Hawaiian Telcom announces that it has partnered with NEC, and others, to deliver a 20Tb/s 15,000km long cable system. This will link the continental US to Hawaii, and then onwards via Guam to Indonesia and the Philippines.
The cable will provide support for the predicted traffic growth on the trans-Pacific routes between South-East Asia and the US. It provides capacity direct to areas which previously had to transit via hubs in Singapore, Hong Kong or further afield.
Hawaiian will also benefit directly with the added capacity to the US. Being almost exhausted this is leading instead to higher prices for bandwidth to the islands.
“SEA-US enables us to cost-effectively meet our future bandwidth growth requirements and substantially lower our incremental cost of trans-Pacific IP transit capacity by participating as an owner and operator, rather than just a capacity purchaser. Our investment in this cable will provide the dual benefit of making valuable capacity available to our carriers and enterprise customers and supports our internal growth with faster and more technologically advanced connectivity.” – Eric K. Yeaman, President and CEO, Hawaiian Telcom