Re: [nznog] Pacific Fibre to Cease Operations - cites not enough investment.

On 2/08/2012, at 2:27 PM, Joel Wirāmu Pauling wrote:

On 2 August 2012 14:20, David Hooton wrote:

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On 02/08/2012, at 12:17 PM, Joel Wirāmu Pauling wrote:

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Yup, BUT load issues aside (lets assume that that is a matter easily solved with infrastructure). My concerns generally are around pinch-points in and out of the City. We have seen Auckland Blacked out due to lines failure in the past; and that risk has only marginally been improved.

That is still infrastructure.

I knew someone would call me on that... yeah - just read it as the reason I am disturbed. So far, we haven't had the investment required in either the Power or the Fibre for whatever econo-political reasons; to solve for it. We have had several blackouts, several fibre cuts, and god knows how many near misses due to either fibre or power pinch in and out of Auckland.

So the track record of 'infrastructure' investment/development on these issues has not been congruous to your proposition.

Given that everything goes through Auckland right now, building such a DC in Auckland isn't going to be any worse. This seems like a silly thing to be debating though, one in somewhere that's less than ideal is better than none, and, we're unlikely to be the sole people involved in this sort of decision. A good DC seems like a great idea. Let's figure out how to get one, then people can snipe about where. -- Nathan Ward