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Questions

Will REANNZ be charging for internet access through the NEN?

--donaldsclark 21:52, 17 December 2009 (NZDT) The plan is that the Trial extension budget will purchase filtered commodity internet centrally and deliver it via the NEN to schools.

How will the last mile service from the school to KAREN be paid for?

--donaldsclark 21:52, 17 December 2009 (NZDT) REANNZ will buy last mile access from the marketplace and pay for this centrally from the Trial extension budget.

How does a last mile provider connect to a KAREN PoP? Is it as simple as a gigabit ethernet port with layer 2 back to the school or is more required?

--donaldsclark 21:52, 17 December 2009 (NZDT) We're not sure yet, we plan to connect with the supplier community to work on the best ways to do this. We plan to buy and manage our our Layer 3 devices in each geographic cluster, so certainly just connecting in a Layer 2 service is one option. In other places, we may buy and control layer 1 or layer 2 services into the school and install a CPE edge device. Welcome views on different models for this.

--donaldsclark 14:59, 25 February 2010 (NZDT) as a further thought, we are keen to explore dark fibre and CWDM solutions to keep costs and complexity down whilst providing enough bandwidth to avoid worry about QoS issues.