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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