The full-text may be used and/or reproduced, and given to third parties in any format or medium, without prior permission or charge, for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-prot purposes provided that:• a full bibliographic reference is made to the original source • a link is made to the metadata record in DRO • the full-text is not changed in any way The full-text must not be sold in any format or medium without the formal permission of the copyright holders.Please consult the full DRO policy for further details. We define an interconnection network AQ n,k which we call the augmented kary n-cube by extending a k-ary n-cube in a manner analogous to the existing extension of an n-dimensional hypercube to an n-dimensional augmented cube. We prove that the augmented k-ary n-cube AQ n,k has a number of attractive properties (in the context of parallel computing). For example, we show that the augmented k-ary n-cube AQ n,k : is a Cayley graph, and so is vertex-symmetric, but not edge-symmetric unless n = 2; has connectivity 4n−2 and wide-diameter at most max{(n−1)k−(n−2), k+7}; has diameter ⌊ k 3⌉, when n = 2; and has diameter at most k 4 (n + 1), for n ≥ 3 and k even, and at most k 4 (n + 1) + n 4 , for n ≥ 3 and k odd.