New Submarine Fiber-Optic Cable to Deliver 100 Tbps of Broadband Capacity to Hawaii
2022-05-16
According to Hawaiian Telecom, the new submarine optical cable has the capacity to simultaneously transmit 4 million high-definition movies.
“The trans-Pacific cable system has provided telecommunications services to Hawaii for more than 50 years,” said Daniel Masutomi, Director of Submarine Engineering and Network Optimization at Hawaiian Telecom. “However, most of these cables have now been decommissioned, and the few remaining submarine cables are either nearing the end of their service life or have already exceeded their maximum capacity.”
A 9,000-mile undersea fiber-optic cable system connecting Indonesia, the Philippines, Guam, Hawaii, and California will help meet the exponential growth in demand for internet services. Seven companies have formed the Southeast Asia–United States (SEA-US) Alliance to build the cable.
Hawaiian Telecom stated that the submarine optical cable is expected to remain in commercial operation for at least 25 years. It is designed to withstand strong ocean currents, severe storms, and harsh saline-alkali conditions.
The Southeast Asia–United States submarine optical cable will utilize 100G The BPS technology delivers a capacity of 20 Tbps. According to Hawaiian Telecom, with 20 Tbps of capacity, internet users could download roughly 4,000 DVDs in one second—or all the printed books in the Library of Congress in just half a second.
“We are proud to participate in the most technologically advanced trans-Pacific cable system, which will meet the growing broadband demand between Asia and the United States,” said Scott Barber, President and CEO of Hawaiian Telecom. “This landmark cable system ensures that Hawaiian Telecom can cost-effectively support the bandwidth needs driven by cloud computing, streaming video, the Internet of Things, and the innovation and economic growth it fosters among Hawaii’s residents and businesses.”
This submarine fiber-optic cable project is owned and operated by Hawaiian Telecom, Global Telecommunications Manila, Tamuning, GTA in Guam, GTI in Los Angeles, RTI in San Francisco, Indonesia’s Telin, and Telkom USA in Los Angeles.
Hawaiian Telecom stated that the company has decided to invest in a new cable system to ensure uninterrupted internet access in Hawaii, as the existing submarine cables are nearing the end of their operational life. The company noted that a 2013 study by the University of Hawaii and Johns Hopkins University projected that some of the islands’ current submarine cables would reach the end of their service life by the mid-2020s.
Hawaiian Telecom has invested US$25 million in this submarine fiber-optic cable project.
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