[AusNOG] Mike Quigley has resigned

[Geordie Guy]

Great lets roll it out to a 23m people who live around the edges of a 7.6m
square kilometer island in the southern pacific.

Wait...


On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 3:40 PM, Paul Wallace <paul.wallace at mtgi.com.au>wrote:

> Actually .. some Germans demonstrated 40Gbps over 'the air' over around
> 1km last  month!
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> On 12/07/2013, at 3:32 PM, "Mitch Kelly" <mitchkelly24 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Resigned and retired are not the same thing....
> On 12/07/2013 1:21 PM, "Narelle" <narellec at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 3:01 PM, Robert Hudson <hudrob at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> On 12 July 2013 14:51, Mark ZZZ Smith <markzzzsmith at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
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>>>> I don't think it is a good idea to spend lots of time and money on
>>>> possibly maybes.
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>> It's should be a TCO argument: building something with more forethought
>> means you can avoid costs that you will incur later on in the life of the
>> asset.
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>> With IPv4 vs IPv6 we need to get more scale deployment in order to reduce
>> the overall costs we will all incur later. It's all a question of how
>> probable the possibilities are and balancing the risk against the cost,
>> taking into account all the various affects...
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>>> The majority of what we do on networks are electronic analogues of what
>>>> we do "IRL" - the names of the applications are a give away e.g., eMAIL,
>>>> video CONFERENCING etc. The majority of human communications is unicast or
>>>> bidirectional, which is why unicast style applications are the dominant
>>>> ones. The entertainment industry might be glamorous, but it pales compared
>>>> to the revenue of the telecommunications industry.
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>>> The way we consume media is evolving, and the entertainment industry
>>> will eventually be dragged, kicking, screaming, biting and spitting, along
>>> with us.
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>>> Despite what some people think, there isn't sufficient bandwidth in the
>>> air to support the continued growth of media consumption, particularly on
>>> demand - that's where things like the NBN with its existing and potential
>>> bandwidth potentials actually matter for the future.
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>> While I am again one of the biggest fans of multicast, the fact is that
>> it is complex, and it was conceived with broadcast equivalence largely in
>> mind: what we have today are lots of pockets of users watching niche
>> content, rather than large scale consumption. Except, perhaps, for the
>> cricket when 19yos save the day for struggling nations. I'm sure there's a
>> tool out there for traffic modelling that we all need which would magically
>> calculate when to swap from a unicast to a multicast model by IP
>> address/domain!
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>> Cheers
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>> Narelle
>> narellec at gmail.com
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