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Originally posted by GastonJ@Mar 21 2005, 07:14 AM
Another thing I find odd about NZ is the way you guys have limited bandwidth. I had read up that this was a throwback to when the only Internet connection was through the university. At that time everything went through their connection and was charged at how much international bandwdith was used. I find it odd that this has carried on now. As far as I'm aware only NZ and Chile charge in such a way. |
The domestic infrastructure here is at present a very nasty patchwork, Telecom wont make up its mind and stick with one infrastructure vendor, so there's alcatel gear working beside nokia gear working beside NEC gear working beside juniper gear working beside cisco gear... The inconsistencies bring about problems, and our recent spate of issues with DSL suckage were due to misconfiguration of some Juniper ERX's
So I'm hoping fibre to the curb will help bring consistency back up...
However due to depeering from the major IX's, Telecom and Telstra are effectively stubbing the demand for growth of the domestic infrastructure to meet the demands of a blossoming domestic content market. Essentially, instead of other large content providers springing up, we might be stuck with the big two: trademe and stuff for some time, which could result in broadband penetration slowing a bit, ultimately putting the two T's in a position where they've shot themselves in the feet.
I cant wait until WiMax hits our shores, wireless is faster to setup and cheaper to setup than wired solutions. Being good at the black art of RF engineering is what makes or breaks you.