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Net: Fergus Cassidy reports that ‘bandwidth-starved TDs and Senators’ in the Oireachtas will be taking a shortcut around Ireland’s woeful consumer broadband situation, especially in terms of deployment outside of the main urban areas.

There’s a tender up to implement ‘an enhanced remote access system, which will improve access from Members’ homes or constituency Offices to data and services on servers in Leinster House’.

No similar luck for their constituents, of course. That really takes the biscuit…

Tags: access, broadband, consumer, deployment, net, oireachtas, shortcut, situation, system, tds, tender

Networking: Donal Cunningham, president of SAGE-IE, mails to note an interesting talk on in Dublin next week:

The System Administrators’ Guild of Ireland and Dublin University Internet Society present…

What : From the ground up; a greenfield deployment in Liberia

Who : Comdt. Kieran Motherway, Corps of Comms. and IS, Defence Forces

Where: Walton Lecture Theatre, Arts Building, TCD

When : Tuesday the 8th of February, 7 p.m.

Why : The Irish Defence Forces deployed to a greenfield site in Liberia in 2004, and had to build Comms/IT infrastructure from the ground up. Comdt. Motherway will talk about the Irish Army’s experiences with this deployment, and just how far removed from an air-conditioned, climate-controlled comms room you can get…

Sounds like fun, and I know a few taint.org readers will be interested ;)

Tags: comdt, comms, cunningham, defence, deployment, donal, greenfield, ground, irish, networking, president

A message from David Prior quotes the FCC’s Michael Powell, stating that “the amount of money BT spent on a 3G licence, plus that which will be spent on development and roll-out, could have funded (fibre-to-the-home) deployment to 95%+ of households in the UK.” Sickening.

Tags: amount, deployment, development, fcc, licence, message, money, roll-out, sickening