[LINK] Aussie internet pain after Asian subsea cables cut

[Robert Brockway]

On Tue, 5 Sep 2017, David Lochrin wrote:

> On Tuesday 05 September 2017 at 11:49 Paul Brooks wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> But even at some dollar & performance cost, it would be a nice backup 
> solution for organisations using offshore cloud storage.

It'd be in the cloud as soon as the F/A-18s hit 5000m wouldn't it?

Rob