[AusNOG] Au > South Africa Customer Link

[Bevan Slattery]

SMW3 now goes down every year around December and comes back up the week before PTC.  Uncanny actually...

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> On 17 Dec 2017, at 6:24 pm, Jonathan Brewer <jon.brewer at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On 18 December 2017 at 17:19, Brad Peczka <brad at bradpeczka.com> wrote:
>> 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.
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> SEA-ME-WE 3 also lands in Penang eh? Shouldn't be any reason to get off in Singapore and go overland.
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>> 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.
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>> 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...
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