Hawaii Inter-Island Cable System
Submarine communications cable system
| Hawaii Inter-Island Cable System, HICS | |
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| Owners: Hawaiian Telcom | |
Landing points
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| Total length | 480 km |
| Design capacity | 2.5 Gbit/s |
| Date of first use | July 1994 |
HICS or Hawaii Inter-Island Cable System is a fiber optic submarine telecommunications cable system linking together six of the eight main Hawaiian Islands with each other.[1]
It has landing points[2] in:
- Lihue Terminal, Wailua Point, Kauai, Hawaii, U.S.A.
- Ko Olina Terminal, Kahe Point, Oahu, Hawaii, U.S.A.
- Koko Head Terminal, Sandy Beach, Oahu, Hawaii, U.S.A.
- Kihei Terminal, Mokapu, Maui, Hawaii, U.S.A.
- Kawaihae Terminal, Spencer Beach, Island of Hawaii, U.S.A.
It has a transmission capacity of 2.5 Gbit/s, and a total cable length of 298 miles (480 km). It started operation on July 20, 1994, and is operated and maintained by Hawaiian Telcom.
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Submarine communications cables in the Pacific Ocean
- APCN
- APCN 2
- APNG
- APNG-2
- ASEAN
- Alaska United
- Asia Pacific Gateway
- Asia-America Gateway
- Australia–Japan Cable
- Bay of Bengal Gateway
- CUCN
- Commonwealth Pacific Cable System
- EAC-C2C
- FASTER
- Fibre-optic Link Around the Globe
- G-P
- Gondwana-1
- HANTRU-1
- HAW-1
- Hawaii Inter-Island Cable System
- Honotua
- Interchange Cable Network
- Japan-US
- Manatua One
- Matrix Cable System
- NPC
- PAN AM
- PC-1
- PacRimWest
- Pacific Caribbean Cable System
- Pipe Pacific Cable
- RJK
- RNAL
- SAm-1
- SEA-ME-WE 3
- SEA-ME-WE 4
- SEACOM
- SPIN
- Southern Cross Cable
- T-V-H
- TIS
- TPC-5CN
- TPE
- TSE-1
- Tasman Global Access
- Telstra Endeavour
- Tonga Cable System
- Transpac
- Unity
- VSNL Transpacific
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