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Narelle wrote:
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2"><span class="008162002-16092009"><strong><em>hot
of the press...</em></strong></span></font></div>
<div><span
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face="Arial" size="2">Quigley offers ISPs a rough sketch of NBN
architecture</font></span></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">NBN Co has developed a rough
architecture for the build-out of the National Broadband Network in an
attempt to keep ISPs and carriers in the loop as to how their services
will intersect with it.</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2"><span class="008162002-16092009">See:
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href="http://www.itnews.com.au/News/155871,quigley-offers-isps-a-rough-sketch-of-nbn-architecture.aspx/0">http://www.itnews.com.au/News/155871,quigley-offers-isps-a-rough-sketch-of-nbn-architecture.aspx/0</a></span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2"><span class="008162002-16092009">It
looks like a layer 2 GPON network with ethernet backhaul over classical
transmission gear, presenting to service providers from centralised
locations. Each premises will have an ONT with multiple ports so there
can be physical separation of services. He says this is merely a "stake
in the ground" and will consult with ISPs.</span></font></div>
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<div>Thoughts anyone?<br clear="all">
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Its broadly what we've been putting together as the initial work in the
Comms Alliance workgroups - work in progress
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://commswiki.dgit.biz/index.php/Main_Page">https://commswiki.dgit.biz/index.php/Main_Page</a>. I think it was a
diagram from this work that Quigley put up in the Brisbane briefing
yesterday.<br>
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TR-144 (<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.broadband-forum.org/technical/download/TR-144.pdf">http://www.broadband-forum.org/technical/download/TR-144.pdf</a>)
is a fairly heavily leaned upon precedent. There will be a first-run
architectural reference model released for broader comment in a few
weeks I believe.<br>
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