Australia to get 2 terabyte per second cable

i dont think even my kids kids will see that headline :)

by then south africa will be finished and more than likely wont have adsl
 
PIPE started life in 2002, largely in response to the cost of transmitting data within Australia through the large telcos' networks. It established Australia's first commercial internet peering exchanges, where ISPs could connect directly to each other, sending data cheaply via PIPE rather than having to pay high rates to send it via the incumbent telcos.

PIPE then expanded its business to provide fibre optic runs to Telstra exchanges, making it financially viable for telcos to install their own ADSL2+ equipment into exchanges. (Previously, ISPs had to pay Telstra's high rates for connectivity to each exchange, making it prohibitively expensive to get data from the ISP to ADSL2+ DSLAMs.) PIPE now covers 50% of east-coast exchanges with its fibre-optic backhaul.
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Wish we had something like that here
 
lol we are not far behind we have a 1.3 tb cable getting built, there getting a 2 tb, for the amount of people there are in Australia that use internet that 2 tb line will be packed

but for us 5% of the people in SA have internet connection in there homes, so this 1.3 tb line will be shared quite nicely, thats if telkom does not get greedy
 
I think the SEACOM cable serves like 8 countries or something. So, 8 other countries get their slice of the 1.2TB pie. This Aussie cable is a direct link to the US...
 
2TB/sec of kangaroo killing video on YouTube or Waltzing Matilda porn :).

The Aussies are either gonna love or hate it :).
 
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