Re: Meetings in other regions

[Joe Abley <jabley at ca.afilias.info>]

On 13-Jul-2006, at 07:38, Fred Baker wrote:

> I spoke a week ago with Franck Martin, from Fiji. If you're looking  
> for "places", Fiji would be a wonderful. He complained that while  
> many GBPS of fiber traveled within a few miles of his home, but due  
> to the cost of the landing site he was limited to tens of kilobits.  
> If you're looking for OC-3 to the hotel...

As an aside on Fiji, I think the price issues with access to Southern  
Cross from Fiji have more to do with effective regulation. In other  
words, the price of the connectivity from a meeting's perspective  
probably depends greatly on who your sponsor is (or, more  
specifically, whether they happen to be the people with the exclusive  
local access to the cable head).

Franck would no doubt get much most cost-effective and higher- 
performance access to his house if he acquired sponsorship of this  
kind :-)

APNIC 18 was held in Fiji, and very nice it was, too. I have fond  
memories of SIP over wifi from the beach.


Joe




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