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| Thread ID: 105899 | 2009-12-18 02:54:00 | Help me understand the Southern Cross Cable | Chilling_Silence (9) | Press F1 |
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| 840672 | 2009-12-18 02:54:00 | So let me get this right: Originally supposed to provide 120gbps Currently pumping out some 780gbps www.stuff.co.nz Is that NZ's only / main way for data coming in to NZ? There are no alternatives, correct? Does anybody know it's approximate utilization, or amount of that 780gbps that has been "rationed" out (AFAIK it's sold on CIR throuput rate)? Cheers Chill. |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 840673 | 2009-12-18 03:05:00 | Looks like its going up to 1.2 TB in 2010 according to Wikipedia, and may go to 2.4. Looks like there maybe a competitor soon - Kordia Optikor (www.nbr.co.nz). It maybe ready in 2011 (www.nbr.co.nz) | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 840674 | 2009-12-18 03:07:00 | Ah but as of now that's the only *main* way to get data into NZ? | Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 840675 | 2009-12-18 03:09:00 | From what Ive read yup it is as of now. as it says here (www.3news.co.nz) New Zealand’s high speed internet connection to the rest of the world relies on one underwater cable – the Southern Cross, which links Auckland to the United States. |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 840676 | 2009-12-18 03:11:00 | Yup, one cable in and one cable out. | beeswax34 (63) | ||
| 840677 | 2009-12-18 03:11:00 | I think there is another cable going through Aussie. :) |
Trev (427) | ||
| 840678 | 2009-12-18 03:16:00 | 780gbps really is sfa for a whole country. :ban | wratterus (105) | ||
| 840679 | 2009-12-18 03:22:00 | Before Southern Cross the NZ Gateway was at Waikato University, originally around 2.4 kbps, then increasingas time went on. Even on the DSIRnet in the early 90s, connection very slow compared to now, domestically. There were cables and also a satellite link to Hawaii, but I doubt if any of that is still working. "Between 1995/1996 and 2001. * Waikato no longer main connectivity. Rex Croft not looking after .nz. Telecom/Netway got it because nobody else wanted it." www.wlug.org.nz |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 840680 | 2009-12-18 03:35:00 | 780gbps really is sfa for a whole country. :ban Agreed. Imagine everybody has 100mbps connections. That's jack all when you consider there are international websites hosted here, so lets say 3/4 of that is residential use, thats 585gbps for residential (Not including anything business at all in this matter), that means there's 5,850 homes that can have a 100mbps pipe... Naturally it doesn't work out quite like my math shows, but yeah, it's SFA... And that's why I'm of the opinion the Govt is better off spending money to upgrade the international circuits than on making another fibre backbone across NZ. However, I may still be misinformed... |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 840681 | 2009-12-18 03:45:00 | And that's why I'm of the opinion the Govt is better off spending money to upgrade the international circuits than on making another fibre backbone across NZ. Exactly. However, I may still be misinformed... I highly doubt it. :p |
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