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. At least, where we have the new build (and that includes AK CBD). It cost us some more to build the IP infrastructure to accommodate the needs of telephony (and I'm NOT talking VoIP here by the way). But the overall cost went down. Personally I was surprised a bit that we managed to do it so fast, but we have. We've still got lots of 'legacy' stuff (and I do find it ironic that SDH gets relegated to legacy when it was cutting edge not so very long ago. Internet time I guess) but it's cheaper to do all new build based on an IP infrastructure. I recall a presentation from some telco types back at VUW when they were sneering at the reliability of data equipment vs telephone exchanges. Neil James made the comment that if he had a telco budget he could make the data network that reliable in a couple of years. Well, since rather less money was available, it's taken more than a couple of years, but Neil's vision is pretty much fulfilled. -- 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