Digital Economy Action plan

Rather_b_diving

Anybody see this?

http://www.siliconrepublic.com/news/article/13521/government/digital-economy-action-plan

This is where the new jobs are coming from? Did John Kennedy actually talk to someone or does he just publish this crap coming in from Ryan?

The Government is now going to use the MANs and create an Exemplar network - why? Are they going to sell services to customers - no otherwise every ISP including eircom would be a bit "upset"!

If they provide an alternative backbone to eircom then the Unions and ESOT will be annoyed not to mention BT and their recent deal with Vodafone. It would also be more efficient leading to the loss of jobs not the introduction of new jobs.

Also Data centres that will be used for "Cloud computing" already have incentives to be Greener - we've the highest electricity costs in Europe and our dependancy on oil is going to keep it that way.

Mr Ryan should stick to something he knows what he's talking about - bicycles!!

watty

Discussed here.
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055627371

The consensus is that there is NO new fibre. Just fitting some Intune boxes on some existing "state owned" fibre.

It would affect BT & ESB most. Most of the MANs connectivity is separately organised by whatever company rents from eNet (the organisation that runs the MANs for the Local councils). Most of that is BT's ESAT/CIE fibre or ESB's fibre.

HeaNet may have some fibre too.

Intune is only one of many companies developing >10Gbps solutions for fibre.

See also http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055600057 to see how hollow this is.

First deBunked here http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055401687

If they really were doing what is alluded to (Backbones to connect the MANs and International Fibres and Data Centers) it would be great.

Also the biggest issue in Ireland is the User Connection, the so called "Last Mile". Despite what Minister Ryan claims, Mobile Masts (3G/HSPA or the NBS) is not Broadband and never will be.

Rather_b_diving

I've seen all the threads but what infuriates me as much as Ryan's incompetance is the lack of any real challenge from our so called media. These people are supposed to challenge the press releases rather than simply cutting and pasting the rubbish into papers and websites!

Ryan should talk to John Doherty our so called regulator before he starts talking about the Smart networks etc. At last years TIF conference Doherty stood up and talked about broadband speeds of upto 100Mbps in Japan and then said you really don't need these type of speeds. !!! If our regulator believes we can live on low speeds how does he expect to oversee Ryan's plans of a Smart economy.

Sponge Bob

He doesn't , Doherty is 2 years away from his fat pension and could not give a flying ......

Siliconrepublic has a long and dishonourable history of publishing PR guff topped and tailed as so called journalism

watty

I would forgive the disbelief in 100Mbps if they believed in Universal Broadband. They appear though to have only recently adopted Universal Dailup (28k USO + Mobile Phone for a < 90% coverage NBS).

jor el

Sponge Bob wrote: »

Siliconrepublic has a long and dishonourable history of publishing PR guff topped and tailed as so called journalism

I hadn't realised how bad they were, till John Kennedy was on the Sunday Business Show a couple of weeks back. All he talked about was Three and Vodafone (who happen to sponsor both Today FM and the Sunday Business Show) and how that was the future of broadband. It was all great according to him, with no sign of trouble or problems with the 3G system. Utterly clueless, PR nonsense, thinly disguised as a technology report.