[AusNOG] NBNco Website

[Brad Gould]

Its a big meh isnt it?

NBNCo is a wholesale provider, and their customers (i.e. "us") will 
provide service to our customers.. "the public".

Not all Service Providers will supply "the internets".  Some will offer 
VPN services, telephony, IPTV, e-medicine and electronic power meters, 
so they are not "ISP's".

Makes sense to me.

Brad




On 21/06/2010 11:35, Karl Kloppenborg wrote:
> Hey Noggers,
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> Hopefully your all having a charming monday morning (those shaky coffee
> hands grasping to your soul trapped in a mug ;D )
>
> So I was reading the NBNco website (http://www.nbnco.com.au) oh and how
> it does look rather like a template website...
> After going through some pages I can't help but keep thinking that NBN
> is demoting us as ISP's and relabelling us as RSP's (Retail service
> providers)
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> Does anyone else see it this way?
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> http://www.nbnco.com.au/our-services/competition
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> But the thing that has me stumped is that I have never really heard this
> term before?
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> You go to Mr (average) joe down the street and ask him "Do you know what
> an ISP is?"
> He probably will answer it with something along these lines: "yeah mate,
> they provide internet to me, errm bigpond"
>
> Yet as a network engineer, I have yet to have actually used the term
> "RSP" (maybe I am just young and blonde?)
> But I am wondering about this whole Retail Service Provider thing? it
> makes me feel like we are a clothing shop, it makes me feel that the ISP
> community to the Government are what regional ISPs are to the big boy
> ISPs like telstra / optus / Internode etc etc.
>
> Your thoughts please.
>
> Cheers,
> Karl Kloppenborg.
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Brad Gould, Network Engineer
Internode
PO Box 284, Rundle Mall 5000
Level 5, 162 Grenfell Street, Adelaide 5000
P: 08 8228 2999  F: 08 8235 6999
bradley at internode.com.au; http://www.internode.on.net/