Hawaiki Nui cable will link three continents by 2025

Hawaiki Nui cable will link three continents by 2025
Hawaiki founder Remi Galasso. (Image: Supplied)
Henry Burrell
Submarine cable company Hawaiki has announced plans for a new 22,000km cable system called Hawaiki Nui linking South-East Asia, Australasia, and North America. Hawaiki said the system will be the first and largest spatial division multiplexing (SDM) cable to link the three regions.SDM technology can radically increase the capacity of optical data transmission, an increasing need as applications such as video calling and video streaming put further strain on broadband network capacity. The Hawaiki Nui, which translates as ‘The Gr...

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