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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Not sure Corinthian ever connected to
aarnet directly. They connected to mpx and in fact still connect
to Spectrum since the optus sale (1999) . Perhaps DaveD can
remember what they did before mpx. <br>
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Matt.<br>
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<div dir="ltr">OK - here are some references: <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.rogerclarke.com/II/OzIHist.html">http://www.rogerclarke.com/II/OzIHist.html</a>
and <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.rogerclarke.com/II/OzI04.html">http://www.rogerclarke.com/II/OzI04.html</a>
- the SU link I think you may have been thinking of was
Corinthian... <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://Connect.com.au">Connect.com.au</a>'s nodes in
Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth were co-located
with significant customers. This continued until AAPT invested
in <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://connect.com.au">connect.com.au</a>
at which point we migrated everything over to Cisco 7500's at
the AAPT POPs where we connected into their ATM network using
HSSI (45Mbps?) - AAPT didn't completely acquire <a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://connect.com.au">connect.com.au</a>
until 1998 or 1999.<br>
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<div>I wonder who the other link to SU was then. Perhaps
my memory fail's me. It was over 20 years ago. There was
also a dialup (but dialed up permanently ) connection
to APANA (sydgate) on a 2400 BPS modem which got moved
to a 9600 netcomm shortly there after. It initially was
connected to SU but got moved for affiliate reasons to
mpx.<br>
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Microplex had nothing so grand as a national network at
that stage. It was the microlink to SU back to a cisco
AGS (and later a cisco 3000) which feed two SCO servers
with stallion cards. Desecrate Netcomm modems were soon
replaced with Netcomm rack modems. This was all going
on in the front bedroom of Mark Fawcett's Ryde house. It
was a good year before we moved to StLeonards when we
overfilled capacity to expand the lead in cable of the
house when the DA was full. <br>
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<div>Well I actually connected Connect at UM and I
was still working at the Uni for another year or
more before I jumped ship, and I don't recall
them ever having an SU link (I think this is
where some confusion came from). The national
network was all ISDN Microlink-based initially
and the Sydney node was in Cisco, but it was
UUCP relays initially until they got the OK to
route IP over 'dedicated' connections (ISDN and
'permanent' dialup).<br>
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<div>All of this was well before I joined Connect
in early 1994 and around the time that the
Interconnect (domestic dialup) product was
launched (I'm often incorrectly spoken of as a
founder - there were three active founders and I
was employee number 2).<br>
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1:54 PM, Matt Perkins <span dir="ltr"><<a
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There is some 'discussion' as to
whether Microplex or <a
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href="http://connect.com.au"
target="_blank">connect.com.au</a>
were the first commercial *IP*
providers in Australia (circa
1992/1993) - as distinct from email
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As I remember it when I connected Microplex
Cisco AGS via a Telecom Microlink to a T/A
at 64k to the netblazer at .SU Microplex
connected to port 2. Port 1 was already
allocated and connected to <a
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href="http://connect.com" target="_blank">connect.com</a>.
(well the TA displayed CD) So to my mind <a
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href="http://connect.com" target="_blank">connect.com</a>
was first we were second. However we only
provided shell accounts for the first few
weeks before i wrote the shell scripts on
the SCO box that started slip sessions
allocated IP's etc. So im a bit unsure who
sold the commercial IP accounts first. It
was within weeks of AARNET providing
connections to the first as they called them
then "Affiliates" <br>
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Chris how long after you connected did you
start selling. <br>
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To my mind it was allays <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://connect.com" target="_blank">connect.com</a>
by a nose.<span><font color="#888888"><br>
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Matt.<br>
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Direct 1300
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Networks Ptd. Ltd.<br>
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