[AusNOG] Pipe on front page of www.news.com.au right now

[Daniel Hooper]

Is it true that PPC-1 is an unprotected circuit? Meaning carriers/providers still need to buy from reach/southern cross etc?

If so.. I can't see how this is really going to lower any one's prices.

-Dan

From: ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of Matthew Moyle-Croft
Sent: Tuesday, 26 May 2009 1:43 PM
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Subject: Re: [AusNOG] Pipe on front page of www.news.com.au right now


On 26/05/2009, at 2:29 PM, Nathan Brookfield (SAU) wrote:


Grahame Lynch is absolutely kidding himself? AGVC + National Transit to Telstra and other carriers who don't peer is the major killer or am I just totally off the mark here?



It's not possible to operate an IP network in Australia without paying the "GoF" tax and this effective "cartel" the ACCC created all those years ago for domestic peering I think is something the ACCC/Government will have to look at fairly soon.  Otherwise it's going to constrain the growth of content delivery in Australia as the Domestic IP price becomes the "floor" price providers have to ensure they sell above so they don't get arbitraged.

Reach/Singtel/TNZI all quite happily peer with networks of our size offshore (ie.  if Internode was US based, then peering on the West Coast of the USA with all three would be fairly assured).

MMC
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