On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 01:11:00AM +0000, Wayne Stallwood wrote:
On Wednesday 19 February 2003 16:33, Adrian F. Clark wrote:
Shame Ionica peaked 5 years too early, their technology would be perfect for this kind of thing.
Are you sure it would ?
Someone please correct me if I am wrong, but I'm pretty sure that regarding data throughput Ionica's ill fated network was not capable of much more than a regular PSTN line, anyway from memory network coverage was nearly as bad as ADSL.
The network coverage wasn't bad, just that the technology didn't work, people with a line of sight to their hq building had problems making phone calls. The bandwidth also was probably less than that of a regular telephone.
If it was capable of higher bandwidth data communications then that was a missed opportunity, by both Ionica and whoever could have bought them.
Ionica still exist (at least the technical people etc. and the people who set it up iirc) , they are still doing things with wireless communications so maybe they will actually return with a service that works.
Anyhow the real reason they went bankrupt is because they spent all of their money on cable ties, one look under their old datacentre floor would confirm this to anyone!
Adam