Having now had this (or similar) arguments several times now, AFAICS it boils down to:<br><br>Diversity provided by any fibre path that is not going terrestrially up through the passage passing near(near being 100K or so of ) Huntly to/from Auckland to the rest of the country. Any solution solving for this would be a &#39;good thing&#39;. <br>

<br>Several times over the last decade we have had fibre cuts which were &quot;almost&quot; situations on that stretch and all the carriers (AFAIK) have their cables fairly close together around this point. Not counting transmission networks fibres (i.e Transpower) etc - which for Internets/national transport don&#39;t really matter.<br>

<br>How this diversity happens (marine loop out around the Coromandel, or along the west coast, or a more southern landing) is irrelevant; it will solve the number one issue and concern which is Diversity/Resiliency out of Auckland to $restofNZ<br>

<br>My suspicion is that most of the other suggestions are trying to solve for multiple factors including presuming it would bring better international connectivity to $landpointnearyou - but all it needs to achieve is the above.<br>

<br>my 0.02$<br><br>-Joel<br><br><a href="http://gplus.to/aenertia">http://gplus.to/aenertia</a><br>@aenertia<br><br><br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div>��</div></div></div>