-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 12/11/2012 14:22, Kris Price wrote:
My feeling was (not being an expert on this clearly) that landing a
cable from Sydney somewhere in the Waikato would be workable and probably provide enough diversity. It can pass right through Hamilton, at which there's enough fiber. Also this is pretty much the population center of NZ so from a capacity stand point it works well too. In theory national providers have enough capacity between Southern Cross in Auckland and the Waikato to feed the >50% of the population that's south of there, so that capacity is there, it's just now more traffic would potentially flow in the reverse from the Waikato to feed the <50% of the population in AKL. Just to clear up one thing, the area including and north of the line between Hamilton and Tauranga contains over half of the population. The "Golden Triangle" of Auckland-Hamilton-Tauranga is 49%, with the minor centres plus Whangarei contributing more. So landing to Hamilton would get you a huge portion of the population provided there's good connectivity (I don't actually know what the situation is) through to Tauranga. The "Golden Triangle" also provided 57% of national population growth over the last decade, and that is likely to continue. - -- Matthew Poole "Don't use force. Get a bigger hammer." -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlCgVFAACgkQTdEtTmUCdpzGwgCdHrIhEgdaAP5xc3j7+SEbO7A1 y5wAn06zeLxoXZF/yAr1kJo53shoXNuu =UBZM -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----