"Russell Street"
28/July/1999 08:31pm >>> I don't know if this was sent to a lot of people or not, but am forwarding it to here because I don't have more than a rough idea about the answer.
Russell
I get questions like this from time to time. Requests for historical information I refer to http://www.waikato.ac.nz/cache/www5/ and http://www.auckland.ac.nz/net/Accounting/nze.html . As to the current state of New Zealand's IP backbone I tell people there isn't one, though a number of corporates, including ISP's, operate their own medium- and long-distance links using point-to-point services provided by telcos.
If anyone has an improvement on that answer, I'd be keen to hear about it.
- Donald Neal
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On Wed, Jul 28, 1999 at 12:49:08AM +1200, Donald Neal wrote:
I get questions like this from time to time. Requests for historical information I refer to http://www.waikato.ac.nz/cache/www5/ and http://www.auckland.ac.nz/net/Accounting/nze.html . As to the current state of New Zealand's IP backbone I tell people there isn't one, though a number of corporates, including ISP's, operate their own medium- and long-distance links using point-to-point services provided by telcos.
If anyone has an improvement on that answer, I'd be keen to hear about it.
How about "The New Zealand Internet Backbone consists of multiple interconnected STM-16 (2.5Gbit/s) SDH rings operated by CLEAR Communications Ltd over their fibre-optic network, to which other providers like Telecom NZ connect their legacy copper networks at strategic points" :) Joe --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog
On Thu, Jul 29, 1999 at 09:20:01AM +1200, Joe Abley wrote:
How about "The New Zealand Internet Backbone consists of multiple interconnected STM-16 (2.5Gbit/s) SDH rings operated by CLEAR Communications Ltd over their fibre-optic network, to which other providers like Telecom NZ connect their legacy copper networks at strategic points"
:)
Pretty close - but how about ``The New Zealand Internet Backbone consists of a series of fibre-optic rings strung aroung the trolley bus lines of Wellington city (Also rumoured to be the center of the Universe). There may also be some other providers linking networks to this at certain points.'' ahhh that sits much better I feel. Maybe this person should change their research topic to ``Egotistical views of the Internet structure in a small island nation'' =) Now that would make a good read. Dean -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Dean Pemberton - dp(a)lucent.com Escalation Engineer with the Company Formally Known As Ascend Lucent Technologies - Lvl 38, 55 Collins St, Melbourne 3000, Australia ----------------------------------------------------------------------- --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog
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Dean Pemberton
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Donald Neal
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Joe Abley