wiredInUSA February 2017

The 30,500km Southern Cross Cable Network (SCCN) is using Ciena’s Blue Planet V-WAN to support its Gigaflex Elastic bandwidth-on- demand capability. Ciena’s Blue Planet V-WAN connects SCCN data centers on the US west coast (Seattle, Portland, San Joseand Los Angeles) to those in Sydney (Australia), Auckland (New Zealand), Fiji and Hawaii, providing a complete end-to- end connectivity solution. The trans-Pacific SCCN system comprises two submarine cables (commissioned in November 2000 and January 2001), with current potential capacity of 20Tbps. SCCN is owned by Spark New Zealand, SingTel Optus, and Verizon Business. A further project, the Southern Cross Next, is under development to link Auckland to Los Angeles, adding a third route to the Southern Cross network.

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wiredInUSA - February 2017

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