South Pacific region specificity
L.os Angeles Hawaii q Huge distances Hawaii q Limited popula ons Guam Kiribati Nauru q Isola on issues Tuvalu Tokelau Papua New Guinea Solomon Wallis Samo a American Samoa q Need for cheaper Vanuatu French Polynesia and faster bandwidth New CaledoniaFiji Niue Tong Cook Island a q Satellite bandwidth Norfolk Sydney price over 1500 USD / Mbps Auckland
2 Existing systems in South Pacific region
q Southern Cross : Sydney - Auckland - Hawaii - US west coast - Suva - Sydney ü Capacity: 6 Tb/s ü End of life: 2020 q Endeavour (Telstra) : Sydney - Hawaii HawaiiHawaii ü Capacity: 1,2 Tb/s
ü End of life: 2034 Guam q Gondwana : Nouméa - Sydney ü Capacity: 640 Gb/s Madang Honiara Apia ü End of life: 2033 Wallis Port Vila Pago Pago Tahiti Suva q Honotua : Tahi - Hawaii Noumea Nuku’alofa ü Capacity: 640 Gb/s Norfolk Is. ü End of life: 2035 Sydney Auckland q ASH : Pago-Pago - Hawaii ü Capacity: 1 Gb/s ü End of life: 2014 / 2015 ? (no more spare parts) ü SAS cable : Apia - Pago Pago 3
Hawaiki cable project overview
q Project summary ü Provide interna onal bandwidth to Australia + New Zealand + Pacific Islands ü Propose point to point capacity via 100 Gb/s wavelengths ü System design capacity : 20 Tbps ü 2 step project q Time schedule ü Q1 2013 : signature of supplier contract ü Service date : 2015 q Project development by Intelia (www.intelia.nc) ü Leading telecom integrator ü Partnership with Ericsson, ZTE, Telstra, Prysmian, etc… ü 2011 turnover > USD 40M Commercial references : ü Supply and installa on of 3G+ mobile network in NC ü IP transit service for Gondwana cable in Sydney Submarine cable experience - in partnership with ASN: ü New Caledonia cable : Gondwana in 2008 - 2 100 km ü French Polynesia cable : Honotua in 2010 - 4 500 km 4 Hawaiki Cable Step 1
Main backbone / Strategic route
Hawaii California Hawaii
Guam
Madang Honiara Pago Pago Wallis Apia Tahiti Port Vila Suva Noumea Niue Nuku’alofa Rarotonga
Norfolk Is. Sydney Auckland
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Potential spurs for Pacific Islands
California OADM branching unit HawaiiHawaii Cable spur
Guam
Madang Honiara Wallis Pago Pago Apia Tahiti Port Vila Suva Noumea Niue Nuku’alofa Rarotonga
Norfolk Is. Sydney Auckland
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System specifications
q Step 1 specifica ons ü Link Sydney - Auckland - Hawaii (approx. 10 200 km) ü Including poten al spurs : Norfolk Island, Nouméa, Port Vila, Suva, Vava’u, Wallis, Apia and Pago Pago ü 2 fiber pairs, design capacity of 20 Tb/s ü Latency Sydney – Hawaii : 91 Ms ü Latency Auckland – Sydney: 21 Ms ü Cable life expecta on : 25 years
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Hawaii – California link
California HawaiiHawaii
Guam
Madang Honiara Wallis Pago Pago Apia Tahiti Port Vila Suva Noumea Niue Nuku’alofa Rarotonga
Norfolk Is. Sydney Auckland
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System specifications
q Step 2 specifica ons ü Link Hawaii – US West Coast (approx. 4 100 km) ü Configura on: 2 fiber pairs, design capacity of 20 Tb/s ü Latency Sydney – Hawaii – US West Coast = approx. 140 Ms ü Cable life expecta on : 25 years
9 Company structure
Project development
Financial and Tax System design services RFP supplier contract
Legal services
System supplier Hawaiki Cable Ltd TBD Registered in Auckland - NZ
System owner and operator
Capacity contracts Funding 10 www.hawaikicable.co.nz 11