On Tuesday, February 26, 2002, at 07:58 , Don Stokes wrote:
Rather I'm suggesting that the things that make telecomms hard be eased as much as possible. Digging up the road is expensive for everybody. Last time I looked (which was a while ago), you were talking $100 / metre, at least if you had to dig through the road rather than a nice soft verge, which Wellington hill suburbs are rather short on.
Digging up the roads will be always be hard, so long as you have local councils to deal with, each with their own set of requirements. Hard things take a long time, which is why I am a proponent of "nasty old telecom copper now, fibre later". Getting some choice now would be a good thing, regardless of how architecturally tacky the details are.
OK. Now run video and telephones over it.
Why cripple the IP infrastructure with requirements for legacy services? Leave the voice to the cellular operators and the existing copper pair people, and the video to the satellite and terrestrial broadcast people. Convergence can come later, once a fast, cheap IP infrastructure is reliably available. Joe - To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog