Hawaiki Submarine Cable has signed an agreement with Hawaiian Telcom, securing international capacity on the Southeast Asia – United States (SEA-US) trans-Pacific fiber cable system from Guam to Los Angeles. Combined with the recently-acquired capacity on JGA-South cable from Sydney to Guam, this new deal is designed to enable Hawaiki to expand its subsea network with a new route linking Sydney, Guam, Hawaii and Los Angeles, offering connectivity and route diversity to organisations operating between Australia and the US.

Hawaiki owns and operates the Hawaiki Transpacific Cable. Launched in July 2018, and spanning 15,000 km, the cable links New Zealand, Australia, Hawai‘i and mainland US, with a design capacity of 67 Tbps.

The SEA-US Cable, which went into service in August 2017, runs a similar length to connect Indonesia, the Philippines, Guam, Hawaii and California, and is owned and operated by a consortium of regional operators, including Hawaiian Telcom. JGA-South Cable came into service in March 2020, spanning 7,000 km from Sydney to Guam.

The upgraded configuration announced today complements Hawaiki’s existing express link with a redundant path between Australia and the US, including diverse landings in Oregon and California. This is expected to allow Hawaiki to bolster its already strong portfolio of capacity services to the US, including Hillsboro, Seattle, Hawai‘i, Los Angeles and now Guam, enabling customers to procure multiple segments of trans-Pacific capacity via a single commercial interface.