[AusNOG] Solomon Islands loses landing rights for a cable in Sydney

[Bevan Slattery]

For those that like a bit of cable history (I do).  I've also got some of
the original minutes...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Red_Line

On 28 July 2017 at 10:56, John Edwards <jaedwards at gmail.com> wrote:

> Solomon Islands is part of the Commonwealth, like Australia. Pacific
> islands have historically been strategic locations.
>
> Military have always been keen on having their comms run through
> controlled territories.
>
> WW1 telegraphs to Australia went London => Capetown => Cocos Islands =>
> Freemantle => Adelaide  => Sydney so that they did not have to traverse an
> enemy controlled land. That's right, there was a submarine landing station
> at Grange near Adelaide, then the Sydney/Melbourne path was terrestrial.
>
> You can imagine how the risk analysis starts to stack up for defence
> advisors if there's an outside chance they might have a future issue with
> the comms vendor's major investor.
>
> John
>
>
>
> On 27 July 2017 at 15:06, Mark Newton <newton at atdot.dotat.org> wrote:
>
>> A submarine cable connecting Sydney to the Solomon Islands is being
>> refused a landing permit in Sydney because it’s being built by Huawei.
>>
>> http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/austra
>> lia-refuses-to-connect-to-undersea-cable-built-by-chines
>> e-company-20170726-gxj9bf.html
>>
>> So, uh, don’t do that then, hey?
>>
>>   - mark
>>
>>
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