[AusNOG] HFC

[Robert Hudson]

In theory, 100Mbps/40Mbps service (and even 1Gbps/400Mbps) services are
possible over the nbn HFC service.  Data charges to cover 400GB a month
shouldn't be an issue.

Of course, that's just last mile.  There's a lot more to a service than the
last mile.  You will get "best efforts" SLA for support of a consumer-grade
service, and likely won't get a static IP.  Upgrading to business-grade
will resolve some of the issues - but then, when the HFC cable itself is
down (let's say a garbage truck cuts it, and resolution is 8 hours), what
do you do for redundancy (and you're not thinking redundancy as a service
consumer here, but rather as a service provider for your email)?

Personally, I don't think there's actually a valid reason to run a mail
server in an office these days except under extreme edge-cases - hosted or
cloud mail (or full collaboration, such as Exchange Online via O365)
services are so cheap on a monthly basis that the real cost of procuring,
building, running and maintaining a reliable service in an office is just
insane these days.

On 12 September 2017 at 11:31, Burt Mascareigne <Burt at stormnetwork.com.au>
wrote:

> Hi All
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> Does anyone have real world exp for this? Can we run a mailserver from
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> all day but do market research (a LOT of media).  We get in excess of 400GB
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> Is this going to work?  Or stick to what we have now.
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> Regards,
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> *Burt Mascareigne Mobile* 0414 450 962   *Office* (02) 9965 5422
> *Address* Level 19, 1 O’Connell Street, Sydney NSW 2000
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