{"id":30284,"date":"2023-09-29T12:45:08","date_gmt":"2023-09-29T11:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/?p=30284"},"modified":"2023-10-18T13:21:50","modified_gmt":"2023-10-18T12:21:50","slug":"equinix-serves-as-gateway-for-southern-cross-next-subsea-cable-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/2023\/09\/29\/equinix-serves-as-gateway-for-southern-cross-next-subsea-cable-system\/","title":{"rendered":"Equinix serves as gateway for Southern Cross NEXT subsea cable system"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

SX NEXT cable offers lowest latency US link for Australia and New Zealand.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Equinix has announced an expanded relationship with Southern Cross Cables Limited (Southern Cross) to provide a key US-based interconnectivity access point for the Southern Cross NEXT (SX NEXT) submarine cable system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SX NEXT will leverage Equinix\u2019s next-generation cable landing station (CLS) architecture, enabling rapid provisioning and cost savings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The SX NEXT cable offers the lowest latency path from Australia and New Zealand to Los Angeles – connecting into Equinix\u2019s LA4 Los Angeles International Business Exchange (IBX) data center.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SX NEXT is pitched as enhancing network performance across industries in the region and boosting the aggregate capacity of Southern Cross\u2019 existing Trans-Pacific ecosystem by approximately 500%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Southern Cross also utilizes Platform Equinix to provide critical on-ramps to the Southern Cross network ecosystem at SY1 and SY5 Sydney data centers, as well as SV1and SV8 in Silicon Valley and LA1 in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With the release of 400GbE (Layer 1 and 2) capability on the Southern Cross network earlier this year, customers can now take advantage of the lowest latency, secure 400G data center inter-connections between key Equinix facilities in Sydney, Australia and the US West Coast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The need for additional capacity between Australia and the US is Driven by increased demand for cloud services, content and digital media and e-commerce capabilities – a sign of the growing maturity of the Australian digital economy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trans-Pacific demand has grown at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 41% over the past five years -significantly more than the 26% CAGR of Internet backbone providers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2021, the Australian Government announced the investment of an additional A$1.2 billion to grow Australia\u2019s digital economy by 2030 – including infrastructure, skills, cybersecurity, regulations and digital trade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Craige Sloots, Director, Marketing and Strategy, Southern Cross, said: \u201cTrans-Pacific subsea connectivity will continue to be a key enabler in the region for many years to come and we\u2019re excited about this next phase of interconnection through our work with Equinix.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jim Poole, Vice President, Business Development, Equinix said: \u201cBy supplementing existing trans-Pacific routes, the Southern Cross NEXT cable provides seamless and accelerated interconnection across Platform Equinix, with an opportunity to help boost the digital economy in those regions.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tim Stronge, VP of Research, TeleGeography, said:\u201cBandwidth demand continues to rise at a rapid pace on the Trans-Pacific route. As technology advances and new players enter the field, the trans-Pacific subsea cable landscape continues to evolve, promising even greater connectivity and opportunities for innovation.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SX NEXT cable offers lowest latency US link for Australia and New Zealand. Equinix has announced an expanded relationship with Southern Cross Cables Limited (Southern Cross) to provide a key US-based interconnectivity access point for the Southern Cross NEXT (SX NEXT) submarine cable system. SX NEXT will leverage Equinix\u2019s next-generation cable landing station (CLS) architecture, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":30285,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,51,55,44,54],"tags":[76,106,77,4988,4986,4987],"class_list":["post-30284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cabling","category-intelligent-technology-newsletter","category-oceania","category-top-stories","category-used","tag-australia","tag-equinix","tag-new-zealand","tag-next-generation-cable-landing-station","tag-southern-cross-next","tag-subsea-cable-system"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30284"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30833,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30284\/revisions\/30833"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}