[101941] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Lessons from the AU model
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com)
Sun Jan 20 23:40:34 2008
Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 04:32:15 +0000
From: bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com
To: Matthew Moyle-Croft <mmc@internode.com.au>
Cc: Andy Davidson <andy@nosignal.org>, Andrew Odlyzko <odlyzko@dtc.umn.edu>,
nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <4793E47A.2000402@internode.com.au>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
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: mmc@internode.com.au 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
