<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><div>Guys,</div><div><br></div><div>It would be a great buy for Telstra. For many, many years (since the early 90’s) they have been trying to get into Asia in a meaningful way with some disasterous results in the 90’s. Pacnet has assets “baked” into Asia that Telstra could leverage really well. People on-list probably don’t realise how wide and deep Pacnet are in Asia. Landing stations/data centres, major subsea cable owner in most major Asian countries, with particular strength in HK and Sing and beachhead into China (one of the few to operate in China).</div><div><br></div><div>Moving some of that NBN$ out of Australia and into Asia. If managed well it’s a smart move David Thodey.</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers</div><div><br></div><div>[b]</div><div><br></div><span id="OLK_SRC_BODY_SECTION"><div style="font-family:Calibri; font-size:11pt; text-align:left; color:black; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: #b5c4df 1pt solid; BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-TOP: 3pt"><span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span> "<a href="mailto:hudrob@gmail.com">hudrob@gmail.com</a>" <<a href="mailto:hudrob@gmail.com">hudrob@gmail.com</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span> Thursday, 18 December 2014 7:44 am<br><span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span> Damien Gardner Jnr <<a href="mailto:rendrag@rendrag.net">rendrag@rendrag.net</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Cc: </span> "<a href="mailto:ausnog@lists.ausnog.net">ausnog@lists.ausnog.net</a>" <<a href="mailto:ausnog@lists.ausnog.net">ausnog@lists.ausnog.net</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span> Re: [AusNOG] Telstra + Pacnet - Just thinking<br></div><div><br></div><div dir="ltr">My latest dealing with Telstra haven't been stellar. Routers sent to site and the wrong people contacted about them, failing to mention that they'd terminated a service in a ready room when the order was for a service into a rtack (amnd then not passing on the circuit details so a cross-connect could be ordered, misconfiguring routers (including not allowing remote access to them for management).<div><br></div><div>And now I face the prospect of having them take over the datacentre I currently have a good deal of kit in...</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 18 December 2014 at 07:09, Damien Gardner Jnr <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rendrag@rendrag.net" target="_blank">rendrag@rendrag.net</a>></span> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">I couldn't imagine how painful it would to deal with a Telstra version of Megaport. When I got TID ADSL connected at home here last year, somehow they provisioned it without IPv6 (And that was after having to order it EIGHT times, because Telstra didn't bother to let me know that the order was being automagically cancelled the next day due to a wholesaler having a pending order in for the same service). <div><br></div><div>30 mins going around in circles to support, and they finally put me through to an Engineer who said it was a 2- minute change, but he needed me to call sales to ask for it first. Six calls and about 3 hours of hell later, I FINALLY had someone in sales who knew what V6 was. Six follow-up calls and six weeks later, I finally got onto an Engineer again, who seemed surprised that I was asking when my V6 would be enabled, as apparently it had been enabled for five weeks - just noone ever notified me. Apparently an IPv6 subnet appearing in Custdata means V6 has been enabled for the service (Not sure what you do if you have multiple services??), and you just need to keep checking for it.<div><br></div><div>Could you imagine going through that EVERY time you spin up a VXC? YUCK.</div><div><br></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">On 18 December 2014 at 03:53, Skeeve Stevens <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:skeeve+ausnog@eintellegonetworks.com" target="_blank">skeeve+ausnog@eintellegonetworks.com</a>></span> wrote:</div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="h5"><div dir="ltr">Hmmm... <div><br></div><div>I know it is speculation... but look at a (maybe) Telstra a year from now...</div><div><br></div><div>Let's say Telstra owns Pacnet, which means it owns PEN (Pacnet enabled Network)... a Virtual X-Connect Fabric, that is already interconnected to Megaport and possibly others (anyone like to advise?).</div><div><br></div><div>If Telstra integrate Pacnet as is, potentially it means VxC access to Telstra (Wholesale?) infrastructure on Megaport and others... and also access to the pacific fibre network (46,000 km worth of cable), datacentres overseas which would also potentially be on Megaport in places like Singapore, HK, etc.</div><div><br></div><div>Honestly... I'd like to see what would come of it... and hope that Telstra fully interconnect into a marketplace something like the above.</div><div><br></div><div><div><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>...Skeeve</div><div><br></div><div><div><b style="font-size:13px;font-family:Calibri">Skeeve Stevens - </b><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Calibri">eintellego Networks Pty Ltd</span></div><div><div><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:13px"><a href="mailto:skeeve@eintellegonetworks.com" target="_blank">skeeve@eintellegonetworks.com</a> ; <a href="http://www.eintellegonetworks.com/" target="_blank">www.eintellegonetworks.com</a></span><font><p style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:13px;margin:0px">Phone: 1300 239 038; Cell <a href="tel:%2B61%20%280%29414%20753%20383" value="+61414753383" target="_blank">+61 (0)414 753 383</a> ; <a>skype://skeeve</a></p><p style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:13px;margin:0px"><a href="http://facebook.com/eintellegonetworks" target="_blank">facebook.com/eintellegonetworks</a> ; <a href="http://twitter.com/networkceoau" target="_blank"></a><a href="http://linkedin.com/in/skeeve" target="_blank">linkedin.com/in/skeeve</a> </p><p style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:13px;margin:0px"><a href="http://twitter.com/theispguy" target="_blank">twitter.com/theispguy</a><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"> ; blog: </span><a href="http://www.theispguy.com/" target="_blank">www.theispguy.com</a><br></p><p style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:13px;margin:0px"><img src="http://eintellegonetworks.com/logos/ein09.png"><br></p><p style="margin:0px"><span style="color: rgb(127, 0, 127); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">The Experts Who The Experts Call</span></p></font></div><div style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:14px;color:rgb(127,0,127)"><span style="color:rgb(0,32,96);font-size:13px">Juniper - Cisco </span><span style="color:rgb(0,32,96);font-size:13px">- Cumulus Linux - Cloud</span><span style="color:rgb(0,32,96);font-size:13px"> </span><span style="color:rgb(0,32,96);font-size:13px">- Consulting</span><span style="color:rgb(0,32,96);font-size:13px"> </span><span style="color:rgb(0,32,96);font-size:13px">- IPv4 Brokering</span><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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