Hawaii Inter-Island Cable System

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]

Hawaii Inter-Island Cable System, HICS
Owners:
Hawaiian Telcom
Landing points
  • Lihue Terminal, Wailua Point, Kauai
  • Ko Olina Terminal, Kahe Point, Oahu
  • Koko Head Terminal, Sandy Beach, Oahu
  • Kihei Terminal, Mokapu, Maui
  • Kawaihae Terminal, Spencer Beach, Island of Hawaii
Total length480 km
Design capacity2.5 Gbit/s
Date of first useJuly 1994

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.

References
  1. "LETTER: Hawai'i's Submarine Fiber-Optic Cables Reaching End of Life Span".
  2. "HICS (Hawaii Inter-Island Cable System)".


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