1) Its PA - I wont give out a exact amount but I know of 4 schools in Wellington spending 50-60k PA
2) This will never happen - At least not in Wellington because of the geographical distribution of the families. In Wellington its mot likely
those 200 families cover 30 square km's and have at least 2 big hills in
way. For this reason costs to connect these families would drastically increase.
3)CityLink's network can really only reach 4 maybe 5 schools with its fibre, Of the top of my head in Wellington (I shall include The Hutt, Porirua and All Wellington Suburbs) I can count at least 14 colleges and 23 Primary Schools. For the most part schools are not within range of high speed
http://crc.net.nz/
A website I found very interesting and I viewed every picture they had.
"The project was intially funded by a seeding grant from the Computer
Science Department We have just secured funding of NZ$927,000 over the next
three years from the New Zealand Foundation for Research, Science and
Technology (FRST) "
Barry
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tristram Cheer"
As it stands I'm looking into the possibility of setting up a wireless backbone around the Wellington region using 802.11g gear to link all
school
and community groups into a single network, this would allow schools the option of buying a CityLink connection and using the backbone to deliver it to the school. It's just an idea that's been floating around my head for a while
Regards
Tristram
-----Original Message----- From: Don Gould - BVC [mailto:dig(a)bvc.com.au] Sent: Sunday, 28 December 2003 10:12 p.m. To: nznog(a)list.waikato.ac.nz Subject: RE: [nznog] Commerce Commission - bitstream etc. FUD!
On Sun, 28 Dec 2003 21:38:37 +1300, Tristram Cheer wrote
Most School are already on ADSL already, most in Wellington clock up A LOT (Re: 5 figure's) of traffic so I doubt the amount of business gained would counterbalance the loss of income from schools moving from ADSL to Wifi Maybe I'm missing something, I don't know
You'll know far more about what's going on in NZ schools that I do... I'm still trying to find out more about that at present so please excuse my if I
seem to be talking thru a hole in my head - I'm an ideas guy, I come up with
creative ideas that might or might not work or be pratical.
1. How long are schools going to stay paying 5 figures a month for ADSL connections (or were you talking per annum)?
2. A school with 800 students represents 800 families[1]. Let's do some math, assume 25% get connected (200) at ~$70 per month. That's $14,000 a month - how many schools are paying $14k?
3. How long will it be before the schools in Wellington join CityLink because it's cheaper?
Cheers DiG
[1] Yes I know there will be some brothers and sisters in there but you get my point :) You could also factor in the businesses that those parents also
represent.
-- Don Gould The technology exists to give every home 10mbits per second for $10 per month!
Ask not what your telephone company should do for you... ...but what you can do for your broadband community!
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