I think you are missing the point, running network from Auckland to Wellington is not going to get you peering access to Telecom / TelstraClear customers. Also the idea of a mass de-peering of all the independent ISP's is a bit naive, its sort of like a geek religious thing. The "customers" really don't care who has a monopoly in what, they just care that the service works. I.e., "it works when I use my Xtra account, but not my Maxnet one , so Maxnet must be broken". Also, how long do you think non-telco connected large content suppliers would hang around when their traffic us used to try and force the telco's to change. I'm not saying give up and take it, I suggest that media pressure is the way to get to telco's. -----Original Message----- From: Steve Withers [mailto:swithers(a)mmp.org.nz] Sent: Wednesday, 26 May 2004 9:52 a.m. To: nznog Subject: Re: [nznog] Alternative to Running Cable down SH1 On Wed, 2004-05-26 at 21:14, Tikiri Wickramasingha wrote:
NASA Helios - remotely piloted, solar powered, extreme high altitude aircraft capable of carying a payload simillar to a small satelite. Uses Fuel Cells to store power generated by solar panels. It is designed to stay in the air forever. Wing Span approximately the size of a B-52 Bomber. Cost if I rememebr right was a couple million dollars. But that is a fraction of what running fibre all the way down SH1 would cost.
No doubt it is patented..... I was interested to see - when working on a homework project with my daughter - that the Wright Brothers had a patent on their wing design....which truly was a unique innovation created by them -and that Americans especially took no notice of it and copied it shamelessly - paying no royalties. So all we need to do is take the Helios idea and design our own. ...Now where did I leave that wind tunnel? _______________________________________________ NZNOG mailing list NZNOG(a)list.waikato.ac.nz http://list.waikato.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/nznog