Rethinking submarine fibre cable projects in the South Pacific

[politician]

https://blog.apnic.net/2022/04/20/rethinking-submarine-fibre-cable-projects-south-pacific/

[tiahura]

These submarine fiber projects are pretty awesome. A google consortium ran one from Hawaii to Tahiti a dozen years ago and the overnight the internet went from satellite based misery to 30ms latency nirvana.

[hprotagonist]

Pinoygrams as a loss-leader to get into the underseas cabling business. You heard it here first.

[Ecco → hprotagonist]

What’s a pinoygram?

[digikata → Ecco]

Reference to a plot element in Neal Stephensen's book, Cryptonomicon which included a startup for pinoy-grams enabled by a new submarine fiber-optic cable.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptonomicon

[gizajob → digikata]

You must be great at parties

[digikata → gizajob]

At a party we could now be having a nice conversation about Stephenson and maybe Gibson et al.

[hprotagonist → digikata]

just maybe not “the information superhighway”

[gizajob → Ecco]

It's a joke only for wanderers of Mother Earth, Mother Board, who are old hands at this sort of thing.