en.Wedoany.com Reported - Australian telecommunications operator Vocus has completed the upgrade of its AP2 backbone fiber optic route. This upgrade, combined with the AP1 line enhancement completed in 2025, forms a dual-system optical transmission platform spanning 2,700 kilometers across Australia's east and west coasts, with four times the capacity of the previous generation system.

Customers can now access native 400 Gbps services via this route, while the existing 100G option remains available. The platform is designed with the capability to support higher-rate services as optical transmission technology evolves.

With the widespread deployment of artificial intelligence and cloud computing workloads across Australia, traffic between data centers, cloud platforms, and international submarine cable systems connecting Australia to Asia and the United States continues to grow, making this east-west transmission corridor increasingly important. Hyperscale cloud providers are increasingly routing traffic between the two coasts via this terrestrial path, which offers lower and more stable latency compared to submarine cable solutions.

Matt Walsh, Chief Customer Officer at Vocus, stated that this upgrade is part of the company's infrastructure strategy. He noted that Australia's national challenge is no longer internet access, but the capacity of the long-haul fiber backbone that forms the backbone of the entire system. Upgrading the AP1 and AP2 lines now is to ensure that as AI applications accelerate deployment, the rapidly growing data demand between eastern and western Australia can be met without capacity bottlenecks.

The AP2 upgrade project complements Vocus's investments in the Australia-Singapore Cable and the upcoming Pacific Connect and Australia Connect projects in collaboration with Google, collectively strengthening the national backbone network that supports enterprise, government, and wholesale telecommunications connectivity.

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