Jetstream (was Re: Phew looks like we were lucky)

From: "Joe Abley" I have no idea what Jetstream has to do with anything :) I am talking about Internet2.

Jetstream is the seed. As you have said, you need edge applications to justify the existance of broadband connectivity. Jetstream introduces businesses to those applications and the productivity gains that are the justification. Unfortunately (with Jetstream) there is a big jump in cost between the entry/introduction level and the next step in the growth path. This kills the growth as the cost becomes "noticable" and these businesses lack the experiance to measure the benefit. So they go back to doing it the old way. Example: A business that started encouraging everyone to email their graphics files to them for printing. Slight problem, under Jetstream it costs the sender 20c/meg and the recipient 20c/meg, thus the cost of delivery for a 30MB file is twelve dollars. So that "application" died, they have gone back to using couriers because it is cheaper to pay a human to drive a car ten kilometers across town than it is to use Jetstream. OK, someone could have redesigned things to save cost but why should they have to, it is the charging model that is broken, so fix that. Broadband will grow at a snails pace in NZ until Telecom starts charging relative to the cost (i.e. cheaper domestic) Cheers BG. - To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog