<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>When I learnt how voice interconnect works back in 1999 the course was conducted by a bloke who used to work for Colt in Europe who pioneered putting fibre in sewers.</div><div><br></div><div>He said that when you are a linesman for a sewer fibre carrier the thing you dread is a fibre break because in addition to your fibre splicing kit you may need scuba gear.</div><div><br></div><div>Yuck.</div><div><br></div><div>jsl</div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; ">--<br>John Lindsay - GM Regulatory and Corporate Affairs - Internode and Agile<br>Street: 150 Grenfell St, Adelaide<br>Postal: P.O. Box 284, Rundle Mall, Adelaide, S.A. 5000<br>Direct: ph +61 8 8228 2965 - fx +61 8 8235 6965 mb/cell +61 4 0357 7711</span>
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<br><div><div>On 15/10/2010, at 9:40 AM, Darren Moss wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">
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<div><font color="#0000ff" size="2" face="Arial"></font> </div><p align="left"><font size="2" face="Verdana">Regards, <br> <br> <br></font><font size="2"><font face="Verdana"><strong>Darren Moss<br></strong>General Manager<br>Australia and
New Zealand<br><br><span class="620090923-14102010">em3 People and Technology,
Managed Technology Experts</span></font></font></p><p align="left"><font size="2" face="verdana">[p] 1300 131 083 extension 105 [f] 03
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[mailto:ausnog-bounces@lists.ausnog.net] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Paul
Brooks<br><b>Sent:</b> Friday, 15 October 2010 10:04 AM<br><b>To:</b> Brent
Paddon; <a href="mailto:ausnog@ausnog.net">ausnog@ausnog.net</a><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [AusNOG] Brisbane gets "NBN"
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<div></div>On 14/10/2010 7:46 PM, Brent Paddon wrote:
<blockquote cite="mid:AANLkTik3eLGFaYY4GOV3SvXdDZ_j5uNjNvq1_Kk5Obz4@mail.gmail.com" type="cite"><span style="BORDER-COLLAPSE: collapse; FONT-FAMILY: arial,sans-serif; COLOR: rgb(80,0,80); FONT-SIZE: 13px"><a style="COLOR: rgb(17,65,112)" href="http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/technology/technology-news/we-cant-wait-for-nbn-superfast-broadband-for-brisbane-20101014-16kvr.html" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/technology/technology-news/we-cant-wait-for-nbn-superfast-broadband-for-brisbane-20101014-16kvr.html</a></span>
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<div><font color="#500050" face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="BORDER-COLLAPSE: collapse">Supposedly rolling out from early next year.
No other details yet. Anyone know of the firm involved?<br clear="all"></span></font></div></blockquote><br>The original announcements in
2009 were for a group called 'H20 Networks' as an offshoot of the i3 group,
which is a UK firm specialising in sewer deployments.<br><br>see <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.h2o-networks.com/">http://www.h2o-networks.com/</a> for the UK
parent firm, and <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.h2onetworks.com.au/">http://www.h2onetworks.com.au/</a> for the
Australian (Brisbane) website.<br><br>H2O networks have been doing this a while
around the world, and been reported on in Australia back to 2008:<br><br><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.itnews.com.au/News/102018,uk-sewage-network-could-provide-super-fast-broadband.aspx">http://www.itnews.com.au/News/102018,uk-sewage-network-could-provide-super-fast-broadband.aspx</a><br><br>and
from 2006 when they first announced their Fibre Optical Underground Sewer System
- <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-153766470.html">http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-153766470.html</a>
(can't find the full announcement)<br><br>It all seems to be the brainchild of
one Elfed Thomas who talks about it here <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://lifestyle.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=11352">http://lifestyle.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=11352</a>,
who is also CEO of i3 Group (or was in July 2010), so i3 and H20 networks
appears to be fairly interchangable.<br><br>From the reading I've done, it looks
like an i3/H20 proposal after much lobbying and demonstrations being given
permission to build and pay for the network, rather than an initiaitive driven
by BCC.<br><br>Paul.<br><br></div>
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