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Outdoor Chaise

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:41:26 +0000

If you are in the market for an outdoor chaise, you have plenty of different styles to choose from. If you live in an area with quite a bit of rain, a teak chaise will work as teak is weather resistant hence why it was often used in shipbuilding. If you like old fashioned or

National Agents Alliance Announces Partnership With Royal Bank Of Canada

Sun, 14 Feb 2010 03:51:23 +0000

Image via Wikipedia What a powerful addition National Agents Alliance has made to its arsenal of products and services from Royal Bank of Canada (RBC).Â The line up can’t get much stronger than this. Royal Bank of Canada is one of the largest financial institutions in the world. National Agents Alliance targets the baby boomer generation and

Is Caring For Elderly Parents a Burden or Responsibility?

Thu, 07 Jan 2010 00:39:06 +0000

When you are old and gray where would you like to spend your last one year as your body slowly withers away? Would you like to see the smiling face of your grandchildren every morning as they greet you before leaving for school? Or would you like to be woken up by the loud plastic curtain

Easter Bunny Baskets has Become an Easter Tradition

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:31:14 +0000

The Easter bunny basket has become to represent the Easter Holiday every year. These items have outstanding themes along with gifts within each basket for the recipient to enjoy. These tradition dates back many years and it is celebrated nowadays by millions on Easter. As our ancestors use it to carry their harvest in

Gardall Safes

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 23:06:31 +0000

Gardall Safes are suitable for business and home use and should be on your must have list if you run your own business or hold valuables or a firearm at home. Too many people believe that a fire or theft won’t happen to them but the statistics prove you wrong. If a fire was to happen

Teenagers Beds Are Actually A Terrific Bargain

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:37:39 +0000

As you are searching for young adults furniture, you are likely to be confronted with a lot of alternatives. Boys And Girls bedrooms in particular provide Fathers loads of head aches. Given it appears that the bunkbed that your adolescent decides on as well as the bunkbed that will last for a longer time tend

Debit Card Fraud

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 22:20:16 +0000

Debit card fraud is on the increase. When there is an economic recession similar to the one we are currently experiencing, generally speaking the crime rate increases. In the old days this meant that more houses got burgled and more shops were robbed and while these crimes are still happening today, the modern thief is

Do You Use the Throw and Stick Strategy

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:07:00 +0000

You have heard of this before have you not. Let us throw a bunch of stuff against the wall and see what sticks. It is said in marketing and it is also said in dieting circles. People are shifting from one product to another, from one diet program to another until they find one that

1gb SD Card

Sat, 06 Mar 2010 17:50:34 +0000

Are you looking for a 1gb sd card? SD is an abbreviation for secure digital card. You have probably seen a Kodak 1gb sd card if you have or your friends have a Kodak digital camera. These cards are also used in phones, mobiles and digital cameras as a memory card but these are not

An easy way of choosing your next helmet

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:06:43 +0000

If you are thinking about buying a new motorbike helmet then you may be asking yourself a few questions. You will be surprised to know that there are a number of choices out there for you to choose from. Your choice of helmet will rely on what you want it for and this will help you

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Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:04:48 +0000

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Chevy Rims

Sat, 06 Mar 2010 16:33:50 +0000

Custom chevy rims are a great way to improve the look and value of your Chevy. It doesn't make any difference whether you go for rims that match the color of your car or shiny chrome to add that touch of bling that is so cool these days. If you want to customize your wheels and make 'em more you then upgrading your rims is a great start.

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High Society Â« Park Avenue Peerage

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:03:38 -0800

Park Avenue's princess Tinsley Mortimer is making the transition to your television screen in the form of High Society, her very own reality show. The personalities you were first introduced to on this website, Jules Kirby and Paul

WordPress: Visual QuickStart Guide

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:59:24 +0000

ISBN13: 9780321679215 Condition: NEW Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark. Product DescriptionThis book gives readers the tools they need to create beautiful, functional WordPress-powered sites with minimal hassle. Using the WordPress user interface as a baseline, authors Jessica Neuman Beck and Matt Beck walk new users through the installation and setup process while providing valuable

2010 â a new year for new ideas and success!

Sun, 24 Jan 2010 20:04:06 +0000

OK, so it may be easy to jump on the gravy train and advocate achieving success in the new year – but hey – that’s one of the benefits of it being a new year! We have a great excuse to throw out the old and bring in the new! And it all starts with

Ideas on Creating your own Easter Basket

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:23:10 +0000

With Easter approaching next month, you need to start your preparations for Easter basket ideas you’re going to use. You can be overwhelming of the choices for making your Â own personal Easter baskets, starting with the basket by itself. Creating an basket as wonderful to fill as you keep your bunnies busy with

Braun 8985

Sat, 06 Mar 2010 15:24:04 +0000

A Braun 8985 shaver is an excellent product for the man who understands that first impressions count. There is nothing attractive about an unkempt beard not now when beard styling is so in vogue. The benefit of dealing with a brand like Braun is that it is easy to find Braun 8985 parts and accessories should

Lip Palette

Sat, 06 Mar 2010 13:22:26 +0000

Have you ever bought a lip palette? Some women swear by these sets while others prefer to use just one shade of lipstick their whole life. Personally I think a lip palette makes a great present even if you are treating yourself. You can find many different types of lip palette available; some will only include

AIG Plans to Sell AIA to Prudential

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 22:24:46 +0000

American International Group, Inc. (AIG), under the legal counsel of Debevoise & Plimpton LLP, announced plans to sell American International Assurance (AIA), worldâs leading pan-Asian life insurance group, to Prudential plc (Prudential).

Pacific Fibre cable a bold initiative that the government should support

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 03:31 Y

Will the NZ$900 million Pacific Fibre cable mooted by messieurs Drury, Morgan, Tindall, Rushworth, Humphrey and Wiggs succeed? Certainly, the list of founders is impressive with everyone on it not only having an understanding of why Big Fat Pipes with Low Latency are a good thing, but they also have real incentives for the Pacific Fibre cable to succeed - Rod Drury and Sam Morgan especially, with their Internet-based businesses depending on good networks.

John Humphrey is a satellite and cable guy of long standing that I met at the Shin Sat IPstar launch way too many years ago (and, I ended up with a huge dish on my roof as proof that it was indeed possible to deliver decent broadband via birds high up in the sky).

Mark Rushworth and Lance Wiggs get what the Internet is about, and having Stephen Tindall onboard isn't going to hurt Pacific Fibre in the slightest.

Of course, having lots of well-known names onboard doesn't equate success but Pacific Fibre is launching into a market that's difficult to satiate at the moment. It's almost as if you need to dimension networks according to the capacities of their computers' storage and interface speeds - you need to get as close as possible to those two factors to keep customers happy.

The 5.12 Terabits per second that the Pacific Fibre cable is supposed to launch with probably isn't that much over the next decade or so, and it's good to see a 12 Tbit/s upgrade has been factored in.

Having lots of bandwidth for large video, audio, and picture files is one thing but I found it interesting to talk to Rushworth today, and hearing him emphasise low latency as a competitive point of difference. Mark's right of course. NZ and Australia are a huge distance away from everywhere, so the less packet delay, the better. From memory, the best roundtrip you get over Southern Cross is 120 to 130ms to LA, which translates to 160 to 170ms for end users in Auckland. Not disastrously high, but if you can shave 20 to 30ms off that, people with real-time apps are going to be much happier.

Now, the money: $900 million's not chump change, and finding the funding will be a challenge for Pacific Fibre. Given the stated goals of Pacific Fibre, I think this is one project that the government should consider investing in. Morgan's said Pacific Fibre isn't about maximising profits, but to build infrastructure that will benefit the entire country.

Kordia, a state-owned enterprise is said to be teaming up with Pacific Net, but I think a direct investment in the system by the government may be in order, provided the business plan is sound. For starters, it would give our academic network KAREN another less expensive option to Southern Cross for international transit and maybe even get them close to the twin 10GB wavelengths that the Aussie AARnet has.

Some years ago, I spoke to a MED mandarin who said that the then government was given the option of buying a ten per cent stake of the Southern Cross Cable. If that had happened, things may have been very different now, but the government didn't take up that option. Here's a second chance, and Key's cabinet should take it.

Maybe there's a way to micro-finance the cable too, with individuals communities in NZ and Australia chipping in small amounts but in large numbers?

I'm also wondering if Southern Cross smelt something in the wind last year, when its sales director Ross Pfeffer started talking about the possibility of a new cable or upgrading the existing system. The SCCS has been a great success for Telecom, Singtel/Optus and Verizon and it'll be interesting to see how they respond to the Pacific Fibre initiative.

Price cuts on the SCCS could happen, but they won't be much use unless we see some seriously improved pricing on national delivery as well. My ISP contacts tell me that Auckland-Wellington can cost more than Auckland-LA nowadays. Maybe Pacific Fibre needs to have a think about national delivery as well?

Update some industry and academia comment that arrived via Science Media Centre:

Brett O'Riley, CEO of NZICT, comments:
"As New Zealand only has one high-capacity link into the country today, I know major global data centre operators have not considered NZ as a suitable location, despite the fact that we have lower power prices, and greener power, than most of the other countries bidding. But we haven't had redundant capacity and the low cost structures people are looking for.

We can see that international prices out of New Zealand are more expensive than our trading partners, and we've been advocating for a decrease in those prices and we see competition as being the best lever for that.

"From a science perspective, potential projects like the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) will be generating 'astronomical' data sets - it's estimated the SKA will generate more data in a day than the whole world does in a year, currently.

"So we see this new cable and other planned initiatives as being absolutely essential if New Zealand and Australia are to make a compelling case to host the SKA, and clearly there will be many other spin-offs and opp for the science community from this.

"It will also have an extremely positive impact on the ICT sector, given the improved latency which will enable New Zealand companies to offer software as a service remotely to major economies, and will enable New Zealand to continue its growth as a development shop for other digital economies."

Dr Vladimir Mencl, e-research services and systems consultant at the University of Canterbury comments:
"The existing KAREN network has solved the problem of connections between research organisations. But because of tight data caps, universities use a cost recovery model for internet access in their commercial operations, often with costs charged back to the home department of the university. As a result off the KAREN network, I will often spend a lot of time looking for alternative ways to download a file more efficiently.

"The KAREN network has been over-built intentionally so there is a lot of capacity for video-conferencing and it offers low-latency services. So I don't think a new cable would offer much there, there isn't a great strain on the network. He have international collaborations using the BlueFern supercomputer at Canterbury with other countries including Australia and Canada as well as local research organisatons.

"But KAREN doesn't really have the model right yet. It doesn't run purely on a cost-recovery basis, it is still centrally funded by the Government. If cheaper international bandwidth means it is cheaper to run KAREN that's money that could be saved and diverted to other research projects."

Update II Google might want to put some dosh into the Pacific Fibre cable too. Probably a more likely investor than our straitened government.

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