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DonGould: http://pacific.scoop.co.nz/2012/08/new-fibre-optic-plan-put-to-pacific-countries-at-forum/ bit more info there.
Wonder if it will all just be paid for by the pacific governments?
Publius: A cable landing in the south island will never happen simply because of latency. Why add ~7ms of latency for 1/3 of your users?
Publius: You still have to build independent fibre distribution within NZ anyway (which we already have 3 companies providing) so landing in the south island doesn't actually provide any real benefit.
Publius:Auckland has two coasts anyway so its not like auckland itself is a risk for the rest of the country. Southern cross lands a Takapuna and Whenuapai, and Pacific cable was going to do the same, and no doubt this project will too.
Publius: A cable landing in the south island will never happen simply because of latency. Why add ~7ms of latency for 1/3 of your users?
You still have to build independent fibre distribution within NZ anyway (which we already have 3 companies providing) so landing in the south island doesn't actually provide any real benefit.
Auckland has two coasts anyway so its not like auckland itself is a risk for the rest of the country. Southern cross lands a Takapuna and Whenuapai, and Pacific cable was going to do the same, and no doubt this project will too.
DonGould:
Isn't this just exactly the same plan as PF was?
Ragnor:DonGould:
Isn't this just exactly the same plan as PF was?
Pacific Fibre's plan was direct NZ to US west coast no hops inbetween, with a NZ to AU branch, unprotected capacity.
This new cable is going to have lots and hops so probably higher latency, also not sure if it will be protected capacity or not?
Publius: Since the demise of Pacific Fibre there seems to be many who are now thinking a link to AU is all that is needed. Most companies who serve a lot of data do host in AU (youtube, steam, google, etc) and seem to be willing to build data centers in AU so better to have a fibre cable to content ~20ms away than ~70ms away in US.
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