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<div id="smartTemplate4-template">As much as I like the all ideas
that pop up now and then to "fix" NBN, they can't use them -- NBN
was designed by lawyers for politicians, so you can't have
innovation or risk at any layer.<br>
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<div style="background-color: #DDDDDD; font-size:10pt"><b>From:</b>
<a title="<a>markzzzsmith@yahoo.com.au</a>"
href="mailto:%3Ca%3Emarkzzzsmith@yahoo.com.au%3C/a%3E">Mark
Zzz Smith</a><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Saturday, November 29, 2014 11:00AM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a title="<a>johnslindsay@mac.com</a>,
<a>paul@oxygennetworks.com.au</a>"
href="mailto:%3Ca%3Ejohnslindsay@mac.com%3C/a%3E,%20%3Ca%3Epaul@oxygennetworks.com.au%3C/a%3E">John
Lindsay, Paul Julian</a><br>
<b>Cc:</b> <a title="<a>ausnog@ausnog.net</a>"
href="mailto:%3Ca%3Eausnog@ausnog.net%3C/a%3E">Ausnog@ausnog.net</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [AusNOG] NBNCo Tails to Plane Seats?</div>
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<pre wrap="">I think that most people who advocate satellites don't have an appreciation as to how much impact latency has on end-user experience. I think satellite should only be the absolute last resort once every other terrestrial and therefore much low latency option has been considered and isn't possible.
In particular, I'd like to see evaluation of alternative technologies for rural use like IEEE 802.22 which uses TV "white spaces" (unused channel frequencies) that can apparently support ranges of up to 100Kms for fixed base stations (there might be less technical/high level presentations available, that is one that showed up via a Google search and is an IEEE one)
<a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.ieee802.org/22/Technology/22-10-0073-03-0000-802-22-overview-and-core-technologies.pdf">http://www.ieee802.org/22/Technology/22-10-0073-03-0000-802-22-overview-and-core-technologies.pdf</a>
A chain of point-to-point wireless links with an 802.22 cell on the end of it to reach a remote rural site would provide a much better Internet experience than the satellite alternative. With the amount of money NBNco are to be spending on launching their own satellites, I think that would buy plenty of 802.22 cells and interconnecting infrastructure instead.</pre>
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