[LINK] Resilient Broadband Network needed for Australia

[Richard Chirgwin]

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>> 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.
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> Wouldn't bandwith usage go up and the infrastructure costs come down 
> for the telcos?
Well ... a VoIP session doesn't use much bandwidth; it just moves the 
usage from one network to another... Yes, the infrastructure costs are 
lower in the core, but an access link is an access link.
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> 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.
Certainly the question "what regulation is needed?" is exercising the 
minds of ACMA and the Communications Alliance. And on the upgrade-to-IP 
in telco networks, that risk is already being borne by the industry; for 
example, the Telstra transformation is about building an IP core 
network. Or the BT 21C project in the UK.

RC
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> Marghanita