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NBN Co has today released the Fibre Access Service Product Overview. The paper will shortly be published on NBN Co’s website, and can be downloaded at <span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://www.nbnco.com.au/publications-and-announcements/publications" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17, 65, 112); ">http://www.nbnco.com.au/publications-and-announcements/publications</a>.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">The release of NBN Co’s Fibre Access Product Overview represents the culmination of an extensive industry engagement program on NBN Co’s fibre product. As a wholesale only provider, NBN Co has been keen to engage with the industry to understand the industry’s product requirements. NBN Co has been actively engaging with Access Seekers since its inception. NBN Co has engaged with Access Seekers through a mixture of industry wide processes and bilateral meetings. NBN Co has also engaged on technical matters with industry via the Communications Alliance and met and presented to other industry groups.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">On the industry wide front, over 1000 attendees have participated in NBN Co’s industry consultation forums:</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "> </p><p style="margin-bottom: 10pt; line-height: 14px; "><span style="font-family: Symbol; "><span>·<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span></span>Three Fibre Product forums were held in Sydney, Melbourne and Perth (Perth jointly with Communications Alliance).</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 10pt; line-height: 14px; "><span style="font-family: Symbol; "><span>·<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span></span>10 Network and Operations forums were held in Sydney (4 sessions), Melbourne (3), Adelaide, Perth and Brisbane.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 10pt; line-height: 14px; "><span style="font-family: Symbol; "><span>·<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span></span>NBN Co presented to Communications Alliance members at two forums in Sydney and Melbourne on its product technical thinking.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">NBN Co released a public Product Consultation paper in December 2009. Nearly 50 submissions were received from industry and interested stakeholders and we released a response paper in March 2010.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">On the bilateral front, NBN Co has held a number of ‘deep dive’ product workshops with a number of key retail and wholesale service providers. NBN Co has completed approximately 150 hours of direct product deep dives in workshop sessions with over 25 access seekers spread across Australia. These sessions were designed to ensure that we get as much information as possible from our prospective customers to ensure that we develop the right products, operational systems and processes for industry and end users. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">We have received a significant amount of valuable feedback from these engagements, much of which has been incorporated into this product paper. However, if you do have any further feedback on this paper, please respond by 2nd September 2010 via email to: <a href="mailto:feedback@nbnco.com.au" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17, 65, 112); "><span style="color: windowtext; ">feedback@nbnco.com.au</span></a>.</p>
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<b>Next steps</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">As part of the overall development of our commercial products, and the further definition of the network architecture, NBN Co is also developing a related POI Consultation Paper, and a NBN Co Fibre Access Service (NFAS) Pricing Paper.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Other related documents are in preparation, and will be published over coming months to form a suite of documentation:</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "> </p><p style="margin-bottom: 10pt; text-align: justify; line-height: 14px; "><span style="font-family: Symbol; "><span>·<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span></span>NFAS Product Technical Specification.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 10pt; text-align: justify; line-height: 14px; "><span style="font-family: Symbol; "><span>·<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span></span>Service Management and Operations Manual.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 10pt; text-align: justify; line-height: 14px; "><span style="font-family: Symbol; "><span>·<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span></span>Deployment Guide.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 10pt; text-align: justify; line-height: 14px; "><span style="font-family: Symbol; "><span>·<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span></span>Systems Manual.</p>
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