Alcatel connects New Caledonia

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Alcatel has signed a turnkey contract valued at €42m with the Post & Telecommunications Office (OPT) of New Caledonia to roll out a submarine cable network connecting New Caledonia and Australia.

Alcatel has signed a turnkey contract valued at €42m with the Post & Telecommunications Office (OPT) of New Caledonia to roll out a submarine cable network connecting New Caledonia and Australia. Based on Alcatel's optical networking solutions, the new deployment, dubbed Gondwana-1, will significantly increase the capacity of OPT's network.

 

The project is scheduled for completion in the first quarter of 2008 and will offer high-speed connectivity to the Territory. This new submarine network will link Nouméa, in New Caledonia, to Sydney, in Australia where it will interconnect with the international routes towards Europe and the US. An unrepeatered link will also connect Poindimié, on the New Caledonian East coast, to the Loyalty Islands.

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