On Sun, 28 Dec 2003, Jonathan Dean wrote:
I thought this was what the Universities were planning on doing with Internet2 - that is leasing some pre-existing national fibre - no doubt from Telecom or Clear?
I've haven't seen many updates on this, although there is going to be something in the area by Roger De Salis at NZNOG04 , have a look at his www.area.net.nz site which appears to be the backbone in question. Personally I've always found it a shame that the Universities (apart from vuw, I think) and Government are the main large sites that DON'T peer across APE or WIX. I expect that in 2-5 years time the rest of the country will wake up to the fact that everybody in "rich" countries overseas and 5% of NZ (Central cite Auckland , Wellington and Wired Country type areas) has multi-megabyte Internet with cheap VOIP as an option which they are still paying $100 per month ( $40 pone + $30 ADSL + $30 ISP) for 128 or 256k and demand the govt do something. At which point the Govt will do a 12 month study and then allocate $500 million to Telecom to deliver some [buzzword] DSL product to another 5% of the population the Govt likes that week. or perhaps somewhere like Invercargill will wire up every street to 100Mb/s and every techie in the country will move there :) -- Simon J. Lyall | Very Busy | Web: http://www.darkmere.gen.nz/ "To stay awake all night adds a day to your life" - Stilgar | eMT. "For a brief shining moment one could dream of a world of human beings working together and exchanging ideas. But for the most part, the Internet has been reduced to an alternate way to watch CNN. " - Sean Levin