Hawaii Inter-Island Cable System

Hawaii Inter-Island Cable System, HICS
Owners:
Hawaiian Telcom

Landing points

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.

It has landing points in:

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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