APNG-2
The APNG-2 submarine communications cable was construct to link Papua New Guinea directly to Australia and indirectly to New Zealand and the rest of the world, and has been in service from late 2006.
The new cable is a collaboration between Telikom PNG, Telstra (in Australia), and Telecom New Zealand.
APNG-2 replaces the APNG-1 cable, a coaxial copper cable of 16 Mbit/s, retired in early 2006.
Construction
APNG-2 will reuse part of the PacRimWest optical fibre cable that formerly linked Australia to Guam and on to Japan.
Recovery and relaying
An 1,800 km section of the PacRimWest cable will be recovered from just south of Guam, with the ship sailing towards the Solomon Islands.
The ship will then recover a loop of the PacRimWest cable off Rockhampton, Queensland, break it, splice to the Sydney end the recovered 1,800 km section, and sail towards PNG, making landfall at Ela Beach near Port Moresby, where a terminal station from Guam will be re-established to link to the Telikom PNG network.
Podcasts:
