"The ASHC System will consist of two segments of digital fiber-optic cable. The first,
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The American Samoa - Hawaii Cable (ASH Cable) started out life as PacRim East, a two-pair fibre optic cable with electrical repeaters, capable of 560 mbps per pair that linked Hawaii and New Zealand. PacRim East was decommissioned in 2007. In 2009 the decommissioned cable was cut and dragged to Pago Pago, and brought back into service.
ASH has two segments. The first 4,232 km segment connects Keawaula, on the island of Oahu in Hawaii, with Iliili, in American Samoa. In Keawaula, ASH shares a landing station with TPC-5. The second segment
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connects Iliili, American Samoa, with Apia, Samoa
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, and is known as the SAS Cable.
The first segment has a two fibre pairs and a design capacity and initial configuration capacity of 1.12 Gbps.
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To construct the ASHC System, the Applicants will remove a section of the former Pac Rim East undersea cable system between New Zealand and Hawaii (which ceased carrying commercial traffic on that route in 2007) and reinstall that section to terminate at the cable stations at Iliili, American Samoa, and Apia, Samoa.6 The new ASHC System will still use the same Hawaii landing facilities as the former Pac Rim East system, including the existing bore pipes, beach manhole, conduit, and Keawaula cable station. TPC-5 and the soon-to-be-built Sydney-Hawaii Cable System will also land in Hawaii using these facilities.7" From FCC Landing License Application
Total Cable Length 4368 km
Kewaula Beach to Iliili 4232 km
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Because it uses electrical repeaters, and not optical repeaters, it can't be upgraded economically.
Lands at:
- Keawaula, Hawaii
- Pago Pago, American Samoa
Additional Resources:
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Samoa_Hawaii_Cable
- https://web.archive.org/web/20190528100709/https://www.submarinenetworks.com/systems/trans-pacific/ash-sas
- https://web.archive.org/web/20190528100623/http://www.samoanews.com/local-news/80000-asg-ash-cable-it-dividends-and-tax-payments
- https://web.archive.org/web/20190528100619/http://www.samoanews.com/local-news/samoas-fiber-optic-cable-debt-american-samoa-remains-unknown
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