[LINK] NBN glitch? NOT

[Jan Whitaker]

The press will definitely have to come to terms with the various 
components involved in a communications link. This one is an OMG 
moment for a few reasons:

NBN switch-on suffers tech glitch
http://www.theage.com.au/it-pro/government-it/nbn-switchon-suffers-tech-glitch-20130505-2j0x8.html

NBN Co spokeswoman Rhonda Griffin said the fault was to do with a 
glitch in the audio-visual software.

"The connection was restored in seconds," she said.

Aside from the drop out, the video conference's audio quality wasn't 
spectacular and there was about a three-second delay - but that 
didn't appear to wipe the smiles off of the children reading along 
with Mr Griffiths. The video itself was crystal clear and you could 
make out the book's front cover that Mr Griffiths was reading.
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1. video conference equipment does have software and if the handshake 
isn't properly made, it can drop out. The article doesn't say what 
system they were using.
2. 3 second delay? Are you kidding me? On a fibre connection????? 
That is just crazy time! We didn't have those sorts of delays on the 
ISBN network. My guess: the people doing the connection don't have 
the technical know-how for the equipment they attached to the system.

I hope maybe someone on link can shed some light on this. I worked 
with a range of video conf equipment for a number of years and a 3sec 
delay didn't even happen on the WORST equipment back in the 1990s. 
What is going on here??

Jan


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