Re: Lessons from the AU model

[bmanning () vacation karoshi com]

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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