American Samoa Hawaii Cable company (“ASH”) has announced the successful activation of new international submarine cable bandwidth on the TUI SAMOA cable for all its customers.
ASH is the company which manages the undersea fiber optic cable connecting American Samoa, and Samoa to Hawaii.
ASG owns a third of shares in the company while BlueSky’s parent company owns the rest.
A press release from ASH says since reaching full capacity a few years ago, ASH has now been able to relieve the demands from its contracted customers for additional capacity by leasing submarine cable bandwidth on the Samoa Submarine Cable Company (“SSCC”).
The new bandwidth now presents an alternative route for operators to the current ASH Cable that links American Samoa direct to Hawaii.
Emmanuel Delanoue, CEO of the company which owns Tui Samoa, SSCC, revealed, “This lease signed with ASH in late March was our first from Samoa to California and became SSCC’s largest capacity contract signed to date.”
President of ASH Cable, Toleafoa Douglas Creevey added, “The new bandwidth was technically provisioned a few weeks ago on the new TUI SAMOA Cable, which connects optically directly onto the SOUTHERN CROSS Cable through to USA, terminating at the CORESITE Data Centre in San Jose, California.
The press release does not say how much more capacity will be added to Ash whose previous capacity was 1 gigabyte.
Toleafoa pointed out that following successful testing and trials, all ASH Customers are now selectively delivering parts of their data traffic for respective customers on the new secure route.
He said, “Furthermore, our SAS Cable that links American Samoa and Samoa has recently been upgraded with new terminal equipment capable of increasing capacity well over 100 times, to cater for foreseeable future growth of data traffic between the two countries from further submarine cables yet to launch, complementing the role of ASH to provide enhanced services for all Samoans.”
SSCC CEO Delanoue added, “We are pleased to welcome ASH and its customers and thank ASH for its trust.
“This agreement encompasses all the work done at SSCC board and management level to encourage us to integrate customer needs with the benefits of the TUI SAMOA cable in order to develop tailor-made solutions.
