At 09:46 p.m. 27/12/2003 +1300, Jonathan Dean wrote:
On Sat, 27 Dec 2003 21:30, Don Gould - BVC wrote:
On Sat, 27 Dec 2003 20:58:43 +1300, Jonathan Dean wrote
I believe that if high speed internet is available, the national traffic will be the most important.
Ok, why?
National traffic is important because both now and in the future, important and popular content will be hosted in Auckland and not Bluff. National traffic may not have the highest bandwidth consumption traffic compared to Aucklands and Wellington's local traffic - but it is important that everyone, irrespective of location gets the same access to the same data at the same speed - or we will end up with our own local 'digital divide'. Should a Wellington child have a better education because their school has access to a faster internet connection than a Bluff child.
that fails to take in what we announced recently - the building of IXs in 4 regional cities, DN, CHC, PNN and HAM. When we did the LOTR streams we used servers in both IXs (WIX and APE). IXs are a core part of the network. The data will reside where it makes sense, ie keep local contnent local, where its needed and where the cheap bandwidth (free) is. The idea of the IXs is to encourage construction of many local high speed networks and encourage peering at those IXs. Thats why we did LOTR - as well as having fun. we shifted around 12TBytes for LOTR in 8 hours. Don't try that on todays national network. rich