Indigo West Submarine Cable

Commissioning of the submarine cable system has now began with the indigo cable system on schedule and on track to be ready for service before mid 2019.

Indigo west submarine cable.

Subpartners is committed to a vision that delivers a new paradigm in independent submarine cable development. The indigo cable system is formerly named as apx west. The indigo west and indigo central cables are expected to begin operation in the first quarter of 2019. Indigo is a two fibre pair open cable design that utilises spectrum sharing technology and spans approximately 9000 km connecting singpore to perth and perth to sydney.

With ownership interests in indigo west and central cable assets as well as the oac cable project sub co is demonstrating a commitment to investment in strategic submarine cable assets helping fuel the growth in cloud connectivity around the world. This marks the completion of the marine installation of both the 4600km singapore to perth indigo west submarine cable and 4600km perth to sydney indigo central submarine cable. According to telstra global the indigo consortium announed on wednesday 19 septermber 2018 a significant milestone in the implementation of the indigo subsea cable system with the landing of the indigo west cable at floreat beach in perth this marks the completion of work to lay the first section of cable across approximately 2400km from christmas island to perth. Telegeography s free interactive submarine cable map is based on our authoritative global bandwidth research and depicts active and planned submarine cable systems and their landing stations.

In april 2017 aarnet google indosat ooredoo singtel subpartners and telstra announced they have entered into an agreement with alcatel submarine networks asn to build the indigo cable system that will connect singapore indonesia and australia. The indigo cable system spans 9200km consists of two distinct cable projects indigo. Commissioning of the submarine cable system has now begun with the indigo cable system on schedule and on track to be ready for service before mid 2019 the indigo cable system will bolster connections between australia and the dynamic economies of southeast asia providing lower latency and enhanced reliability. Indigo west delivers cost effective reliable low latency and diverse connectivity between singapore perth.

Through trusted relationships and partnerships subpartners has been the promoter of a consortium to build the indigo west indigo central cable systems connecting singapore to sydney. The consortium behind these two systems includes a research educational network aarnet a content provider google and four carriers ooredoo indosat singtel superloop and telstra. Sub co provides cable system design consultation and can also assist with cable systems development and associated assets. Indigo west indigo central the basics.

Essentially they are two discrete systems as follows.