The APX West and Central cable system has a new name — INDIGO — a number of new backers, with a consortium comprising AARNet, Google, Indosat Ooredoo, Optus parent company Singtel, SubPartners, and Telstra announcing today that they had struck a deal with Alcatel Submarine Networks (ASN) to build the subsea cable.
Optus’ parent company Singtel and Telstra have signed a memorandum of understanding with SubPartners for the construction of the long-mooted APX-West submarine cable.
NextDC's Perth data centre, P1, will be the landing station for the APX-West and APX-Central cables under a plan unveiled today by SubPartners.
SubPartners has announced a submarine cable connecting Perth to Sydney.
SubPartners, the company headed by Bevan Slattery, founder of PIPE Networks and NextDC, has signed a system supply contract with New Jersey-based TE SubCom for the APX-West undersea cable.