[LINK] Resilient Broadband Network needed for Australia

[Marghanita da Cruz]

Richard Chirgwin wrote:
> Glen Turner wrote:
>> Tom Worthington wrote:
>>
>>> It is likely that consumers and businesses will replace their wired 
>>> phone services with VOIP over this new network. Most VOIP services 
>>> are currently not designed for emergency communications, nor to 
>>> operate during a mains power failure. The RFP asks about provision of 
>>> battery backup of the equipment and also mentions emergency calls, 
>>> but this is priority 16 out of 18.
>>
>> Batteries in CPE are two-edged. You'd need to run one of those
>> distasteful exercises estimating deaths from disaster against
>> deaths from additional house fires.
>>
>> VoIP resilience is currently problematic. There's insufficient
>> redundancy of call routing, insufficient peering between
>> ISPs, and insufficient connectivity into the PSTN and mobile
>> networks.  The situation needs a technical directive from ACMA,
>> but Telstra and Optus won't be happy as they'll lose PSTN
>> revenue as a result.
> Nobody would be happy. Issue a technical directive, for example, 
> insisting that a VoIP provider maintains multiple PSTN interconnect 
> gateways, and I would guess a lot of small providers would resist.
> 

Wouldn't bandwith usage go up and the infrastructure costs come down for the telcos?

If we predict that everything is going to go IP eventually - then what 
regulation is needed. Bearing in mind the risk and decisions are now borne by 
the industry - otherwise we are likely to end up with the Digital TV mess.

Marghanita
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