CIENA NETWORKS THE OCEAN FLOOR
Ciena (NYSE: CIEN) has provided 400 Gbps connectivity to Southern Cross Cables Ltd's recently acquired 9,843 miles of undersea cable. has been released for production, highlighting areas where cloud hyperscalers are in high demand. Southern Cross is an independent company that provides capacity, mostly undersea, to network operators and their ISPs in Australia, New Zealand and the Asia-Pacific region. Shareholders include New Zealand's Spark provider, Australia's Singtel Optus, Verizon (NYSE: VZ) and Telstra. One of Southern Cross's key projects was his just-announced NEXT cable. It operates between Sydney, Auckland and Los Angeles, with fiber optic connections to the islands of Tokelau, Kiribati and Fiji. NEXT took two years to complete and is one of three cable systems that will form the Southern Cross ecosystem in the Asia-Pacific region. Ciena, a leading optical networking company, provided the underwater switching technology that forms the basis of NE...
