Hawaii Inter-Island Cable System

HICS or Hawaii Inter-Island Cable System is a fiber optic submarine telecommunications cable system linking together six of the eight main Hawaiian Islands with each other.^[1]

Hawaii Inter-Island Cable System, HICS
Owners: Hawaiian Telcom
Landing points Lihue Terminal, Wailua Point, Kauai Ko Olina Terminal, Kahe Point, Oahu Koko Head Terminal, Sandy Beach, Oahu Kihei Terminal, Mokapu, Maui Kawaihae Terminal, Spencer Beach, Island of Hawaii
Total length	480 km
Design capacity	2.5 Gbit/s
Date of first use	July 1994

It has landing points^[2] in:

• Lihue Terminal, Wailua Point, Kauai, Hawaii, U.S.A.
• Ko Olina Terminal, Kahe Point, Oahu, Hawaii, U.S.A.
• Koko Head Terminal, Sandy Beach, Oahu, Hawaii, U.S.A.
• Kihei Terminal, Mokapu, Maui, Hawaii, U.S.A.
• Kawaihae Terminal, Spencer Beach, Island of Hawaii, U.S.A.

It has a transmission capacity of 2.5 Gbit/s, and a total cable length of 298 miles (480 km). It started operation on July 20, 1994, and is operated and maintained by Hawaiian Telcom.