[AusNOG] Warrnambool exchange

[Matt Perkins]

It's amazing that these are the same sorts of people who dont want to 
"Gold Plate" the power distribution network because of the 1 or 2 days a 
year of downtime that would be a result but are proponents of gold 
plating the teleco network.

The old adage. Faster, Better, Cheaper Pick any two .

Matt.



On 26/11/12 1:17 PM, Damian Guppy wrote:
> Hmmm, yes. We should all move to wireless because of an outage that 
> cut both physical lines and wireless (mobile) services, that will fix 
> our problem! Some one give this guy an award.
>
> --Damian
>
>
> On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 10:01 AM, Ross Wheeler <ausnog at rossw.net 
> <mailto:ausnog at rossw.net>> wrote:
>
>
>
>     On Mon, 26 Nov 2012, Matt Perkins wrote:
>
>         Here we go.  It was only a matter of time.
>
>         http://www.standard.net.au/story/1144950/mayor-wants-answers-over-telstra-breakdown/?cs=12
>
>
>     "Maybe we should be looking further ahead at satellite and
>     wireless links rather than relying on physical lines."
>
>     <sarcasm>
>     Ahh, right, because satellites just can't fail. And even if they
>     did, you can courier a replacement there overnight. conroy is on
>     record saying that "his" satellites "don't have latency
>     problems"... so it all sounds like the perfect solution.
>     </sarcasm>
>
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