Samoa Submarine Cable Company Limited (SSCC) and Alcatel Submarine Networks (ASN) have begun marine route survey for the 1,470 km TUISamoa Cable.
The survey is due to end in be completed early next month.
Strengthening Samoa’s domestic and international connectivity, Tui-Samoa Cable will have landing points in Apia and Tuasivi (Samoa) and Suva (Fiji).
It will deliver a capacity of at least 8 Terabits-per-second (Tbit/s) using 100 Gbit/s transmission technology.
The system will also have extensions to the islands of Vanua Levu – Savusavu (Fiji) and Wallis & Futuna.
Pepe Fia’ailetoa Christian Fruean, Chairperson of SSCC said: “We are pleased to announce this important milestone as part of the overall implementation.
“The marine survey represent excellent progress as we maintain the schedule for the TUI-Samoa system to improve the accessibility of high quality connectivity that will stimulate Samoa’s ICT growth.”
