[AusNOG] Vocus Harbour Crossing

[Christopher Pilgrim]

I said the bridge may be shorter to GS. Tunnel will always be faster to the
east side of the city.


On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 12:52 PM, Alex West <alex.west at vocus.com.au> wrote:

> Continuing on.
>
> The tunnel would be a longer path from global switch once you have to
> traverse the CBD to get the the start point.
>
>
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> Sent from my iPhone
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> On 14/06/2012, at 12:45 PM, Alex West <alex.west at vocus.com.au> wrote:
>
> Chris,
>
> The network either side of the Harbour leaves and arrives at the same
> point along the  , however the underwater section heads directly across the
> harbour and doesn't double back to get up onto the bridge.
>
> Also it would be a very weak argument to say that the tunnel was
>
>
> Sent from my iPhone
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> On 14/06/2012, at 12:04 PM, Christopher Pilgrim <chris at pilgrim.net.au>
> wrote:
>
> Measuring the latency across the harbour is hardly relevant.
>
> The lowest latency between the ASX at Gore Hill and major finance
> buildings (say 2 Chifley Sq, Governor Phillip Tower, AMP Building for
> example) will always be through the harbour tunnel, and you could even
> argue that the lowest latency from the ASX to Global Switch is still via
> the bridge by the time you take into account the network either side of the
> actual harbour crossing.
>
> There is some demand for low latency circuits between ASX Gore Hill and
> Chi-X at Equinix SY1, but as Chi-X currently account for only  2-3% of
> trading volume in Australia (at the moment anyway) I'm not sure how much
> demand there will actually be.
>
> That said, good work - can't wait to see the actual specs once it's
> connected up.
>
>
>
>
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> On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 9:57 AM, James Spenceley <james at vocus.com.au>wrote:
>
>> Noggers,
>>
>> As you may or may not be aware, Vocus is running a fibre cable
>> (literally) across Sydney Harbour tomorrow. We are throwing an event at
>> Ripples restaurant at Milson's point which will have a great view of the
>> cable ship and divers as well as being about 20 meters from where the cable
>> comes ashore.
>>
>> We've got 5 spots for Noggers for the lunch, If you'd like to come first
>> in best dressed with an email back to me :-)
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> --
>> James
>>
>> <Vocus_Harbour_Crossing_Invitation_Small.jpeg>
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