New Zealand-based Hawaiki Cable Ltd, which recently revealed plans to construct a submarine cable link between from Auckland and Sydney and Hawaii via numerous Pacific Islands, has confirmed that a number of Polynesian island nations have expressed an interest in connecting to the infrastructure via one of a number of branches. Pacific Scoop, citing the Cook Islands News, says that the mooted cable project has a design capacity of 8Tbps and is expected to connect to the likes of Norfolk Island, New Caledonia, Vanuatu, Fiji, Wallis and Futuna, Samoa and American Samoa via optical add-drop multiplexer (OADM) devices. *Although the Hawaiki Cable project has been in the works for around three years, its backers only decided to go public last month after the well-publicised failure of the rival Pacific Fibre project, which was mothballed on 1 August this year after failing to secure sufficient capital to deploy a cable link between Auckland, Sydney and Los Angeles.
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OVETEL Polynesian leaders confirm interest in new NZ-Hawaii submarine cable
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