[LINK] Internode covers Coorong

[Richard Chirgwin]

Hmm. Reduces the council telco spending. Improves residential services. 
Improves business services. Cheap. Doesn't kill anybody.

Impropriety is surely associated not with ideology but with fact. So 
gwan, kiddie, where's the impropriety?

RC

Deus Ex Machina wrote:
> another example of improper use of government money.
>
> David Boxall [david.boxall at hunterlink.net.au] wrote:
>   
>> There are advantages to a wide (flat) brown land, it seems.
>>
>> <http://www.itnews.com.au/newsstory.aspx?CIaNID=37520&eid=3&edate=20060927>
>> Internode covers Coorong
>> By Lilia Guan, CRN      27 September 2006 11:01 AEST      Telco/ISP 	
>>
>> Internode has blended ADSL2+ broadband with solar-powered microwave 
>> towers to deliver broadband coverage for Coorong District Council in 
>> South Australia.
>>
>> The ISP built a voice and data broadband network that delivers broadband 
>> to around 6000 residents and businesses in the 8800 square kilometre 
>> area south east of Adelaide.
>>
>> In conjunction with the council it built microwave radio towers that 
>> deliver Internode Wireless broadband across the Coorong landscape to 
>> reach peop0le in smaller townships and on farms.
>> advertisement
>>
>>
>>
>> Tim Drew, CEO, Coorong District Council, said the Internode network has 
>> reduced the council?s voice call and data charges by around $30,000 a 
>> year, nearly three times the originally anticipated saving of $11,000 
>> per annum.
>>
>> ?Many people live well away from major towns or settlements, so they 
>> find it hard to access services that are easy for people in town. If 
>> they can get high-speed broadband in their homes, it means they don?t 
>> have to travel 100km to town,? he said.
>>
>> Daryl Knight, national sales manager, Internode said the geography of 
>> the area lent itself to deploying the technology.
>>
>> ?It?s a wide area which helped when putting up the towers. We designed 
>> the network to meet the broadband needs of a low population density in 
>> this large area,? he said.
>>
>> The Coorong Project was funded by federal, state and local government 
>> resources as well as an unspecified cash from Internode.
>>
>> Of the 17 towers, 12 are self-powered through the use of $12,000 power 
>> systems that feature solar arrays, charge controllers and high capacity 
>> batteries.
>>
>> These Solar Wireless Access Node (SWAN) towers - designed by Internode - 
>> have a battery capacity to run for several days without significant 
>> sunlight and are fully remote monitored.
>>
>> Internode MD Simon Hackett (pictured) said ?for this project, we built 
>> our own backhaul channel to Adelaide, giving us end-to-end control over 
>> the costs of our network and the whole network is also independent of 
>> Telstra?.
>>
>> -- 
>> David Boxall                    |  When a distinguished but elderly
>> david.boxall at hunterlink.net.au  |  scientist states that something is
>>                                  |  possible, he is almost certainly
>>                                 |  right. When he states that
>>                                 |  something is impossible, he is
>>                                 |  very probably wrong.
>>                                                   --Arthur C. Clarke
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