Joerg Micheel
Cheers everyone,
this is a request for help in the interest of research / community.
For the past four years the WAND network research group at the University of Waikato has been hosting the only skitter system in the South Pacific rim.
http://www.caida.org/tools/measurement/skitter/
The system measures and displays a number of important network properties on a global scale and tracks changes on short, medium and long time scales.
Waikato has been the beacon on the map, making sure NZ shows up on the radar screen of the Internet (research) community. The problem in running a skitter system is with the amount of traffic generated, it can easily exceed 1 GByte per day, and with traffic charging in place, this adds up to something like NZ$50,000 per annum for us. We have been coping with a mix of external and internal funding, but those sources have finally dried out. The sad result is that we had to shut down the system last week. No backup solutions so far.
This note to you to explore if any of you have an idea on alternative placements, preferably with no volume charging in place at all, or, with a nominal fee. There is little chance we can keep operating a machine here in NZ if the amount of funding required is going to be substancial.
Surely this would be a great PR opportunity for Telecom or Telstra? Here's a chance for either (or both) to show their concrete support for network research in NZ in particular and what a nice, warm and fuzzy public-spirited organisation theirs is. -- Juha - To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog