[LINK] Govt broadband plans blurred

[Michael Still]

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On Thu, 16 Aug 2001, felipe rodriquez wrote:

> Hi,
>
> > 3. Govt broadband plans blurred
> > The NSW government has announced a vague plan to pipe broadband
> > capacity to universities throughout Sydney within a very tight
> > timeframe -- to be completed by the end of the year.
> > http://cgi.zdnet.com/slink?128115
>
> What Australia needs is something like this
> http://www.gigaport.nl/en/network/en_backbone.html
> a gigabit network linking the universities together.
>
> But then... a gigabit network is not much use when universities end up
> paying Telstra by the megabyte for traffic.

AARNET, the network run for the Australian universities buys bandwidth of
Optus, and has for some time. They have a gigabit project underway, have a
look at http://www.aarnet.edu.au/news/pnwgigapop.html (admittedly not at
1gbit yet).

Cheers,
Mikal

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Michael Still (mikal@stillhq.com)
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