Honotua

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Honotua is a submarine cable system that connects several islands of French Polynesia via Tahiti with Hawaii and thus worldwide. The cable was laid by ASN Alcatel-Lucent Submarine Networks from the cable ship Île de Ré between December 2009 and June 2010 and is approximately 4650 kilometers long. The submarine cable was laid to a depth of up to 6000 meters. The cost was 9.5 billion CFP francs (XPF), about 80 million euros.

The name was formed from the Tahitian word "HONO" for "link". It is the connection between people, races, cultures and civilizations. "TUA" means "the open sea", "the high seas". But it is also “the back”, “the backbone”. Thus, HONOTUA is the link that connects Polynesia with the rest of the world, the backbone on which all information channels are connected.

The international portion of the cable contains a single fiber pair specified for bandwidths of 32 × 10 Gbit / s each with an initial lighting capacity of 2 × 10 Gbit / s. The household system has two fiber pairs, each specified for 8 × 10 Gbit / s, with an initial lighting capacity of 2 × 2.5 Gbit / s. The cable has increased the capacity forty-fold from 500 Mbit / s to 20 Gbit / s.

It has cable landing points at:

First the islands of Bora Bora, Raiatea and Huahine were connected with Moorea, then Moorea with Tahiti and finally Tahiti with Hawaii. The operator of this cable is the French Polynesian Office for Post and Communication of the Polynésie Française (OPT).

A memorial commemorates the cable at its landing point in Tahiti. Among other things, there is an inscription on it: "In memory of the people in Papenoo and Hawaii who made connections in the past."

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Honotua. In: Submarine Networks. Retrieved February 28, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Honotua Cable Enables High-speed Internet Offers in Tahiti. In: Submarine Networks. June 12, 2011, accessed February 28, 2020 .