[AusNOG] Katter backs Coalition - Windsor backs Gillard

[Paseka, Tomas]

Hi Lincoln,

So when is Telepresense gonna be at a price point that the average
business can afford to buy it?

Or any other video conferencing solution for that point.

Don't get me wrong - TP is a great product, but even if every business
had 100mbit links today - I really doubt you'd have that many more
sales.

People who want & can justify the cost of HD video conferencing
solutions today, already have it, without the support of a government
funded network.



-----Original Message-----
From: ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net
[mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of Lincoln Dale
Sent: Tuesday, 7 September 2010 4:38 PM
To: Mark Newton
Cc: Bevan Slattery; ausnog at lists.ausnog.net
Subject: Re: [AusNOG] Katter backs Coalition - Windsor backs Gillard

On 07/09/2010, at 5:39 PM, Mark Newton wrote:

>> My personal bet is that most of regional won't even care (speaking
from experience as my father is regional).
> 
> My experience is that regional people care A LOT to get broadband, it 
> really changes their lives.  Simple things, like being able to stay in
touch
> with the kids who have moved to the City via VoIP and videochat
> 
> But they also don't care how fast it is.  Again, in my experience.

	"The only way you can predict the future is to build it." - Alan
Kay

i used to think having lots of bandwidth was overrated too.  but one
case in point is the degree to which i use HD videoconferencing
practically every workday.
for me, its meant i can actually be _more_ productive working from home,
not going into the office and not having to fly across the pacific a
dozen or more times a year like i used to.

that is but one use of "broadband" with decent upstream capacity today.
i'm quite sure there will be countless more examples in the future.
granted the likes of Cisco Telepresence is not exactly 'commodity' but
clearly decent video not postage-stamp video that breaks up the moment
you wave your hands is going to be one of the obvious use cases.


>   - mark
>     [ who, for the record, is on a Telstra 8 Mbps ADSL1 port with
congested
>       backhaul, in a RIM -- But, like, whatever. ]

you'll get the NBN quicker than i do then.

i'm on ADSL2+ on iinet, but with an increasing number of bridge taps
appearing recently, grrr..   at least what is proposed doesn't have
contractors messing with existing cables that degrade existing services.


cheers,

lincoln.
NB. i bet David and Terry are having a beer, happy that they don't need
radical changes to the AusNOG-04 programme.
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