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By Sarah Falson | Sunday | 25/11/2007
A leading business application service provider has warned that Australia needs to aggregate its websites if it hopes to be able to keep its broadband infrastructure working to expectations. Building an online infrastructure that groups together content – such as MySpace with music and YouTube for video – is paramount for the new government if it hopes to compete in the worldwide internet economy, says the provider.
Hostworks, an Australian service provider for large corporations such as Network Ten, Seek and Ticketek, says that while the majority of internet content accessed by Australians comes from overseas, we need to start building a local structure that better manages websites and content.
"The critical issue is not how fast [broadband] goes into people's houses: It is how fast it runs across the country and the speed of backbone data links for commercial service providers like Hostworks," said Hostworks managing director, Marty Gauvin.
"This year, I spent three months trying to get a 10-gigabit data link from either Telstra or Optus. They'd say ‘sure you can have it', but when I asked for a price, they'd say, ‘it's not quite ready yet'.
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