Lessons from the AU model
bmanning at vacation.karoshi.com
bmanning at vacation.karoshi.com
Mon Jan 21 04:32:15 UTC 2008
On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 10:46:58AM +1030, Matthew Moyle-Croft wrote:
>
> The cost is getting out of Oz. Once you get to Japan (Australia Japan
> Cable) then it's not that expensive (heck cable station to Tokyo is more
> than cable station to USA).
>
> Currently there are 3 cable systems out of Australia:
>
> Southern Cross Cable (SXC) - 2 legs to the US, one via Fiji, one via NZ.
> Australia Japan Cable (AJC) - one leg from Sydney to Guam and onto Tokyo.
> SEAMEWE3 (SMW3) - Perth to Singapore (old, and expensive).
> PIPE Network is building Sydney to Guam (PPC-1) which will link up with
> a VSNL Cable to Japan and onto the USA.
>
> There's rumour another cable will be build Perth to Singapore, but it's
> been that way for years so let's see.
the perth (to anywhere else) cable systems have been planned and
evetually binned for years- truth. having been in on the planning
and design for a few of them. the curent plan seems to have
legs, but is early days. www.ochrenetworks.com - if all goes
according to plan, this might go live before the stablization
of IPv4... :)
--bill
>
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