Largest submarine cable between Australia and the US launches

Southern Cross Cables says its NEXT submarine network is the most capacious yet to connect Australia, New Zealand, Pacific islands, and the US.
While the distance covered is an impressive 15,840km, this is the third transpacific cable laid down by Southern Cross Cables (SX to its friends) which, as its name implies, specialises in this sort of thing. Having two such networks in its portfolio, the company chose NEXT as the name for the latest one. It’s hard to fault that as a descriptive la