In NZ, Sharing Ethernet With A Whole CIty

ryuko writes: "Normally LANs are used by a single organization at best, but Wellington's 13-square-mile LAN comprises many of the city's businesses. The city council garnered a UNESCO Digital Access Award in recognition of its achievement in installing the 1,000 Mbps network. The full article is here on ZDNet. Drool ... gigabit internet ..."

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Too much money makes Jack a dull boy

[MosesJones]

"We never had the luxury of spending lots of money," says Naylor. "We needed to be able to make do with less."

So in other words, all of the people elsewhere with massive budgets have been conned into buying large amounts of expensive kit to get less for their money than these guys.

Brains 1 - Suits 0

The most impressive thing about this is the simplicity of it. This isn't next gen tech or anything this is just someone who had the smarts to think

"Hang on we supply electricity via a distributed network rather than Point 2 Point, why can't we do the same with the internet... hang on its cheaper as well"

Real issue here though is that the City backed up the smart guy rather than getting CorporationX to do it, had then gone for the latter route they would be right where the rest of us are with our T1s to the Telco backbones.

I predict this won't happen in big cities because they have too much money to be sensible.