At the bottom of a fairly unrelated story[1] I came across: " Meanwhile, Telecom and TelstraClear have signed a peering agreement which formalises arrangements under which the telcos move data traffic across one another's networks. Mr Goulter says the telcos' engineering teams have cooperated to allow peering for some time, but the new commercial agreement is "good for the future of the industry". " John Goulter is a Telecom Spokesman, I can't find anything about the deal on either company's media release sites however. [1] http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,2757590a28,00.html -- Simon J. Lyall. | Very Busy | Mail: simon(a)darkmere.gen.nz "To stay awake all night adds a day to your life" - Stilgar | eMT.
Simon Lyall wrote:
At the bottom of a fairly unrelated story[1] I came across:
" Meanwhile, Telecom and TelstraClear have signed a peering agreement which formalises arrangements under which the telcos move data traffic across one another's networks.
Mr Goulter says the telcos' engineering teams have cooperated to allow peering for some time, but the new commercial agreement is "good for the future of the industry".
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John Goulter is a Telecom Spokesman, I can't find anything about the deal on either company's media release sites however.
Is the story really unrelated? To me it looks like Telecom and TelstraClear see peering as standard telco interconnections. -- Juha
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