On Thu, 22 Mar 2007, Philip D'Ath wrote:

Telecom has recently been reported in the media as saying it is seriously looking at and now supports the concept of local internet interconnection. Rumours abound of a June/July timetable. Of course for their customers, and TelstraClear's, one would expect they never stopped local interconnection, but this move would re-integrate Telecom with the rest of the internet at a local level.

Ah, yes, but will it be neutral peering? Or will their marketroids lead the charge yet again with the concept of charge-by-the-byte peering - followed, yet again, by an unequivocal middle-finger salute from the wider 'net community? Maybe I'm just overly cynical, but it's a bit hard to swallow that everyone's favourite monopolist telco has suddenly turned over a new leaf on the topic of how it connects to the rest of the country. -- Matthew Poole "Don't use force. Get a bigger hammer."

Philip D'Ath wrote:

Thankfully we have heard that Telecom is reconsidering its approach and we say it is about time. With continued data growth, IP-based voice and video becoming widespread, and an increasing number of networks being developed, it is critical that local data is kept local and the most efficient paths across the network are utilised.

Telecom has recently been reported in the media as saying it is seriously looking at and now supports the concept of local internet interconnection. Rumours abound of a June/July timetable. Of course for their customers, and TelstraClear’s, one would expect they never stopped local interconnection, but this move would re-integrate Telecom with the rest of the internet at a local level.

um. surely, the best way to prove to the telco's that peering locally (I am gathering, you all mean 'for free' as well) is to prove it by creating a mass exodus of customers to the ISP's that DO peer. if this was such a huge issue, then why has this not happened ? if peering is really all that everyone claims it is, then surely, customers would be leaving en-mass to the greener shores of low latency to the rest of There seems to be a lot of crying about the apparent lack of peering, and not much time spent in actually doing something about it. Infact, I seem to recall a while ago, that after I sorted out peering for Asia Online, I offered to assist anyone else in getting peering working with Telecom. I got a resounding 0 responses to this and I guess that is indicative of how much people really want this sorta thing. -- Steve. 2 days to go.