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7 QUESTIONS WITH LAURIE MILLER Talking Technology Trends With Southern Cross’s President and Chief Executive Officer
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WHAT IS SOUTHERN CROSS’S MISSION?
Southern Cross’s mission is to “Enable connectivity and support social development across the region through high quality products and solutions that people can depend on”. Incumbent in that is the typical things that you would hope a modern socially aware organization tries to achieve. We want to be a pro-active, supportive and fundamentally awesome employer. We have a very small team as companies go, and as such our people and relationships are critical, and so our support and growth of those people and relationships is our number one priority. We aim to be aware and responsible with regards to community and environment, and our affects upon it, with a view of making long lasting positive contributions. From a customer and industry viewpoint we aim to be recognized as the submarine cable operator of choice in the Trans-Pacific region with performance and innovation that others strive to emulate, committed to the development and support of broadband in the regions we operate in.
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In practice this means that Southern Cross strives to have a positive impact on customers, our team, society and to be great financial stewards for our shareholders.
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HOW DOES SOUTHERN CROSS PARTICIPATE IN THE SUBMARINE CABLE MARKET?
Southern Cross as a company has been operating for over 20 years, and with our new Southern Cross NEXT system (NEXT) will operate a meshed network ‘eco-system’ comprising three cables connecting Australia, New Zealand, Hawaii the United States West Coast and also Fiji, Tokelau and Kiribati. In total, the Southern Cross eco-system is almost 45,000km in length and has an aggregate design capacity of circa 100 Tbps. Customers are currently able to access the Southern Cross eco-system from Points of Presence in Sydney, Los Angeles, San Jose, Palo Alto, Seattle and sites in New Zealand and the Pacific Islands. Besides operating cable systems, we also positively engage and support the submarine cable industry and
