-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 27 Dec 2003 20:25, you wrote:
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
I believe that if high speed internet is available, the national traffic will be the most important. A major factor why 80% of calls are local is that 80% of calls are free. Of course most people don't send 10.5GB files overseas - because on DSL they would be bankrupted. Do Citylink users have the ability to send 10.5GB offshore if they want too - without paying international tariffs? Ultimately, I just want all the schools in New Zealand to be able to actually communicate with each other using high speed networking. It seems to me that government will ensure that every school has access to high speed internet (DSL etc.) but none of them will ever be able to afford to use it. If we look at the US internet pyramid it is probably 80% national 15% local 5% international . -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/7Tu4e/+/JCBbkYgRArn5AJ9iTIUSIx1nLTXbnxecTeTx4/DNGgCfdUVn haUOyPLmkk4S5hZEHdj/Hyg= =aFXM -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----