Australia’s first submarine ‘hypercable’ ready for deployment

Written By John Manock

Capacity Media | February 24, 2025

  • Australia’s first submarine “hypercable,” SMAP, is now fully manufactured and ready for ship loading at the ASN factory in Calais, France

  • The 5,000-kilometre, 400 Terabit-per-second (Tbps) cable, developed by SUBCO, will connect Sydney, Melbourne (via Torquay), Adelaide, and Perth.

  • SMAP is designed to be Australia’s most secure and resilient transcontinental subsea cable system. 

  • It will feature full-armour protection to reduce the risk of outages, provide unprecedented 400Tbps capacity using space-division multiplexing (SDM) technology, and incorporate advanced sensing fibres to extend FiberSense capabilities up to 150 kilometres.

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