I was having a look at the Southern Cross Cables site and i noticed that there are upgrades planned to be done on the cable...

The continued strength of customer support for Southern Cross has allowed the company to adopt a new higher-capacity Dense Wave Division Multiplexing (DWDM) technology that is four times faster than that currently being used by Southern Cross.

find out more about Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing here.

Southern Cross will initially apply the higher capacity DWDM technology only to its third fibre pair, which is scheduled to be equipped early in 2002. This will take total network capacity to 240 Gbit/s.
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Southern Cross has already committed to equipment for the first and second fibre pairs, but will continue to monitor demand so that future decisions can be made on when to upgrade these to the higher capacity DWDM technology - achieving full network capacity of 480 Gbit/s - in order to continue to satisfy market growth.

mm more bandwidth weee
you can read the full article here.

bandwidth is all well and good until some malaysian with a anchor ends it all

shuddup ineff you are only handing more excuses to telstra :(

the malaysians always take the blame for the telstra guy who tripped on the network cable

yeah that is true
and mine seems to be slow to use for the past 2 weeks
this is just getting stupid

oh yeh
its great until telstra cuts it

was noticable last week at work when all the o'seas servers were failing

connection.f***ed.telstra.net
thats where i get routed through i reckon