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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 > > Matthew Moyle-Croft - Internode/Agile - Networks > Level 5, 150 Grenfell Street, Adelaide, SA 5000 Australia > Email: [email protected] Web: http://www.on.net > Direct: +61-8-8228-2909 Mobile: +61-419-900-366 > Reception: +61-8-8228-2999 Fax: +61-8-8235-6909 > > "The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, > but in escaping from the old ones" - John Maynard Keynes
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