Re: [nznog] Pacific Fibre to Cease Operations - cites not enough investment.

Each hop adds time and well PacFibre was using direct pipe as lower latency than SC. On 1 August 2012 16:22, Matthew Moyle-Croft wrote:

Like: http://www.commsday.com/commsday/2011/exclusive-china-telecom-huawei-units-p... ?

Main issue is protection. If you buy AKL->SYD->Rest of World then you still have to buy matching SCCN in order to protect that capacity. So, SCCN won't get cheaper as they know you have to buy them anyway. PacFibre by building both ways allowed you to protect either leg using other non-SCCN capacity.

But deep down - there's a lot of unused capacity between Australia, NZ and the USA. Next chance is when SCCN need to start replacing their network in around 2025/2030 depending on engineering life estimates.

I actually wonder if the solution is to build via various Pacific Islands. ie. North Island to New Caledonia (already has Gondwana-1 back to Sydney) then across to the various island toward French Polynesia which has cable to Hawaii.

Sure, higher cost, but probably can offset that by getting funding to light up various island. Fairly certain Solomon Islands has a project too to build to AU or somewhere.

MMC

On 01/08/2012, at 12:54 PM, Joel Wirāmu Pauling wrote:

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So if you haven't seen this;

my question is if they don't have enough money to go "all the way" to LA why not at least re-align and put some NZ to AU fibre in?

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=10823806

-JoelW

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