At 02:30 p.m. 14/01/2002 +1300, J S Russell wrote:
Local loop unbundling?
The other topics are pretty "pure" technical ones. This topic you suggest has the stench of politics about it. :)
I'm happy to add a technical flavour to it and talk about our experiences with our local loop (ie copper not fiber). This will be on experiences with external cat-5 and lightning, power, wind, earths, and wobbly poles. My own view on this is that the loop shouldn't be unbundled as unbundling only keeps inferior stuff around longer and keeps people in the kbps world instead of the mbps world. It would include how to wire your neighbourhood, power over cat-5, both ieee 802-3af and local variants. So that a wider audience can see what was offered earlier in private mail, CityLink has also offered, + some $$$ in form of sponsorship + attendees + speaker(s) + access to both or either APE or WIX + some equipment for an exhibition LAN etc. including wireless access to the "mobile" community While we'd prefer that the conference was in Wn or Ak I'm sure we can al co-operate and get something going elsewhere. From a few years of experience with DECUS conferences, I'm happy to help out with organisation or volunteer someone from CityLink. My experience is also that its easier getting a good playground going in Wn. AK isn't hard but not as good. We also got much better attendance in WN, but that was because there are lots of Govt Depts etc. An NZNOG conference may attract quite a few from non ISP companies particularly if they can just wander down when the boss isn't around. rich richard.naylor(a)citylink.co.nz - To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog