Hawaiki Cable signs up Solarix
Auckland, 17 January 2014 – Hawaiki Cable, the New Zealand registered company planning to build a 14,000 km cable system between New Zealand,
Australia, Hawaii and the US west coast, has signed up another customer.
Auckland-based trans-Tasman WAN provider Solarix Networks Limited has agreed to buy capacity on the New Zealand,
Australia and US segments of Hawaiki’s cable.
Solarix director Flemming H. Rasmussen said the 10-year, multi-million dollar deal with Hawaiki would improve Solarix’s
trans-Tasman service resiliency and introduce price competition.
“We treat Australia and New Zealand as a single market. Currently we use three carriers for our trans-Tasman workflow –
and all three carriers touch the Southern Cross Cable. Our partnership with Hawaiki will strengthen our market
position.”
Rémi Galasso, Chief Executive Officer of Hawaiki Cable Limited, said: “We have received fantastic support for this
project since the moment it was announced last year. The deal with Solarix Networks takes us another step closer to
cable deployment, and a future-proof cable system that links New Zealand to the rest of the world.”
Last year in September, Hawaiki signed a deal with US-based cable developer TE SubCom, who will design and lay the
planned cable.
Hawaiki has secured capacity deals with a number of telecommunications service providers on both sides of the Tasman,
including ASX-listed companies TPG Telecom Limited and iiNet, and local New Zealand ISPs.
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