Southern Cross NEXT submarine cable
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Technology & capacity
Southern Cross NEXT uses the latest fiber optic technology and offers a capacity of up to 72 Tbit/s, which represents a significant increase over the previous system and secures the growing bandwidth requirements of Australia and New Zealand in the long term. Essentially, these are the technological features:
- SDM (Space Division Multiplexing): The use of state-of-the-art SDM technology enables significantly higher capacity than older transpacific cable systems.
- Multiple landing points: Connecting Australia, New Zealand and Fiji creates flexibility and redundancy for users in the South Pacific region.
- The latest generation of fibre optic technology for minimal signal loss and optimized latency along the entire transpacific route.
Provider Overview
SAVECALL as access to Southern Cross NEXT
Southern Cross NEXT is the central cable system for the transpacific connection to North America for companies with a presence in Australia and New Zealand. As a modern successor system with significantly increased capacity, Southern Cross NEXT will serve the growing digital requirements of both markets in the long term, playing a key role for cloud connectivity, financial communications and latency-sensitive applications. Access to capacity on Southern Cross NEXT requires direct wholesale partnerships and deep market knowledge of the South Pacific cable landscape. This is exactly where SAVECALL comes in. We have direct market access, analyze your connectivity strategy and source capacity on Southern Cross NEXT specifically for your requirements.
The result for our customers:
- Direct capacity access to Southern Cross NEXT without reseller chains
- Transparent price benchmarking and market data
- Direct connection of Australia and New Zealand to the North American market
- Negotiation of IRU structures and leased capacity models
- Clear SLAs and ongoing capacity management
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Frequently asked questions about the Southern Cross NEXT cable
Southern Cross NEXT connects Sydney in Australia and Auckland in New Zealand directly to Los Angeles in the US, with branches additionally connecting Fiji, Samoa, Tokelau and Kiribati. For Tokelau and Kiribati, this marks each country’s first direct international submarine cable connection. For companies with sites in Australia or New Zealand, NEXT is the most direct route available to the US.
Southern Cross NEXT reaches a design capacity of 72 Tbit/s, spread across four fiber pairs in the main trunk between Sydney and Los Angeles. This significantly increases the total capacity of the Southern Cross ecosystem compared to the original system from 2000.
Southern Cross NEXT entered service in 2022 and was built by Alcatel Submarine Networks. It is operated by Southern Cross Cables Limited, the same company that operates the original Southern Cross Cable Network from 2000. NEXT is the third route in the Southern Cross network.
This mainly depends on the landing points you need and the operator diversity you’re after. Southern Cross NEXT offers the most direct, highest-capacity route, Hawaiki provides a physically independent alternative via Hawaii under a different operator, and the original Southern Cross cable offers a ring topology proven over more than 20 years. Combining two independent systems is often the better choice to ensure genuine redundancy. SAVECALL advises on the right combination on a vendor-neutral basis.
Genuine redundancy only exists when the chosen cables use different landing points, operators and physically separate routes, for example combining Southern Cross NEXT with Hawaiki, which runs on a different physical path via Hawaii. Two cables from the same operator, such as NEXT and the original Southern Cross cable, add capacity but don’t provide fully independent operator risk. SAVECALL plans these concepts independently of any single cable operator, with a focus on actual failover reliability.
Access to capacity on Southern Cross NEXT runs through direct wholesale partnerships with Southern Cross Cables Limited, as well as IRU or leased capacity agreements. SAVECALL negotiates these structures directly with the operator, without detours via reseller chains. Book a free consultation to discuss the right capacity solution for your business.
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