Spare ship found to fix broken submarine cable slowing Oz internet Alcatel Submarine Networks has dispatched the cable ship Lodbrog to service the damaged PPC-1 cable that's currently the source of a bandwidth crimp for Australia. The Lodbrog is needed because the ship usually brought in for Australian cables, the Ile de Re, was already booked to repair the Basslink power-and-comms conduit …
Having talked to one of the PNG telecoms guys last week at APRICOT in Auckland and showed him the news, he was very happy. They are currently struggling using satellite for the most part, which is rather expensive, has an increase in latency and a substantial reduction in capacity. When the news came out that the Basslink cable was out for a decent amount of time, he was not best pleased.
"...
Under the Sea,
No little signals are coming to me
Under the Sea,
Under the Sea,
Something has surely gone wrong,
And it’s broke, broke, broke;
What is the cause of it does not transpire,
But something has broken the telegraph wire
With a stroke, stroke, stroke,
Or else they've been pulling too strong."
James Clerk Maxwell, The Song of the Atlantic Telegraph Company, 1857.
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