I believe that there is and will be plenty of capacity in and around NZ - it is getting out of NZ that is the issue. -----Original Message----- From: nznog-bounces(a)list.waikato.ac.nz [mailto:nznog-bounces(a)list.waikato.ac.nz] On Behalf Of Donald Neal Sent: Friday, 1 May 2009 01:24 To: nznog Subject: Re: [nznog] The Internet is in the news! There may turn out to be real capacity issues in our future. For example, if regional fibre operating companies lay lots of government-subsidised fibre in urban(ish) areas but no corresponding change occurs in the way we do backhaul. Not a problem for certain forms of traffic and certain business models (e.g. from distributed video servers) but possibly bad news for anything like the Internet in its historic end-to-end form. I seem to recall TelstraClear's rollout of 40Gbps (SDH?) and indeed 10Gbps (ethernet?) interfaces being news earlier this week. ( http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/netw/D22D36B334FCD64FCC2575A4006CF65 F ) And who warned you to flee the crunch that is to come? The kingdom of IPv6 is at hand! - Donald Neal -- Donald Neal | "I have never seen the film. But by all Research Officer | accounts it was terrible. However, I WAND | have seen the house that it built, and The University of Waikato | it is terrific." - Michael Caine _______________________________________________ NZNOG mailing list NZNOG(a)list.waikato.ac.nz http://list.waikato.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/nznog