Without the third leg (AU or Asia to USA) of the triangle (from the diagram on the website) it is of limited usefulness IMHO. I would have thought looking at the extremely successful design of SC would have been a good place to start. -----Original Message----- From: nznog-bounces(a)list.waikato.ac.nz [mailto:nznog-bounces(a)list.waikato.ac.nz] On Behalf Of Joe Abley Sent: Thursday, 11 March 2010 2:16 p.m. To: Joel Wiramu Pauling Cc: nznog Subject: Re: [nznog] Fwd: [members-discuss] Pacific Fibre On 2010-03-10, at 20:12, Joel Wiramu Pauling wrote:
This will interest people.
Cost is estimated to be around 900 million NZ and to be operational by 2013. Not sure where it will land.
That does seem interesting. However, if the goal is "unlimited high speed broadband for NZ and Australia" then it seems like it's only part of the puzzle -- the last mile still has to be dealt with. Joe _______________________________________________ NZNOG mailing list NZNOG(a)list.waikato.ac.nz http://list.waikato.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/nznog The information contained in this e-mail is confidential and may be legally privileged. If you have received it in error, you may not read, use, copy or disclose this email. If you are not the intended recipient, please let us know by reply e-mail immediately and then delete this email from your system. We shall not be responsible for any changes to, or interception of, this email or any attachment after it leaves our information systems. We accept no responsibility for viruses or defects in this email or any attachments.