On 17-Nov-2005, at 22:20, wrote:

We have an office in MT Wellington Auckland and we require a 256 or preferably a 512Mb Uplink Internet Line.

Can anyone suggest, or does anyone know who might be able to provide such a service ?

If you really want an STM-16 (622Mbit/s) service delivered to an office in Auckland, with corresponding transit capacity out on Southern Cross, you are probably going to find that the choice is limited to those who are able to provide the terrestrial loop on their own fibre; last time I looked this meant TCL or TCNZ. I'm sure either of them would fall over themselves to sell you capacity. If your office is on-net for other metro fibre companies, you may also find you can get service from the likes of UUNT or Asia Netcom (worth asking, anyway). Expect a lead time measured in months. If you actually want to be able to transfer a file out from your Auckland office to somewhere else on the network at 512 kbyte/s, then what you want is probably a metro ethernet service with some transit tacked on the back-end. TCL and TCNZ both sell products that will likely suit you. If what you meant to ask for was a 256kbit/s or 512kbit/s uplink, then more or less any ISP in the country can probably help you out with frame-relay, metro ethernet or DSL, depending on exactly where your office is. Note that if your application involves transferring data within New Zealand, you should make sure you ask and get straightforward answers from your ISPs about whether data transfers to other ISPs you need to reach will happen within New Zealand, or whether due to politico- economic machinations the traffic will actually be carried via California or Sydney. If you only care about shifting data outside the country, then this will be less of an issue (but I'd still ask the question, just for fun.) [This is the part where everybody else can point and laugh at how outdated and inaccurate my knowledge of internet services in Auckland has become. And yes, it's snowing here, today, before anybody asks.] Joe