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Located on the University of Hawaiʻi West Oʻahu campus in Kapolei, the UH West Oʻahu Cable Landing Station (CLS) represents a transformative shift in Pacific digital infrastructure, as Google's pacific gateway and Hawaiʻi’s domestic cable landing station.
The UH West Oʻahu CLS facility occupies approximately four acres on the UH West Oʻahu campus, serving a dual mandate: acting as an international landing node for Google's multi-billion-dollar global subsea network while simultaneously functioning as the primary Oʻahu terminus for Hawaiʻi’s open-access domestic inter-island system.
Developed through an unprecedented public-private partnership (PPP) between the University of Hawaiʻi (UH), Google LLC, and Ocean Networks Inc. (ONI), the multi-acre facility operates as a carrier-neutral, highly secure telecommunications gateway.
Under a long-term ground lease approved by the UH Board of Regents, Google owns, designs and operates the UH West Oʻahu CLS. The physical cable landing station (CLS) facility at UH West Oʻahu is owned by Humuhumu Services LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Google LLC.
Incorporated as a Delaware limited liability company (LLC), Humuhumu Services LLC is structured as a wholly owned, special-purpose subsidiary of Google LLC, registered as a foreign LLC with the Hawaiʻi Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs (DCCA) to hold real estate rights, land leases, and cable easements on Oʻahu.
While Humuhumu Services LLC owns the UH West Oʻahu CLS facility, Starfish Infrastructure Inc, an indirect wholly owned subsidiary of Google LLC and a Delaware company, acts as the landing party for Google's subsea cables (including Tabua, Taihei, etc.) landing at the UH West Oʻahu CLS.
The UH West Oʻahu CLS serves as a central anchor for Google’s Pacific Connect initiative—a strategic subsea architecture designed to establish self-healing, low-latency express paths across the Pacific Ocean connecting North America, East Asia, and Oceania.
Taihei Cable System
Route: Hawaiʻi (UH West Oʻahu) ↔ Japan (Takahagi).
Role: Direct transpacific route providing dedicated high-capacity bandwidth between Hawaiʻi and East Asia, bypassing traditional congestion along northern routes.
Tabua Cable System
Route: US West Coast ↔ Hawaiʻi (UH West Oʻahu) ↔ Fiji ↔ Australia.
Role: Extended South Pacific trunk featuring 16 fiber pairs (272+ Tbps capacity) providing path diversity to Australia and the South Pacific islands.
Pacific Regional Interlink
Route: Hawaiʻi ↔ Guam ↔ Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI).
Role: Regional mid-ocean trunk connecting Hawaiian landing nodes directly to Western Pacific communication hubs.
Beyond its international role, the UH West Oʻahu CLS addresses Hawaiʻi’s urgent domestic challenge: replacing three aging inter-island subsea cable networks (HICS, HIFN, and Paniolo). The facility functions as the primary Oʻahu landing node for the Hawaiian Islands Fiber Link (HIFL), a $120M–$140M open-access subsea system built by Ocean Networks Inc. in partnership with UH under the state’s Connect Kākou digital equity initiative.
Direct Subsea Hand-off & Cost Elimination
Co-locating HIFL’s 24-fiber-pair inter-island trunk within the same facility as Google’s transpacific cables enables direct, in-building optical hand-offs. This eliminates the need for expensive terrestrial cross-island backhaul connections to distant landing stations on Oʻahu, yielding significant operational savings for the university and commercial operators.
Archipelago-Wide Distribution
From West Oʻahu, HIFL connects directly to landing points on Hawaiʻi Island (PACRC/UH Hilo), Maui, Kauaʻi, Molokaʻi, and Lānaʻi. This guarantees that outer-island communities receive equalized access to global transpacific capacity terminating at the West Oʻahu hub.
| Parameter | Facility Specifications & Structural Details |
|---|---|
| Facility Name | UH West Oʻahu Cable Landing Station (CLS) |
| Location | UH West Oʻahu Campus, Kapolei, City & County of Honolulu, Hawaiʻi |
| Site Footprint | ~4 Acres under long-term ground lease from the University of Hawaiʻi |
| Facility Owner | Humuhumu Services LLC, a wholly owned, special-purpose subsidiary of Google LLC |
| Strategic PPP Partners | University of Hawaiʻi System, Ocean Networks Inc. (ONI), State of Hawaiʻi (Connect Kākou) |
| Operational Model | Carrier-Neutral, Open-Access Interconnection Platform |
| Cable Systems | Taihei, Tabua, Pacific Regional Interlink, HIFL |
