[AusNOG] Alternative to NBN?

[David N]

I've been involved with a trial on the mainland and I'm aware of at
least one other trial too.

BPL has a lot of technical smarts borrowed from DOCSIS and DSL, however
they cannot over the big issue - attenuation. Power lines are not
designed for signals over 1Mhz and as such signal quality and link speed
**rapidly** decrease above 50-100m from a repeater. This adversely
affects any business case.

At best I'd classify this a DSL alternative.

This being said there still are a few active deployments worldwide (but
far more have been decommissioned) just google it. IMO the issue is that
a couple of years ago vendors started to pull out of BPL....



, On Sun, 2011-05-15 at 15:25 -0700, Tony wrote:
> I seem to recall Tasmania running a broadband over power line trial a
> little while ago (pre-NBN).
> 
> Apart from the ham radio operators objecting vehemently to it (with
> some justification apparently) does anyone have info on the outcomes
> from this trial ? I'm guessing that it wasn't that successful as
> nothing has come of it.
> 
> Is there anywhere in the world where broadband over power lines is
> being widely used or is it another one of those "seems like a good
> idea until you try it" things ?
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> Tony.
> 
> 
> --- On Sun, 15/5/11, Mark Stewart <mark at nabc.com.au> wrote:
>         
>         From: Mark Stewart <mark at nabc.com.au>
>         Subject: Re: [AusNOG] Alternative to NBN?
>         To: "'Skeeve Stevens'" <Skeeve at eintellego.net>, "'AusNOG'"
>         <ausnog at ausnog.net>
>         Received: Sunday, 15 May, 2011, 10:57 PM
>         
>         Synergy (Western Power) were working on Internet over Power
>         some years ago in South Perth and some other areas which was
>         canned due to some issues with Ham radio users? But
>         considering how everyone in Australia has power this is an
>         excellent alternative and easily (relatively) rolled out.
>         
>          
>         
>         Regards,
>         
>          
>         
>         Mark Stewart
>         
>         
>         
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