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Re: More undersea cable wars brewing in India
From: Adrian Chadd <adrian () creative net au>
Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2004 13:37:16 +0000
On Thu, Dec 23, 2004, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
On Thu, 23 Dec 2004 13:16:09 +0000, Adrian Chadd <adrian () creative net au> wrote:On Thu, Dec 23, 2004, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:.. and meanwhile, the best part of 32 STM-1s worth of fiber is lying dark ...If they lit /all/ of the fibre, don't you think it'll all be used very very quickly?God knows there's enough demand for it. Only, bandwidth prices are artificially inflated because of this shortage, and this would make prices drop SHARPLY
I know what its like. I'm in /Australia/. Trying to get bandwidth into Australia up until about two years ago was /really damned difficult/. Heck, trying to get bandwidth between cities was sometimes more expensive than bandwidth out of Australia.
What will they do then? Lay more fibre next year? :)FALCON (another FLAG cable) and SEA-ME-WE4 are both coming into India by mid to end 2005, as are a few smaller cables to places like Singapore
But, like all other things, this timeline isn't fixed, hard in stone. What if they miss their timeline? What if there's teething problems? What if one of the existing fibres suddenly decides to not work? Its a crappy position to be in, I completely agree. But I think you should consider how much time, effort and money it takes to lay /new/ cable. Its eas(ier) to just light up a new pair when the demand is there. Capacity planning isn't easy when it takes a lot of said time, effort and money to lay new cable. Adrian -- Adrian Chadd "You don't have a TV? Then what's <adrian () creative net au> all your furniture pointing at?"
Current thread:
- More undersea cable wars brewing in India Suresh Ramasubramanian (Dec 23)
- Re: More undersea cable wars brewing in India Adrian Chadd (Dec 23)
- RE: More undersea cable wars brewing in India Neil J. McRae (Dec 23)
- Re: More undersea cable wars brewing in India Suresh Ramasubramanian (Dec 23)
- Re: More undersea cable wars brewing in India Adrian Chadd (Dec 23)
- Re: More undersea cable wars brewing in India Suresh Ramasubramanian (Dec 23)
- Re: More undersea cable wars brewing in India Adrian Chadd (Dec 23)
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- Re: More undersea cable wars brewing in India Fergie (Paul Ferguson) (Dec 23)
- Re: More undersea cable wars brewing in India Adrian Chadd (Dec 23)
- Re: More undersea cable wars brewing in India Iljitsch van Beijnum (Dec 23)
- Re: More undersea cable wars brewing in India Adrian Chadd (Dec 23)
- Re: More undersea cable wars brewing in India Suresh Ramasubramanian (Dec 23)
- Re: More undersea cable wars brewing in India Adrian Chadd (Dec 23)