Hawaii Inter-Island Cable System
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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
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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 GTE Hawaiian Telephone Company.
Submarine communications cable
A submarine communications cable is a cable laid on the sea bed between land-based stations to carry telecommunication signals across stretches of ocean....
linking together six of the eight main Hawaiian Islands
Hawaiian Islands
The Hawaiian Islands are an archipelago of eight major islands, several atolls, numerous smaller islets, and undersea seamounts in the North Pacific Ocean, extending some 1,500 miles from the island of Hawaii in the south to northernmost Kure Atoll...
with each other.
It has landing points
Cable landing point
A cable landing point is the location where a submarine or other underwater cable makes landfall. The term is most often used for the landfall points of submarine telecommunications cables and submarine power cables. The landing will either be direct or via a branch from a main cable using a...
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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 GTE Hawaiian Telephone Company.