-----Original Message----- From: Daniel Lawson [mailto:daniel(a)wand.net.nz] Sent: Thursday, 23 September 2004 9:41 a.m. To: jon.brewer(a)worldnet.att.net; nznog(a)list.waikato.ac.nz Subject: Re: [nznog] nznog research group for NGI? [...] The NZ Advanced Network is not about reading webpages. It's not about downloading mp3s or using Kazaa. It's about shipping multi-gigabyte volumes of data between research organisations. It's about developing the next generation of network apps that will rely on this capacity of transit.

As for 15 c/MB charges at Victoria, we face similar charges at Waikato. It's one of the reasons we (as a network research group) want this network - not because we care overly about paying to read Slashdot every morning, but because 15 or 10 even 1 c/MB is far too much when you want to send 600 GB of network traces to Auckland. And it'll take too long across a 10Mbit TC ethernet connection.

You know, talking about what specific users plan to do with a research network might actually be operational content, and so on topic for this list. - Donald Neal Donald Neal |World Domination is Technical Specialist |proceeding according to Operations Engineering |plan. - Andrew Tridgell Integration & Services Division +----------------------- Alcatel NZ Ltd - Telecom's network operations manager ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "This communication, including any attachments, is confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, you should not read it - please contact me immediately, destroy it, and do not copy or use any part of this communication or disclose anything about it. Thank you. Please note that this communication does not designate an information system for the purposes of the Electronic Transactions Act 2002." ------------------------------------------------------------------------------