Hawaiki submarine cable becomes operational

Hawaiki's $ 300 million transpacific submarine cable system has been commissioned, with commercial operations launched on Friday for the submarine cable linking Australia, New Zealand and the United States . The link between the United States, Australia and New Zealand will greatly enhance our connectivity with the rest of the world and improve the daily lives of our communities, "said Remi Galasso, Chief Executive Officer,

. Vodafone New Zealand, Amazon Web Services (AWS), the American Samoa Telecommunications Authority (ASTCA) and Research, and New Zealand Advanced Education Network (REANNZ).

"Vodafone can now offer our customers a triversity through the Russell Stanners, CEO of Vodafone NZ, said:" In addition to higher levels of resilience, the Hawaiki cable This position boosts competition in the New Zealand market. This means that we now have more choice and flexibility to design connectivity solutions to meet the diverse needs of New Zealand consumers and businesses. "

Lolo M Moliga The submarine cable of Hawaiki is a "game changer" for the Pacific Islands, pointing to online health and e-learning

"We are already receiving and considering proposals from local and foreign companies for Establishment of dependent commercial activities. "We are also in an ideal position to offer advanced connectivity, including a direct link to the west coast of the United States, to our database.

Hawaiki Submarine Cable LP announced in April that it had completed its final landing in American Samoa, with US territory to have access to 200Gb o Hawaiki had announced that it had reached the mid-point of its deployment in the United States. Pacific Ocean in January, the company having obtained a license from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) of the United States in December.

The segment between Oregon and Hawaii had been completed during the last quarter of 2017. Hawaiki then began to lay the international portion of its submarine cable in November

"The system also includes branching units for the islands. "We have included in the system a branching unit for Fiji, another for Tonga, and another for the French, Galasso told the media at the time.

The cable has three pairs of fibers: two between Sydney and the United States and one from New Zealand in the United States.

Two maintenance vessels, one based in Noumea and the other in Vancouver, are set to repair t This system will be provided over the next 25 years, with the service life of the cable system guaranteed by TE SubCom.

Construction of the Hawaiki submarine cable began in April 2016, three years after its announcement. It has a rated capacity of 43.8Tbps and utilizes TE SubCom's underwater line terminator C100U +.

The cable is privately owned, having been co-developed by Sir Eion Edgar, a New Zealand businessman whose important "investment for cable in July 2015, and Galasso." Malcolm Dick, co-founder of the third largest Slovakian telecommunications company in New Zealand

World submarine cables

• Google's Dunant transatlantic submarine cable between Virginia Beach in the United States and the French Atlantic coast
• ] The underwater cable of the Chennai-Andaman and Nicobar islands of the Indian government, built by NEC
• The Australian government's Coral Sea submarine cable, built by Vocus to connect Australia, Papua New Guinea Guinea and the Solomon Islands
• Vocuses Australia-Singapore Cable (ASC)
• Vocuses North West Cable System (NWCS) between Darwin and Port Hedland
• The NEXT Underwater Cable System from Southern Cross Cable s between Australia, New Zealand and the United States under construction by SubPartners
• The Trident submarine cable system connecting Perth to Singapore via Indonesia
• The cable under -marine Jupiter The United States, Japan and the Philippines are built by a consortium including Facebook, Amazon, SoftBank, NTT Com, PLDT and PCCW
• The Hawaiki submarine cable between Australia, Nova Scotia Zealand and the United States
• Superloop's Hong Kong
• Telstra Hong Kong Americas (HKA) cable between Hong Kong and the United States
• Telstra's Pacific Light Cable Network (PLCN) between Hong Kong and the United States
• Google-Japan-Guam-Australia (JGA) [19659020] The submarine cable of the Asia-Pacific Gateway (APG) connecting China, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea South, Malaysia, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam and Singapore, owned by a consortium including China Telecom, China Unicom, China Mobil e, NTT Communications, KT Corporation, LG Uplus, StarHub, Telecom Chunghwa, CAT, Global Transit Communications, Viettel, and VNPT, and being built by NEC
• The Southeast Asia Japan Cable 2 (SJC2), which will have 11 Landing stat In China, Singapore, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, Hong Kong, China, South Korea, Taiwan and Japan were built by NEC and funded by a consortium including China Mobile International, Chung Wei, Facebook, KDDI, Singleton, SK Broadband and VNPT
• The Bay to Bay Express (BtoBE) system linking Singapore and Hong Kong to the United States, funded by a consortium including Facebook, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and China Mobile International, and under construction by NEC