Condition 10: All organisations connecting to the New Zealand Advanced Network will maintain a link to the commodity Internet.
I conclude that the Advanced Network isn't going to do a damn thing to alleviate the situation that NZ Universities are currently faced with in regards to the Internet.
You're exactly right. You know why? Because it's not *trying* to alleviate these issues. The NZ Advanced Network is not about reading webpages. It's not about downloading mp3s or using Kazaa. It's about shipping multi-gigabyte volumes of data between research organisations. It's about developing the next generation of network apps that will rely on this capacity of transit. As for 15 c/MB charges at Victoria, we face similar charges at Waikato. It's one of the reasons we (as a network research group) want this network - not because we care overly about paying to read Slashdot every morning, but because 15 or 10 even 1 c/MB is far too much when you want to send 600 GB of network traces to Auckland. And it'll take too long across a 10Mbit TC ethernet connection. -- Daniel Lawson WAND Group, Computer Science Department University of Waikato email: daniel(a)wand.net.nz phone: +64 7 838 4136