[outages] SEA-ME-WE3 undersea cable cut

[Noel Butler]

Hi Martin, LTNC


On Wed, 2013-01-16 at 12:14 +0000, Martin Hepworth wrote:

> Uk to singapore and Oz go west from uk across both Atlantic and
> Pacific. Routes to Oz vary across pacific day on day eithe via
> japan/singapore or southerncross cable to nz first
> 
> 


I could never understand why no-one built a decent direct cable from
Perth to Europe via Gulf of Aden
A lot of the Asia traffic from AU can still go via U.S. because its much
cheaper.

The stupidest thing Australians do is rely primarily on Sydney for 90%
of int traffic, the cables and Sats out of Perth wont hold up if
terrorists blew the crap out of Sydney points.  Brisbane is the next
best landing point (and technically closer than Syd), but is ignored,
Melbourne pretty much too, though IIRC there is (or was) a cable from
Melbourne to NZ


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