Auckland, New Zealand and Branchburg, NJ, USA – January 22, 2018 – XSite Modular, a design-builder of Modular Cable Landing Stations (MCLS) and associated buildings for the submarine cable industry, has been awarded the contract to provide a cable landing station in Oahu, Hawaii, by Hawaiki Submarine Cable LP.
This landing station will be part of the Hawaiki submarine cable system, a 15,000-km (8,700 mile) transpacific cable that will link Australia and New Zealand to the continental United States, as well as Hawaii and American Samoa, with options to expand to additional South Pacific islands. It will deliver more than 43 Tbps of capacity and will be the fastest and largest link between the U.S. and Australia and New Zealand. This entire system is scheduled to be ready for service in June 2018.
XSite MCLS is designed to be a facility capable of resisting various natural disasters, security threats, and failure scenarios. The permanent steel and concrete building is designed to a 50-year lifespan and constructed using modular technology.
The MCLS facility being provided for the Hawaiki Submarine Cable consists of ten modules, complete with critical services, including cooling, ventilation, fire alarm and suppression, AC backup power, lightning protection, DC plant, UPS, cable management, access control, video surveillance and building management system.
The XSite Modular design team is based in New Jersey, while fabrication is underway at a dedicated modular facility in the United States.
Once completed, the ten modules containing top-line, high-value equipment will be shipped to Oahu, Hawaii, where it will be set and the on-site assembly completed, with final testing performed.
To learn more, you can visit XSite Modular at PTC’18 in Honolulu, HI. Please contact Xavier Toby to schedule a meeting at xavier.toby@xsitemodular.com.
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About Hawaiki Submarine Cable LP
Hawaiki Submarine Cable LP, headquartered in Auckland, New Zealand, is the owner and developer of the Hawaiki submarine cable system (Hawaiki). Hawaiki is a carrier-neutral submarine cable linking Australia, New Zealand, Hawaii and Oregon, on the U.S. west coast. For more information, visit www.hawaikicable.co.nz.
About XSite Modular
XSite Modular is a design-builder of Modular Cable Landing Stations and associated buildings for the submarine cable industry. XSite utilizes an engineered, optimized and productized approach that is easily customized for clients’ specific telecom DC power requirements and space/program needs.
XSite’s transformational approach allows for a dramatically reduced risk for clients by providing a turnkey modular cable landing station to deliver time-sensitive, critical infrastructure to often challenging locations. XSite works with clients all over the world and our experienced team has set buildings on five of the seven continents, and the team have never missed a ready for service (RFS) date.
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Xavier Toby, Director of Marketing and Communications
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