4 mins Security brandpost Democratizing HPC with multicloud to accelerate engineering innovations Cloud for HPC is facilitating broader access to high performance computing and accelerating innovations and opportunities for all types of organizations. By Tanya O'Hara Jun 01, 2023 6 mins Multi Cloud brandpost Survey: Marketers embrace AI at expense of metaverse investments Generative artificial intelligence (GAI) has quickly rocked the world of marketing. Sitecore polled B2B marketers on their perceptions of GAI. Here’s what they said. By Dave O’Flanagan, Sitecore Jun 01, 2023 4 mins Artificial Intelligence news Zendesk to lay off another 8% of its staff, cites macroeconomic issues The new tranche of layoffs comes just six months after the company let go of 300 staffers and hired a new CEO in order to navigate its operations through macroeconomic distress. By Anirban Ghoshal Jun 01, 2023 3 mins CRM Systems IT Jobs Podcasts Videos Resources Events SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER From our editors straight to your inbox Get started by entering your email address below. Please enter a valid email address Subscribe