<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">SMW3 now goes down every year around December and comes back up the week before PTC. Uncanny actually...<div><br><div id="AppleMailSignature">[b]</div><div><br>On 17 Dec 2017, at 6:24 pm, Jonathan Brewer <<a href="mailto:jon.brewer@gmail.com">jon.brewer@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 18 December 2017 at 17:19, Brad Peczka <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:brad@bradpeczka.com" target="_blank">brad@bradpeczka.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p>Best routing you'll get at the moment is SEA-ME-WE 3 (when it's up, hah) to Singapore, overland to Malaysia, and then via SAFE to South Africa.</p></div></blockquote><div>SEA-ME-WE 3 also lands in Penang eh? Shouldn't be any reason to get off in Singapore and go overland.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:12pt;color:#000000;background-color:#ffffff;font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><p>
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<p>You'll need to be choosy about your provider though - given Telstra Global have an interest in both cables, they might be a good first start.</p>
<p>There was talk of a consortium called the Australia West Express putting in a cable between Perth and Djibouti via Diego Garcia, who would be the best bet for a low latency Africa link, but they've gone very quiet of late...</p></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div></div>
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