ZT: Second internet cable planned

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希望这次真的能实现，让这个落后的国家稍微进步一点也好

http://www.stuff.co.nz/technology/digital-living/60069400/second-internet-cable-planned.html

Southern Cross Cable's near monopoly over international internet traffic appears to be dangling by a thread.

After years of failed ventures and dashed hopes, Hawaiki Cable chief executive Remi Galasso said his company was just a few weeks away from confirming it would build a competing US$300 million (NZ$350m) cable linking New Zealand and Australia to the United States.

The former Alcatel-Lucent executive said Hawaiki had secured a major New Zealand company to be its equity partner and an Australasian bank willing to provide debt financing.

All that remained was for Hawaiki to convert some "letters of intent" it already had from customers into firm contracts and "complete the bank process to unlock the funds".

"This is not a piece of cake. We are dealing with large organisations, but I am confident the finishing line is a few weeks away," Galasso said.

Hawaiki would then put into effect the contract it had with United States supplier TE SubCom to lay the the 13,127 kilometre-long cable, which should be ready by March 2016, he said. The cable would have a capacity of 6.4 terabits on four fibre-pairs, sufficient to carry a million HD movie streams simultaneously.


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快乐的猴子

1，Southern Cross Cable 一直花钱升级，容量用几十年了，现在流量使用率还不到1/4，而且大部分是澳洲人用。

2，Southern Cross Cable 收费非常底，你$100刀的宽带账单里，它们只占$2刀。

3，纽西兰网络落后的是国内的基础线路速度，国外的流量距离限制就在那里，容量的话其实一个Southern Cross Cable就够了。