For those that like a bit of cable history (I do). I've also got some of the original minutes...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Red_Line On 28 July 2017 at 10:56, John Edwards <[email protected]> wrote: > Solomon Islands is part of the Commonwealth, like Australia. Pacific > islands have historically been strategic locations. > > Military have always been keen on having their comms run through > controlled territories. > > WW1 telegraphs to Australia went London => Capetown => Cocos Islands => > Freemantle => Adelaide => Sydney so that they did not have to traverse an > enemy controlled land. That's right, there was a submarine landing station > at Grange near Adelaide, then the Sydney/Melbourne path was terrestrial. > > You can imagine how the risk analysis starts to stack up for defence > advisors if there's an outside chance they might have a future issue with > the comms vendor's major investor. > > John > > > > On 27 July 2017 at 15:06, Mark Newton <[email protected]> wrote: > >> A submarine cable connecting Sydney to the Solomon Islands is being >> refused a landing permit in Sydney because it’s being built by Huawei. >> >> http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/austra >> lia-refuses-to-connect-to-undersea-cable-built-by-chines >> e-company-20170726-gxj9bf.html >> >> So, uh, don’t do that then, hey? >> >> - mark >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> AusNOG mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > AusNOG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog > >
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