Morgan, Tindall, Drury in new Pacific fibre drive

It will enable easy connectivity to the Pacific network by providing access at major CBD POPs (points of presence) for customers, for example. Sydney, Auckland, Wellington and Los Angeles.

The proposed cable configuration would be 13,000 km long, and have two fibre pairs with 64 wavelengths (lambdas) each at 40 Gbits/s per lambda. The maximum lit capacity initially would be 5.12 Terabits/sec, but would be upgradeable to over 12 Tbit/s as the emerging 100 Gbit/s per lambda technology becomes reality.

The newer cable and repeater technology that Pacific Fibre proposes to use will be substantially more easily upgradeable than that of existing cables.

Pacific Fibre will seek to work alongside existing industry players and also seek to aggregate any existing initiatives into a unified project.