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  1. Re:Surprisingly small sounding numbers by Matt_R · · Score: 1 · on Transpacific Unity Fiber Optic Cable Leaves Japan

    Take a look at this post on the Pipe PPC-1 cable laying blog. It explains the repeaters.

  2. Re:How does that work, exactly? by Matt_R · · Score: 2, Informative · on Transpacific Unity Fiber Optic Cable Leaves Japan

    take a look at http://www.pipeinternational.com/ - a blog site by the company that recently laid a cable from Sydney to Guam

  3. Re:Net Importers (excuse the pun) by Chuck+Chunder · · Score: 1 · on Obama Looks Down Under For Broadband Plan

    And who is willing to invest?

    PPC-1 went live just this month didn't it?

    Of course you are still correct, our geography dictates that international connectivity is always going to be significantly more expensive than many other places in the world.

  4. Three upgrades are coming by Namarrgon · · Score: 5, Insightful · on Australia To Build Fiber-To-the-Premises Network
    • Southern Cross have upgraded their US link from 600Gbps to 860Gbps.
    • Telstra and Alcatel are landing their new 1.3Tbps cable to Hawaii
    • PIPE Networks are on track with their 1.9Tbps cable to Guam.
  5. Re:If I was cynical by Namarrgon · · Score: 4, Interesting · on Australia To Build Fiber-To-the-Premises Network

    I'd label this an attempt by Senator Conroy to backdoor his internet filtering into existence

    He doesn't need to spend $43B to do that; passing legislation to force ISPs to do it for him is quite sufficient.

    we'll likely have to pay $100/month for access and be limited to 20GB of data traffic (both up and downstream) per month.

    We'd be wishing for $100/20GB, if Telstra built the network. Because this is wholesale-only (no Telstra-style conflicts of interest), ISPs can compete fairly.

    The other side of the coin is our overseas links. Right now there's a comfortable duopoly keeping prices high (and quotas low), but that may change a little when PIPE Networks gets their Guam cable built. We're going to need a lot more, though, when 19M people get their connections bumped up to 100Mbps.

  6. Re:Make the damn fisherman get driver's licenses by Goffee71 · · Score: 2, Interesting · on The Men Who Fix the Internet

    This site - PPC1 covers in detail a new cable project linking Australia to Guam and explains a lot of the hazards and work involved http://www.pipeinternational.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=22&Itemid=66

  7. Re:Repeaters by Matt_R · · Score: 2, Informative · on 'Slow' Light To Speed Up the Net

    I thought one had to use repeaters every once and a while (every few km?) anyway in fiber optics, which AFIAK work by doing just what this is talking about avoiding, translate light into electrical signals back into light.

    They have optical amplifiers these days. http://www.pipeinternational.com/index.php?limitstart=70

  8. Check out the cable laying blog by edremy · · Score: 4, Informative · on Cable-Laying Boom Will Boost Internet Capacity
    See the Pipe International blog about the cable they are laying between Australia and Guam. There's tons of detail in here for any sort of geek- stuff on the ships, sonar and mapping of the seabed, how modern cables amplify signals, details on the buildings that house both ends and tons more.

    One of the oddest blogs out there, but strangely compelling.

  9. You call that a pipe!? by n1ckml007 · · Score: 1 · on How To Build a $188M Submarine Cable System

    You call that a pipe?! Now this http://www.pipeinternational.com/is a pipe!