At 02:47 p.m. 25/05/2004 +1200, Brian Gibbons wrote:
From: "Drew Broadley"
We could all possibly grab every redundant 10mbit hub in NZ and connect them down SH1 through the north island and call it CountryLink ?
OK, CityLink now runs CountryLink, and every NZ ISP is connected via a single peering exchange.
<humour> Actually we do this already, just not the length of SH1. Our pole top NIDs are in fact 100mbps switches powered over cat-5. The powering is arranged so that you can daisy chain them every 100m as long as the power holds out. The record so far is 300m down Lambton Quay (several Cafenet nodes). Of course if you get power injected at any mid point it means you can go a bit further. The gigE NID is almost ready, just waiting on punch down boards to arrive. So if someone is happy to pay, you could have a gigE link along SH1. And being a thoughtful kind sort, I'm happy to connect up homes as we go past. The CPE box adds power to the NIDs in the area so selling connex along the way is a win-win. So if MoRst or someone wants to do some real good, pass us a few $Ks for a truckload of gigE switches, and we're on our way........ </humour> rich