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  • Submarine cable zones to be protected by law

    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.

  • Asia-US undersea cables to be fixed in a week

    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.

  • Video: Pipe Networks' submarine cable

    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.

  • Photos: Pipe Networks' submarine cable

    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.

  • Regulator to beef up submarine cable protection

    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.

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