It was completed by closing the last gap in Honolulu Harbor, Hawaii, at 6:25 a.m. B.S.T.
[2] COMPAC was designed to extend west towards Commonwealth nations in the Pacific, linking Vancouver to Auckland, New Zealand and Sydney, Australia, via Honolulu and Suva in Fiji.
[citation needed] It spanned 14,000 miles, from Oban in Scotland via CANTAT to Newfoundland, by microwave link across Canada, then cable on to Hawaii, Suva (Fiji), Auckland (New Zealand), and Sydney (Australia).
The link contains 11,000 miles of telephone cable, which, at the time, provided 80 two-way speech channels or 1,760 teleprinter circuits.
[3] In addition, the cable carried telegraph traffic, leased circuits for airlines, shipping companies and other commercial transmission.