At 4:41 PM -0500 27/2/02, Joe Abley wrote:
On Wednesday, February 27, 2002, at 04:11 , Michael Newbery wrote:
I go to Auckland for two days and find the list has exploded with things that I want to talk about. Oh well.
At 9:05 PM -0500 26/2/02, Joe Abley wrote:
On Tuesday, February 26, 2002, at 07:58 , Don Stokes wrote:
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OK. Now run video and telephones over it.
Why cripple the IP infrastructure with requirements for legacy services? Leave the voice to the cellular operators and the existing copper pair people, and the video to the satellite and terrestrial broadcast people.
Convergence can come later, once a fast, cheap IP infrastructure is reliably available.
We (TelstraClear) are running a converged infrastructure now. Because it is cheaper.
You're talking about a converged core, right? Not delivering voice, video and internet to customers over ethernet.
No, I AM talking about delivering voice, video and Internet to customers over ethernet. Right now. If you call Christchurch City Council or people in the WestPacTrust tower in AK (not all of it, just some are our customers), or a numver of other customers, that POTS call runs over enet and has done for some months. In fact, the transport between exchanges up and down the country currently runs on a traditional telco SDH core, but the access is on IP. And it is NOT VoIP. Its a POTS line into a standard telco cabinet that happens to backend over a protected ethernet ring. No ATM. No SDH. It re-emerges back onto a traditional telco switch. We've also got the converged core, but the cool thing was integrating the access plot as well. Now, this is only where we have the new build at the moment, but all the legacy stuff integrates---at least for voice. The challenge is how to deliver high speed IP over existing infrastructure at reasonable price. -- Michael Newbery Technical Specialist TelstraClear Limited Tel: +64-4-939 5102 Mobile: +64-29-939 5102 Fax: +64-4-922 8401 - To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog