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may be that they don't want to lease bandwidth as much on the existing cables. Redundancy and increasing total bandwidth available are other good reasons. Consider what happened to several submarine cables just a few months ago, several breaks in just a few days.
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Physical Compression  Dr_Zinj | 04/09/08
Treated?  jhurst747 | 04/09/08
That's the expensive way...  JohnMcGrew@... | 04/09/08
RE: (Photos: Australia's 5,500-mile Internet connection)  chris752 | 04/09/08
RE: (Photos: Australia's 5,500-mile Internet connection)  vulcan96 | 04/09/08
RE: (Photos: Australia's 5,500-mile Internet connection)  vulcan96 | 04/09/08
They are called "Notice to Mariners"  Michael P. | 04/09/08
What does Australia use now? Satellite?  meryllogue@... | 04/09/08
They use other existing cables...  UncleBubba | 04/09/08
RE: (Photos: Australia's 5,500-mile Internet connection)  maxtheitpro | 04/09/08
RE: (Photos: Australia's 5,500-mile Internet connection)  stewpeake | 04/09/08
Australia and . . . . Hawaii??  CobraA1 | 04/09/08
AZ to Hawaii just part of global network  K1FDH | 04/11/08
Here's the link to Int'l. submarine cables  K1FDH | 04/11/08
RE: (Photos: Australia's 5,500-mile Internet connection)  paul351 | 04/09/08
another reason  seanferd | 04/09/08
RE: (Photos: Australia's 5,500-mile Internet connection)  blackjack861@... | 04/09/08
Pure science vs. entertainment etc.  boomchuck1 | 04/10/08
Toil and Sacrifice  Methushelah | 04/10/08
What microscope are we supposed to use  mhenriday | 04/11/08
Relevance  Methushelah | 04/24/08
Idiot  bigjohnt@... | 04/12/08
RE: (Photos: Australia's 5,500-mile Internet connection)  leanne_martinau | 04/10/08
Powering the amplifiers?  bbbaldie_z | 04/10/08
Probably still electric?  Kev Baylis | 04/10/08
RTFM  Kev Baylis | 04/10/08
High voltage DC still used  K1FDH | 04/11/08
Has anyone seen any video posted?  clare_smith@... | 04/10/08
Latency  brittonv | 04/10/08
Modern Fiber cables use solid state amps  K1FDH | 04/11/08
RE: (Photos: Australia's 5,500-mile Internet connection)  Kapukini | 04/14/08
RE: (Photos: Australia's 5,500-mile Internet connection)  NZJester | 04/16/08
WIRED covered this many years ago:  gbdrbob | 07/15/08

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