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Re: The Dangers of Caribbean Data Havens
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On Mon, 4 Sep 1995, [email protected] (Timothy C. May) wrote:
> From Bruce Sterling in "Islands in the Net" to various reports of data
> havens and Internet services being set up by actual people, there has been
> much speculation about using Caribbean islands for data havens.
> But the infrastructure has been lacking. Low-bandwidth inter-island links.
> And now yet another huge hurricane is bearing down on the Lesser Antilles,
> heading directly for Puerto Rico and Hispaniola (Haiti and Dominican
> Republic).
> "Outages" lasting days or weeks after these islands get torn up every few
> years will not go too well with international commerce.
> Some fixes may help:
> * higher-bandwidth connections, e.g., undersea fiber.
I don't have the citation handy, but I recall reading that Cable &
Wireless has plans to link much of the region via undersea fiber over
the next few years. I think it will be a simple North-South line --
Virgin Islands to Trinidad and Tobago or something like that, bypassing
the Caymans, etc. The cost of the project is outweighed by the gains
of eliminating these recurring weather-related outages.
In fact, someone (Duncan?) may have posted the press release here over
a year ago.
Alan Westrope <[email protected]>
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