[LINK] Aussie internet pain after Asian subsea cables cut

[Paul Brooks]

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
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>  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.