Faster, more affordable and reliable communications infrastructure is now available to Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands, with construction of the CS2 and SIDN projects now complete.

Another important milestone for the Coral Sea Cable has been met, with the newly formed Coral Sea Cable Company meeting for the first time.

The Solomon Islands Domestic Network lay is now complete, with the landing of the cable at Noro on 31 October 2019, followed by the final splice on 1 November 2019.

The Coral Sea Cable System between Australia, Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands has been completed with the final splice taking place on Friday, 27 September 2019.

An important milestone in the Coral Sea Cable System has been reached – the landing of the cable in Sydney.

The fibre optic submarine cable linking Australia to Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands is scheduled to land in Sydney this Wednesday.

The PNG Cable Landing Station (CLS) arrived on site in Port Moresby to house critical equipment for the Coral Sea Cable System.

The three segments of cable that make up the Coral Sea Cable System were connected on Tuesday 23 July 2019 by engineers aboard the Ile de Brehat.

Exciting progress has been made as the Coral Sea Cable System touched down in Port Moresby on 29 June and Honiara on 14 July.

All of the cable segments of the CS² and SIDN cables have been loaded onto the marine cable lay vessel, and departed from Calais, France in April 2019.

Final testing and loading of the Coral Sea Cable and Solomon Islands Domestic Network Cable has been happening over the month of March.

The CS² and SIDN will deliver faster, cheaper and more reliable internet to Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands, resulting in significant economic and development opportunities.

In the second of a series of planned visits, Mat Shields visited ASN’s manufacturing plants in Greenwich, England.

Mat Shields, Vocus Communications Technical Lead for the CS² project, visited ASN’s manufacturing plants to undertake a series of quality assurance and manufacturing progress assessments.

Rapid progress is being made on the CS² and SIDN over the past month, with marine survey vessels having docked in Sydney, Honiara and Port Moresby.

Australia, PNG and Solomon Islands sign a Memorandum of Understanding relating to funding for the Coral Sea Cable System (CS²) and domestic network in Solomon Islands.

Prime Minister of Solomon Islands The Honourable Rick Houenipwela MP witnessed the signing of the agreement between Australia and Solomon Islands for the delivery of the CS² and SIDN networks.

Submarine line terminating equipment is the most important technology in an international cable network like the CS², and is also the part of cable technology that sees the most change over time.