[AusNOG] Darwin Connectivity

Fri Mar 19 11:22:38 EST 2010

Hi Curtis,

Amcom has a circuit from Perth to Darwin.

I wouldn't put any money on Optus having anything there... we tried that
path years ago and it was all talk before hitting a dead end.

If you need a reliable service that has the bandwidth and is going to
get the job done with minimal hassle, I would just suck it up and head
to Telstra.
Whilst they are incredibly expensive, you will save your time and
sanity. 

Make sure you have a failover solution, because in Darwin you will need
it.

Cheers.

Regards, 

Darren Moss
General Manager
Australia and New Zealand
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From: Curtis Bayne [mailto:curtis at bayne.com.au] 
Sent: 2010-03-19 11:15 am
To: Darren Moss; Skeeve Stevens; Ben Cornish; ausnog at ausnog.net
Subject: RE: [AusNOG] Darwin Connectivity

Darren,

Other than Telstra, does anyone else have backhaul up top? A multi-hop
microwave circuit perhaps?

An Optus tech (who used to work in carriage) mentioned to me once that
Optus have a fibre circuit between Brisbane and Perth for redundancy,
but was unable to indicate whether there was a spur to Darwin.

Regards,
Curtis

-----Original Message-----
From: Darren Moss [mailto:Darren.Moss at em3.com.au]
Sent: Fri 3/19/2010 10:12 AM
To: Skeeve Stevens; Curtis Bayne; Ben Cornish; ausnog at ausnog.net
Subject: RE: [AusNOG] Darwin Connectivity

You really need to go there and look at the infrastructure first. It's
not like other locations around the country.

Telstra is pretty much it. And they are really the only party
maintaining anything.

Backhaul is via Adelaide.

It is reasonably responsive, we run VoIP and video conferencing over our
services back to Melb and Sydney with no issues.... apart from the odd
outage due to weather/power/water.

Cheers.

Regards,

Darren Moss
General Manager
Australia and New Zealand
[p] 1300 131 083 [f] 03 9017 2287
[e] Darren.Moss at em3.com.au [w] www.em3.com.au <http://www.em3.com.au/>

em3 People and Technology | Managed Technology Experts
postal: PO Box 2333, Moorabbin VIC 3189

New Zealand Airedale Street, Auckland City
postal: PO Box 39573, Howick 2045
[p] 09 887 0550 [f] 09 887 0273

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From: ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net
[mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of Skeeve Stevens
Sent: 2010-03-19 11:09 am
To: Curtis Bayne; Ben Cornish; ausnog at ausnog.net
Subject: Re: [AusNOG] Darwin Connectivity

So this exchange list I have from 2006 for XYZed

2

ALICE SPRINGS

ALSS

4

PARSONS

ST

ALICE SPRINGS

ALICE SPRINGS

NT

3

Regional 4

55

DARWIN

DRWN

99

SMITH

ST

DARWIN

DARWIN

NT

2

Regional 4

Did they pull those DLAM's out then?

Anyone got a current exchange list for XYZed?

--

Skeeve Stevens, CEO/Technical Director

eintellego Pty Ltd - The Networking Specialists

skeeve at eintellego.net / www.eintellego.net

Phone: 1300 753 383, Fax: (+612) 8572 9954

Cell +61 (0)414 753 383 / skype://skeeve

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From: ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net
[mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of Curtis Bayne
Sent: Friday, 19 March 2010 10:52 AM
To: Skeeve Stevens; Ben Cornish; ausnog at ausnog.net
Subject: Re: [AusNOG] Darwin Connectivity

If you're interested in terminating in Brisbane you can get (with some
kicking and screaming) a Telstra ATM/Frame Relay service between Darwin
and Brisbane that goes via their old trunk circuits in Townsville.
Townsville used to be a major switching centre/agg point for Telstra
traffic in the north.

RTT to Brisbane is less than 50ms in some cases and I'm sure they'd have
4Mbps of spare capacity.

As far as I am aware, Optus do not have DSLAMs in Alice Springs or
Darwin: there is no competitive infrastructure there.

Regards,
Curtis

-----Original Message-----
From: ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net on behalf of Skeeve Stevens
Sent: Fri 3/19/2010 9:42 AM
To: Ben Cornish; ausnog at ausnog.net
Subject: Re: [AusNOG] Darwin Connectivity

Doesn't Optus have DSLAM's in Darwin? They have one in Alice Springs.

Telstra has 4/4 in Darwin... you can get a handoff from NN.

I thought you guys were an Optus partner?

...Skeeve

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Skeeve Stevens, CEO/Technical Director
eintellego Pty Ltd - The Networking Specialists
skeeve at eintellego.net / www.eintellego.net
Phone: 1300 753 383, Fax: (+612) 8572 9954
Cell +61 (0)414 753 383 / skype://skeeve
www.linkedin.com/in/skeeve ; facebook.com/eintellego
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NOC, NOC, who's there?

From: ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net
[mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of Ben Cornish
Sent: Friday, 19 March 2010 10:05 AM
To: ausnog at ausnog.net
Subject: [AusNOG] Darwin Connectivity

HI All,

Does anyone have any recommendations for 4Mb/sec symmetrical reliable
Services in the Darwin area aggregated back to Either SA/BNE/SYD/MEL at
a reasonable price ?

Thanks

Ben Cornish
National Network Manager

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