Rethinking submarine fibre cable projects in the South Pacific
Guest Post: Dreaming of a mesh utopia in the Pacific.
Tag: submarine cable
When volcanoes go bang, submarine cables do … what?
Guest Post: Insights and lessons from Tonga in the last five weeks.
Tonga and fragility of long-haul networks
What is happening to Tonga’s Internet connection?
Unintended consequences of submarine cable deployment on Internet routing
Guest Post: How do you quantify the end-to-end performance changes brought about by a new submarine cable?
How critical are submarine cables to end-users?
Guest Post: A common assumption is that popular resources tend to be hosted locally, and submarine cables are for backend traffic. Is this accurate?
New submarine cable to strengthen Pakistan ICT community
Spanning three continents, the PEACE cable will provide the lowest latency service from Pakistan to Europe.
Strengthening the foundation for PNG’s digital future
Around 250 technical staff from 96 organizations across PNG have benefitted from the technical training project, strengthening local capacity to develop and maintain Internet connectivity.
At the bottom of the sea: a short history of submarine cables
Submarine cable development brings together advanced physics, marine technology and engineering to create truly amazing pieces of networking infrastructure.
Three of the best: Long reads
Here are three of our best thought provoking long reads from 2019 for your holiday break.
Meeting the challenges of a Pacific-wide network
Guest Post: The University of the South Pacific manages a number of challenges in operating, maintaining and upgrading its large and diverse network.