At 07:58 p.m. 27/12/2003 +1300, Jonathan Dean wrote:
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I am convinced the major impediment for a grassroot non-profit community network (i.e. Citylink et al) is not the lack of last-mile technology but rather it is the lack of an independent national and international data backbone.
An interesting view. I'll risk further over exposure and comment based on our experience. We learned from our telco friends that phone calls are 5% international 15% national 80% local We normally draw it as a pryamid. The Internet as traditionally used in NZ is also a pryamid 80% international - the .com mentality 15% national 5% local We find that when decent high speed networking is available (and certain industries are present) that our traffic is more like the phone model and teh Int links are less important. then your network truely becomes an Inter-net, when businesses start doing real business electronically and shifting real electronic products. How often do you send a 10.5GByte file overseas ? Or 800MByte files ? They fly between users of CityLink all day. (for newspaper editions) rich