“There’s only a couple of routes that it typically follows to do that,which is usually rail and beside road.

“This is diverse from that,and also subsea systems in deep water …[have] a higher reliability factor.

“Threat diversity as well … bushfires or landslides or flooding or whatever doesn’t affect the subsea system.”

For the average internet user,it might mean more reliable connections,but there are also potential international diplomacy benefits.

“It’s about positioning Australia as the new hub for the Indo-Pacific region,” Slattery said.

“A new resiliency for the entire internet to avoid these kinds of areas that are geopolitically unstable,or just high rates of incidents or faults.”

Online vessel tracking platforms list the Ile d’Yeu as departing from Melbourne on January 7,after setting off from Perth in July.

It was recently converted to lay undersea cables in partnership with Louis Dreyfus Armateurs,which claimed the vessel has the world’s biggest cable loading capacity. It can load more than 8500 tonnes of cable,enough to lay 15,000 kilometres,on a single voyage.

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