Hierarchical Virtual Private LAN Service comes to TransACT

anyone know if this will improve phase 1 speeds or is the new suburbs only?

shadow boxer said :

Given its a taxpayer funded entity wouldn’t they be better off extending their network to all Canberrans first ?

As a transact user, I can only wish it was taxpayer funded. Heck, even if they used tax money to install the network, you could at least half claim that. While some tax money might have been used a decade ago to start the business up, Ive no doubt its returning quite positive returns to govco, well, and its private shareholders.

The shareholders in TransACT Communications are (in no particular order):

ACTEW Corporation Limited
TVG TransAct Holdings SCA
Jemena ATA Pty Ltd
Prime Television Limited
MTAA Superannuation Fund (TransACT) Utilities Pty Ltd
Westscheme Pty Ltd
Australian Capital Ventures Limited

http://www.transact.com.au/about/shareholders.aspx

caf said :

shadow boxer, the taxpayer is just an indirect shareholder in a commercial enterprise (and not even a majority one).

sorry, who owns Transact then, I thought it was intended for all of us ?

H-VPLS fixed the scalability issues of VPLS, which allowed carrier-class services to be deployed over an Ethernet network.

Must be a very small carrier!

The technology allows more subscriber to hang off the same copper wire.
But the copper wire itself has a bandwidth limit.

Hope the service doesn’t deteriorate by having too many customers hang off the one copper wire.

shadow boxer, the taxpayer is just an indirect shareholder in a commercial enterprise (and not even a majority one).

Given its a taxpayer funded entity wouldn’t they be better off extending their network to all Canberrans first ?