Just jumping in a bit - as one of the founders and looking after the tech side, some good feedback from the group - thanks. Agree with Matthew and others - we don't see the need for diversity - SX needed it because there wasn't the alternatives in 2000. Plenty of other systems now exist for diversity, especially ex Australia. We will also do bandwidth swaps on other systems to offer diversity products but most bigger players will buy their own. You might be interested in our latency forecasts. Because we will be a single hop NZ to US, our route length is lowest at 10,500 km. Latency Comparisons Pacific Fibre would have the lowest latency to the US of any existing cable system (latency estimates from other systems' web sites). Sydney to US: .. Pacific Fibre: 65 ms (via NZ) .. Endeavour: 69 ms (via Hawaii) .. Southern Cross: 70 ms (via NZ/Hawaii - landing station to landing station only) .. Southern Cross: 72 ms (via Fiji/Hawaii - landing station to landing station only) .. PPC-1: 87 ms (via Guam/Hawaii) Auckland to US: .. Pacific Fibre: 54 ms (direct to US) .. Southern Cross: 61 ms (via Hawaii - landing station to landing station only) We is designed as a POP to POP system. Re demand Timely with NBN in Australia and UFBI in NZ. We are confident of plenty of demand for Pacific Fibre. Demand is also driven by price of course so watch this space. I have a technical overview document available - mail me off list if you want a copy Cheers John Humphrey T: +64 9 522 2138 | M: +64 21 555 933 E: john(a)johnhumphrey.co.nz | Skype: kiwijohnh LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/johnhumphrey -----Original Message----- From: nznog-bounces(a)list.waikato.ac.nz [mailto:nznog-bounces(a)list.waikato.ac.nz] On Behalf Of Robert Larsen Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2010 4:50 PM To: nznog Subject: Re: [nznog] Fwd: [members-discuss] Pacific Fibre And some more info on GZNZ: http://www.geekzone.co.nz/juha/7143 On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 4:42 PM, Joel Wiramu Pauling wrote:

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