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.
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At Pipe Networks' landing station tour last week, the company showed ZDNet.com.au how to fuse two pieces of fibre cable together.
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