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An international consortium of companies have formed a joint corporation to work towards development of a submarine fibre optic system connecting Asia and Europe through the Arctic.

Independent telecommunications challenger, Hawaiki Submarine Cable LP, today commenced commercial operations for its 15,000km fibre optic deep-sea cable linking Australia, New Zealand, the Pacific and United States.

Hawaiki Cable and TE SubCom, a TE Connectivity company, have announced that more than half of the 15,000km of undersea fibre-optic cable that comprises the Hawaiki trans-Pacific cable system has been implemented.

Pauline Hanson, now a member of the Senate’s Joint Standing Committee for the National Broadband Network, has written to Communications Minister Mitch Fifield seeking his support for a 90km fibre optic link to Norfolk Island from the Hawaiki Cable that will link Australia, New Zealand, the United States and Hawaii.

Internet Australia is keeping up the pressure on the Federal Government to abandon copper in favour of a fibre-based network for the National Broadband Network (nbn).

Belden has introduced a new FiberExpress® Brilliance® field-installable connector where terminations can be made in less than five seconds.