You don't. You setup wifi mesh's in major cities and use existing infrastructure to link them together. You don't need much to link giving current limits of 54mb Regards -----Original Message----- From: Tony Wicks [mailto:nzog(a)road.gen.nz] Sent: Sunday, 28 December 2003 10:49 p.m. To: Steve Withers Cc: NZ NOG Subject: RE: [nznog] Commerce Commission - bitstream etc. FUD!
I say this becasue today we spend billions on stuffing Telecom NZ's and TelstraClear's pockets.....and the profit alone on that service would build a kick-ass national network that would meet the infrastructural aims and goals I have in mind.
How on earth would you know what it cost's to build a national network ? Let alone a "kick ass" one. Don't confuse putting up a few wireless nodes or stringing up some fibres on power poles with building a "national network". To do that you need billion dollar investments in equipment and info-structure. You go try and price up digging a trench (and getting approval for it!) from Auckland to Wellington, then come back and tell us how cheap you think your "kick ass" network will be. _______________________________________________ NZNOG mailing list NZNOG(a)list.waikato.ac.nz http://list.waikato.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/nznog