Protection zones will be established for the security of submarine telecommunication cables of national importance, and are likely to be declared in areas around Sydney and Perth.
The two impaired undersea cables, which impacted Telstra customers and slowed Internet traffic from Asia to the US to a crawl last Thursday, are expected to be fully repaired next week.
ZDNet.com.au took a tour through the landing station for Pipe Networks' Sydney to Guam cable, slipping in before the planned lock down in two weeks, when the first customer moves in to its datacentre.
Pipe Network's Sydney to Guam fibre-optic cable, which is due to go online June next year, makes its way up out of the sea to this landing station in Cromer, where the data from the undersea cable is transferred to terrestrial cables.
The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) has proposed a new protection regime that will restrict and prohibit certain maritime activities up to 40 nautical miles off the Sydney beaches where some of Australia's most important submarine cables make landfall.
ZDNet.com.au takes you through a tour of Pipe Networks' new landing station for its submarine station.
iiNet CTO Greg Bader explains the effect that companies such as Pipe Networks, which runs a 1.92Tbps submarine cable from Sydney to Guam and owns numerous metro-based dark fibre links, are having on data prices.
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