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We have all experienced the distorted garble of a video call gone wrong in the past year, or perhaps endless buffering on a popular streaming app.
Applications like video calls and streaming require a lot of bandwidth and high usage stretches existing capacity.
Expanding that capacity in an isolated place like Hawaii is not easy. Internet reaches the Hawaiian Islands and other far flung corners of the world predominantly through undersea cables.
Those fiber optic pipelines crisscross the globe, connecting major continental cities and remote island outposts.
For a while that system has worked to Hawaii’s advantage. Sitting almost dead center in the Pacific, the Hawaiian Islands were an ideal location for trans-oceanic cables to make landfall and connect.
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