JASURAUS
| Cable type | Fibre-optic |
|---|---|
| Fate | Decommissioned |
| Construction beginning | 1995 |
| Construction finished | 1997 |
| First traffic | 1997 |
| Design capacity | 5.332 Gbit/s |
| Built by | Port Hedland, Western Australia |
| Area served | Asia-Pacific |
| Owner(s) | Telstra (68.75%) Optus (31.25%) |
JASURAUS was a 5.332 Gbit/s, 2,800 km
and which was decommissioned in 2012.The cable owners of the JASURAUS system that became part of the APCN were Optus, Telstra and Indosat. They joined the APCN consortium by transferring 90% of the JASURAUS capacity for 10% on the APCN.
JASURAUS was conceived in 1995 as an additional link from Australia to provide telephony services connected to the world, with a design life of 25 years and at a cost of A$160 million. The name was derived from a concatenation of the originally planned sites of 'Jakarta' - 'Surabaya' - 'Australia'. However, the Surabaya landing was abandoned before project commencement, though the name remained.
The landing point in Indonesia was at Ancol Cable Station.
The final landing point chosen at the Australian end was in Port Hedland, a number of options were looked into for the cable station including a secure concrete duct to the existing South Hedland exchange 11 km inland utilising the vacant 2nd floor which had previously been used for the Telstra Manual Assistance Centre.
The PFE, SLTE and MUX equipment was finally commissioned in a new purpose-built building located adjacent to the Cooke Point exchange. It featured many redundant systems, including a new physically diverse fibre to connect to the existing inland fibre route to Perth.
At the time of being ready for service in 1997, the main cables linking Australia to the world were Tasman2 (
JASURAUS was overtaken in 2000 by the 40 Gbit/s
While JASURAUS was capable of supporting an upgrade to 20 Gbit/s, such agreements would have required consensus from the JASURAUS operators and APCN's owners. Proposed upgrades were further hampered due to the high cost charged by
In the absence of upgrades beyond its initial bandwidth, JASURAUS saw minimal further use. Its remaining years were spent largely idle, with the cable retained as a backup link out of Australia and as an additional source of connectivity for AARNet.[2][3]
According to industry sources,[4][5] JASURAUS was decommissioned in 2012.[6]
See also
- Other Australian international submarine cables (and year of first service):
- PacRimWest (1995)
- SEA-ME-WE 3 (2000, Australian portion in service earlier)
- Southern Cross Cable (2000)
- Australia–Japan Cable (2001)
- Telstra Endeavour (2008)
- Pipe Pacific Cable (2009)
References
- ^ "Jasuraus Underwater Cable Starts Up". Telecompaper. 19 August 1997. Retrieved 8 January 2015.
- ^ "AARNet - Meeting a New Era of Change" (PDF). Don Robertson, QUESTnet. 10 July 2008. Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 March 2015. Retrieved 8 January 2015.
- ^ "Request for Information from the Candidate SKA Sites" (PDF). Australia-New Zealand SKA Coordination Committee. 15 September 2011. Retrieved 8 January 2015.
- ^ "[AusNOG] Re: JASURAUS". Retrieved 8 January 2015.
- ^ "[AusNOG] Re: JASURAUS". Retrieved 8 January 2015.
- ^ "Submarine Capacity Perspectives" (PDF). Ross Pfeffer, Southern Cross Cable. 2 April 2013. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 January 2014. Retrieved 8 January 2015.
External links
- Alcatel Lucent Information Page
- Big Pipes: Connecting Western Australia to the Global Knowledge Economy
- Cable Route and Additional Details
