Nava Networks has appointed Fujitsu Limited to build the cable for its broadband fibre optic network, Nava-1 between Singapore, Jakarta and Sydney.
The Nava-1 network will provide a high capacity strategic data connection between Singapore, Indonesia and Australia. It will also connect to international cables, effectively closing the southern hemisphere loop for international systems between Europe, North America and Asia. The cable link is due to be completed in July 2002.
Nava-1 plan to add several new lanes to theAustralian Information highway, effectively tripling the available international capacity in 2002 and providing the first multi-terabit high bandwidth cable directly linking the major Australian cities of Perth and Melbourne.
Fujitsu would provide state-of-the-art high bandwidth fibre optic technology for the undersea cable.
The 9,000 km long cable network will use Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing (DWDM) repeatered 10 Gigabits technology.
The undersea cable potion of the system will have a minimum of 4 fibre pairs, each equipped with a minimum of 64 channels(waves) of STM-64 (10+Gb/s).
The minimum total transmission capacity for the cable will be 2.56 Terabits/second (2,560 Gb/s, equivalent to 40 million simultaneous both-ways telephone voice circuits, or transmission of over 64 full length feature films of DVD quality video per second).
