On 5/09/2017 8:54 AM, Tom Worthington wrote: > On 03/09/17 22:24, Stephen Loosley wrote: > >> Aussie internet pain after Asian subsea cables cut ... > > LINKGRAM > > LINK INSTITUTE ACTIVATES EMERGENCY INTERNET PLAN FOR BROKEN CABLE > > Canberra, 4 September 2017: In response to the broken subsea cables to Hong > Kong, > the Link Institute has activated its emergency Internet response plan. > > The Australian government is providing two F/A-18E aircraft for a shuttle > service > from Singapore to Christmas Island, which has the > closest working mainland fibre connection to Australia with excess capacity. > In > place of bombs, the aircraft will be carrying the world's largest flash > drives. Sadly for this plan, Christmas Island doesn't have a fibre cable - it currently uses satellite. There is an option to build a spur off a new cable that will pass close by, sometime in the next year or two.
The F/A-18 fleet will have to fly from Darwin, or Learmonth base near Exmouth - greatly increasing the latency of the relay, as well as the fuel consumption cost per GB. P. _______________________________________________ Link mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
