SubCo’s SMAP Cable Lands in Sydney, Australia
SubCo’s SMAP Cable Lands in Sydney, Australia
By Dan Swinhoe, Data Center Dynamics
January 30, 2026
SubCo has landed the SMAP subsea cable in Sydney, Australia.
The company this week announced the cable has made landfall at Maroubra, a beachside suburb on the east side of Sydney. It is the final landing for the system.
The domestic cable was laid by the Ile d’Yeu cable ship from ASN.
The 5,000km (3,106 miles) SMAP cable was first announced by SubCo in 2023 and is set to be operational in Q1 2026, connecting Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, and Perth.
New landing stations have been developed in Adelaide and Torquay, a town southwest of Melbourne. It is also present in Equinix’s SY5 facility in Sydney.
The system landed in Perth in June 2025. The cable landed in Torquay in November.
The cable was initially set to connect Tasmania, but the company announced it would drop the Hobart/Tasmania extension in August last year.
Originally designed as a 12-fiber pair system, SMAP was upgraded to a planned 16-fiber pair system in May last year.
SubCo, part of Bevan Slattery’s Soda Group, also owns the Oman Australia Cable and has capacity on the Indigo subsea cables.
The company is also planning a new system to connect Australia to the US. APX East, a 16-fiber-pair system, is set to run from the north of Sydney to San Diego, California. The cable’s Australian landing station will be at NextDC’s S1/S2 site in Sydney.
Sydney is the landing point for more than a dozen subsea cables, several of them travelling across the Pacific to the US.
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