[plug] Free WAIX traffic for WA Swiftel users

[Chris Caston]

So what options do we have?

Piggy-back on the public utilities
Lease a dedicated line
install several line-of-sight IR repeaters across the desert
Lease a sat link


What's interesting is that people are now putting in SIP IP phones to
escape phone company charges. 

But the next step up from that is avoiding major internet backbones to
lose the bandwidth change. Still that's not really an issue with speex
codecs I guess.


On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 22:03, Craig Ringer wrote:
> > The politics around WAIX are bad enough, can you imagine the Big Three's 
> > collective opinion of that idea? PIPE must get them tossing and turning 
> > of an evening too.
> > 
> > In short, it's a great idea but will require special people and 
> > significant investment if it's ever to happen.
> 
> <rampant-baseless-speculation>
> 
> I suspect the best chance of this may be via the utilities, who are 
> moving into telecommunications. If anybody has an incentive to link the 
> IXes, it'd be them - provide a superior backbone service, and use the 
> IXes as an existing peering point rather than having to make peering 
> arrangements separately with ISPs.
> 
> Whether it'll ever happen is another thing entirely, of course. They'll 
> want to be able to move data without going over the current _expensive_ 
> backbone, though, so it's likely that the state utilities will begin 
> linking together to bypass the current backbone sooner or later anyway. 
> Once they've got that, is there any reason /not/ to hook it into the IXes?
> 
> Whether you'd get /free/ traffic between them is a big question. I'd 
> expect not, but it's quite possble that it could be affordable to the 
> point where your ISP could offer you a $10/month fee hike for "free" 
> inter-IX traffic.
> 
> </rampant-baseless-speculation>
> 
> A few interesting things to read:
> 
> http://www.budde.com.au/TOC/TOC2685.html
> ( must pay for full article, but even the summary is telling)
> 
> http://www.brightonline.com.au/
> (webmaster is crap: install flash first, or get a 404:)
> 
> http://whirlpool.net.au/article.cfm/842
> 
> http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2002/05/10/1021002394645.html
> 
> Craig Ringer
> 
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