[AusNOG] Telstra + Pacnet - Just thinking

[Bevan Slattery]

Guys,

It would be a great buy for Telstra.  For many, many years (since the early
90¹s) they have been trying to get into Asia in a meaningful way with some
disasterous results in the 90¹s.  Pacnet has assets ³baked² into Asia that
Telstra could leverage really well.  People on-list probably don¹t realise
how wide and deep Pacnet are in Asia.  Landing stations/data centres, major
subsea cable owner in most major Asian countries, with particular strength
in HK and Sing and beachhead into China (one of the few to operate in
China).

Moving some of that NBN$ out of Australia and into Asia.  If managed well
it¹s a smart move David Thodey.

Cheers

[b]

From:  "hudrob at gmail.com" <hudrob at gmail.com>
Date:  Thursday, 18 December 2014 7:44 am
To:  Damien Gardner Jnr <rendrag at rendrag.net>
Cc:  "ausnog at lists.ausnog.net" <ausnog at lists.ausnog.net>
Subject:  Re: [AusNOG] Telstra + Pacnet - Just thinking

My latest dealing with Telstra haven't been stellar.  Routers sent to site
and the wrong people contacted about them, failing to mention that they'd
terminated a service in a ready room when the order was for a service into a
rtack (amnd then not passing on the circuit details so a cross-connect could
be ordered, misconfiguring routers (including not allowing remote access to
them for management).

And now I face the prospect of having them take over the datacentre I
currently have a good deal of kit in...

On 18 December 2014 at 07:09, Damien Gardner Jnr <rendrag at rendrag.net>
wrote:
> I couldn't imagine how painful it would to deal with a Telstra version of
> Megaport.  When I got TID ADSL connected at home here last year, somehow they
> provisioned it without IPv6  (And that was after having to order it EIGHT
> times, because Telstra didn't bother to let me know that the order was being
> automagically cancelled the next day due to a wholesaler having a pending
> order in for the same service).
> 
> 30 mins going around in circles to support, and they finally put me through to
> an Engineer who said it was a 2- minute change, but he needed me to call sales
> to ask for it first.  Six calls and about 3 hours of hell later, I FINALLY had
> someone in sales who knew what V6 was.  Six follow-up calls and six weeks
> later, I finally got onto an Engineer again, who seemed surprised that I was
> asking when my V6 would be enabled, as apparently it had been enabled for five
> weeks - just noone ever notified me.  Apparently an IPv6 subnet appearing in
> Custdata means V6 has been enabled for the service (Not sure what you do if
> you have multiple services??), and you just need to keep checking for it.
> 
> Could you imagine going through that EVERY time you spin up a VXC?  YUCK.
> 
> 
> On 18 December 2014 at 03:53, Skeeve Stevens
> <skeeve+ausnog at eintellegonetworks.com> wrote:
>> Hmmm... 
>> 
>> I know it is speculation... but look at a (maybe) Telstra a year from now...
>> 
>> Let's say Telstra owns Pacnet, which means it owns PEN (Pacnet enabled
>> Network)... a Virtual X-Connect Fabric, that is already interconnected to
>> Megaport and possibly others (anyone like to advise?).
>> 
>> If Telstra integrate Pacnet as is, potentially it means VxC access to Telstra
>> (Wholesale?) infrastructure on Megaport and others... and also access to the
>> pacific fibre network (46,000 km worth of cable), datacentres overseas which
>> would also potentially be on Megaport in places like Singapore, HK, etc.
>> 
>> Honestly... I'd like to see what would come of it... and hope that Telstra
>> fully interconnect into a marketplace something like the above.
>> 
>> ...Skeeve
>> 
>> Skeeve Stevens - eintellego Networks Pty Ltd
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