Approximately 1,200 km of cable will be installed from the Oman Australia Cable’s (OAC) branching unit to the new interconnection hub of Salalah, adding a new path from the existing cable which lands in Muscat, Oman.
The planned cable will interconnect with hyperscale cable systems that lead from Salalah into Europe and Africa—including Meta-backed 2Africa, the Reliance Jio-backed India-Europe Express (IEX), and Google, Sparkle and Omantel-backed Blue-Raman.
Subco claims OAC’s planned Salalah gateway would enable one of the lowest latency routes from Australia to Europe.
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It also claims the Salalah extension provides geographic diversity from west of Australia.
The Salalah extension traverses the Indian Ocean and Arabian Sea, avoiding shallow congested and earthquake-prone passages.
By extending this strategically mapped route to Salalah, Subco says its customers will have an alternative secure option via OAC for moving traffic from Australia to the Middle East and Europe.
“With a number of other major subsea cable systems interconnecting, or planning to interconnect, at Salalah, we hope to provide our customers with an express gateway for onward capacity from Australia to EMEA, and enable enhanced network performance, connectivity and resiliency for all of Australia,” said Subco founder and CEO Bevan Slattery.
Subco is currently in the project planning phase, with the branch landing anticipated to be completed, and the new path operational, by the end of 2024.
This first appeared in the subscription newsletter CommsWire on 7 March 2023.
