1. Tonga Cable Submarine Fiber Optic Cable System
by Laupoini Manu

2. Presentation Overview
Tonga Cable Limited background
Market Positioning
Tonga-Fiji Route
Optical Infrastructure
Backup and Redundancy
Southern Cross Cable Network
IP Transit Network
TCL Services Offered

3. Tonga Cable Limited Public Enterprise
Wholesaling ISP services to local ISPs and Telecom operators
Tonga Cable project funded by
World Bank
ADB
TCC
Supplier of the system was Alcatel Lucent

4. Market Positioning

5. Tonga submarine fibre cable
Cable length – 827kms
1 fibre pair
System Capacity – 320Gbps
Initial capacity configured – 20Gbps
System lifetime – 25yrs
Wet plant + Dry plant

6. Submarine fibre optic cable system
TCL
Station
Fintel
Station

7. Cable Laying
PLOW
ROV

8. Cable Laying on Seabed

9. Cable landing in Tonga

10. Tonga Landing Station

11. Landing Station equipment
SLTE
Power Feeding Equipment (PFE)

12. Landing station backup power

13. Backup and Redundancy
Terminal Equipment are duplicated in both stations.
Hot Standby
Cold Standby

14. Tonga Cable – Southern Cross Equipment Interconnected

15. Southern Cross Cable Network

16. Southern Cross Cable Network

17. TCL IP TRANSIT NETWORK

18. Service Technical Description
Service Features
Premium IP Transit
Carrier - Ethernet
Layer 2
Layer 3
IP/MPLS and BGP-4 Routing
IPv4
IPv6

19. Thank you !!!