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SUBCO to use Salalah in Oman as branch landing point for 9,800 km Oman Australia cable
SUBCO announced plans to deliver a new diverse landing for its currently 9,800kmlong Oman Australia Cable by extending a branch to Salalah , Oman . As part of the company ’ s plans , approximately 1,200km of cable is to be laid from OAC ’ s branching unit to the new interconnection hub of Salalah , adding a new diverse path from the existing cable which lands in Muscat , Oman .
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 .
Once built , the new branch will be able to interconnect with several new hyperscale cable systems that lead from Salalah into Europe and Africa – including Meta-backed 2Africa , the Reliance Jio-backed India – Europe Express , and Google , Sparkle and Omantel-backed Blue- Raman . As a result , OAC ’ s planned Salalah gateway would enable one of the lowest latency routes from Australia to Europe .
In addition to express connectivity , this new direct path provides geographic diversity from all systems west of Australia . The Salalah branch is a calculated extension of OAC ’ s deep-sea route which traverses the deep waters of the Indian Ocean and Arabian Sea , avoiding shallow , congested and earthquake-prone passages which pose significant connectivity risks due to unplanned outages .
By extending this strategically mapped route to Salalah , customers will have an alternative secure option via OAC for moving traffic from Australia to the Middle East and Europe .
Bevan Slattery , Founder and CEO of SUBCO said , “ 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 .”
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