Australian submarine cable infrastructure development specialist SUB.CO has announced it has selected Subcom (formerly known as TE Subcom) to build a new international subsea cable system that will directly connect Muscat, Oman to Perth, Australia.
Once completed, the Oman Australia Cable (OAC) will be the only express cable between continental Australia and EMEA, providing the first secure, diverse and low latency route between the two continents.
OAC will form part of a new “Great Southern Route” between continental US, Australia and EMEA, the Brisbane based company said.
The OAC cable system design is a three fibre pair system with option to upgrade to four fibre pairs based upon final demand and will span approximately 9,700 km with additional branching units designed to extend the system into Salalah, Oman and Djibouti in the future.