On Tue, 30 May 2000, Dan Langille wrote:
>>I understand that Khandallah was the site chosen for the ADSL trial
>>because it had the new exchange equipment required for the trial but at
>>the same time had lots of old copper. The reasoning was that if it worked
>>at Khandallah, it would work anywhere. I don't know what role the
>>social/economic profile of the surrounding community had.

>I've just spoken with an ex-Telecom friend who claims Khandallah was
>chosen because of the close geographic spread of all the users on it,
>rather than from a high spec technical reason. But the bit about the
>copper still stands. I was told that by some other Telecom people.

As one of the key people for making this decision, it was driven by a whole
range of criteria.

Geographic, it was in Wellington, and as Telecom is based in Wellington,
closer is easier. Technical, Khandallah exchange area has almost a complete
range of different cable technologies, cable laying techniques and cable
ages in the country, and most users were within the 2.7km radius the NEC
technology supported. Socio-Economic, the Khandallah exchange area actually
includes most of Ngaio, which at the time (1995) was in a much lower
demographic than Khandallah itself (things have changed a lot since then!),
which gave us the widest range we could get from a single exchange.
Marketing, consumer information indicated that Khandallah had a very high
likely video uptake. Other reasons, which I can't go into here!

Interestingly enough we originally planned to cover Mirimar as well, but I
couldn't get enough benefits in the business case to justify the additional
cost.

Elliott

(incidentally the bit above about new exchange equipment is right, but not
in the way meant. The type of telephone technology being used doesn't matter
to ADSL, but the fact that the original electro-mechanical exchange had been
replaced meant there was now enough physical space in the exchange building
to fit the ADSL gear!)
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Received on Wed May 31 14:56:30 2000