As operators of international television re-broadcasting services, HPT’s management for years observed firsthand the limitations of existing infrastructure to reach deep Asia. Foreseeing a dramatic increase in demand for networking services to and from Asia, we realized the market would gravitate to more affordable deep reach Asia solutions that were ideally provided by a single source US based provider.
HPT has built the largest privately owned teleport in Hawaii, and operates a Pan-Asian gateway networking infrastructure that integrates:
- Hawaii’s strategic geographic position as a mid-point in the Pacific Ocean;
- low-cost, high capacity, high-speed trans-oceanic fiber between Hawaii and the US mainland,
- strategic conduits to key international networking exchanges, and
- uplinking contracts to all over-Asia satellites featuring spot beams on Hawaii.
By utilizing fiber to place a US based uplink point in Hawaii 2,300 miles farther west than the West Coast of the US mainland, HPT has extended the reach of the US terrestrial networks by providing a “gateway” international networking infrastructure.
HPT’s antenna uplink data streams literally “ride the horizon” over the Pacific Ocean to uplink and downlink HPT customer circuits to and from satellites orbiting directly over Asia. These conduits culminate as circuits reaching to and from deep reach Asia networking nodes via HPT antenna arrays.
Diagram showing how US West Coast teleports can only reach satellites sitting over the middle of the Pacific, whereas HPT by linking back to the US over 2300 miles of trans-oceanic fiber, can reach satellites which sit directly over Asia, extending one-hop satellite broadcasting reach from the US into all of Asia rather than just the east coast of Asia.
HPT’s Pan-Asian Gateway infrastructure produces a 3,500 mile extension of the global international backbone networks into nearly all of Asia’s regional markets, resulting in an additional market of 2.4 billion people made accessible to US based terrestrial networks via one-hop satellite circuit transmissions.
Diagram showing the added geographic extension produced by uplinking from Hawaii rather than the West Coast of the United States.
This resulting powerful combination of unique attributes enables HPT’s Pan-Asian Gateway nexus point to occupy a high value, one-of-a-kind niche, that functionally bridges worlds.
