New cable incoming! Hawaiki Nui set to connect Sydney, Singapore, and LA by 2025

Submarine cable company Hawaiki is to build a trans-Pacific cable system, dubbed Hawaiki Nui, that links up Southeast Asia, Australasia and North America. It's slated for completion in 2025. The cabler claims the undersea system, which "builds on its existing Hawaiki asset", will be "the first and largest spatial division …

[Denarius]

wonderful

all the spam and phishing will be delivered so much faster

[Yes Me]

Re: wonderful

Actually the main point is more redundancy. Cable breaks are a real thing and disastrous for isolated land masses.

[thejoelr]

Jupiter

Waiting for Jupiter to light up. It will link LA/Oregen to Japan/Philippines with the most direct link from the west coast to SEA. Everything else makes a stop in HK etc, and politics are pushing cables away from HK. ph then has local cable networks to the rest of SEA. This was due to come online at the end of 2020 and has fb and google investment. It's much less bandwidth, but will be great for everyone here. And with Alibaba planning a ph datacenter and the local carrier for Jupiter opening a truly neutral datacenter, hopefully we'll get local fb and google servers. So much stuff for the Philippines is actually 30ms away in Singapore. Diverse routes that skip HK are a national interest to the US now. The pandemic and other pressures have dramatically improved the quality of Philippine internet including massive investments in 5G. What was effectively a telco duopoly has finally given way to competition.

[Mike 16]

Customers

Maybe Epiphyte Corp? Their business plan is "on the web", so you could read it. But they discourage that...

[Anonymous Coward]

What goes around, comes around

Seems like a nice touch for a New Zealand South Island cable landing, since it’s been over a 100 years since an international cable was last connected directly.

It will be interesting if the Invercargil data centre gold rush takes place, with all that potential for free air cooling and significant source of power from Manapouri.