I'm told the Chilean option is fraught with political problems but that rather than landing in the US, Panama or Tijuana are both large landing sites... I'm agnostic - I don't care where we go just so long as we start building stuff. I'm hoping we'll see something get off the ground in the next couple of years, otherwise any future connections will simply be from here to Sydney and we'll end up as a subsidiary of Australia for the rest of time. I'm not sure I could handle that. -----Original Message----- From: nznog-bounces(a)list.waikato.ac.nz [mailto:nznog-bounces(a)list.waikato.ac.nz] On Behalf Of Pieter De Wit Sent: Sunday, 11 November 2012 8:29 p.m. To: nznog(a)list.waikato.ac.nz Subject: Re: [nznog] Labour alleges failure of Southern Cross Cable On 11/11/2012 17:50, TreeNet Admin wrote:
On 11/11/2012 4:08 p.m., Richard Hector wrote:
I've been told the best alternate landing place is in the South Island - Nugget Point, near Tiwai Aluminium Smelter - as it's the shortest route to Australia. That would be great I think. Daft idea. Unless you're actually in Southland, it's a long way around ... and across a major fault/subduction zone. (The third largest earthquake in NZ's history (7.8) occurred in that part of
Paul Brislen wrote: the world (Dusky Sound) ... in 2009 ... plus a 7.2 in Fiordland in 2003.)
It would also be putting over a thousand kilometres of idiots with backhoes and post hole diggers, not to mention a minor waterway known as Cook Strait between the cable landing and the bulk of the population it would serve. For the primary cable, that makes perfect sense. But for a redundant backup, don't you want to be approaching as much of the country as
On 10/11/12 12:34, Don Stokes wrote: practical from the opposite side?
The only Nugget Pt I can find is on the opposite side of the island from Australia, though - closer to Dunedin than Tiwai Pt.
For real redundancy, though, how about bypassing Australia and going for South Africa - about the same distance away as San Francisco :-) Add in links to Chile/Argentina, and form a Southern Ring?
There is the small matter of a large field of icebergs and glaciers in the way of all the short paths to South Africa. The Chile/Argentina link has better prospects, though the shortest path still encounters the floating iceberg problems.
Add to that the fact that they have 0 bandwidth to anywhere.... :) SAT2 cable was full, iirc and SAT3 only linked to India etc up the west coast. Pieter _______________________________________________ NZNOG mailing list NZNOG(a)list.waikato.ac.nz http://list.waikato.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/nznog