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On 27/11/2010 3:23 PM, Dmitri Kalintsev wrote:
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And yeah, the service that you need to be able to supply
should be compliant with the Division 5A, "Technical
Standards", whatever they will turn out to be.<br>
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It is likely that the drafting of the Technical Standard will be
done within a workgroup of Communications Alliance - which means all
CA members will have the chance to be part of that workgroup, and
help steer the drafting, features and characteristics that will be
in or out etc - and along the way, there will be at least one public
comment stage of the draft, possibly more, before the 'agreed
draft' is handed to ACMA.<br>
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Whether or not the initial draft is done by CA or another body (an
NBN Co document might be used as a base) , the Technical Standards
will be 'made' by the ACMA - which means a ACMA public consultation
process where there will be a public draft (or series of them) made
available with the opportunity for all to comment and suggest
changes to etc. before the Technical Standard is finalised by ACMA.<br>
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Everyone will have one, and probably more than one, opportunity to
comment and shape the TS before it is finalised.<br>
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Also, by reading the definition of "superfast carriage
service":<br>
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<b><i>superfast carriage service</i></b> means a carriage
service, where:</p>
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(a) the carriage service enables end-users to download
communications; and</p>
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(b) the download transmission speed of the carriage service
is normally more than 25 megabits per second; and</p>
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(c) the carriage service is supplied using a line to
premises
occupied or used by an end-user.</p>
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item (c) implies this issue only affects access networks - it
doean't affect long-haul networks, or anything that runs between
datacentres, or any international link (I'm not aware of any
international cables that terminate in an end-users bedroom.), or
any link between two carriers or CSPs.<br>
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<pre wrap="">"The rule would not apply, however, to point-to-point connections
provided to single individual government or corporate end-users or proprietary
networks (consistent with recommendation 73 of the NBN Implementation Study)."
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<pre wrap="">Sounds like they've managed to exclude their own ICON network in Canberra from the requirements, and dark fibre links between DR sites.
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Paul.<br>
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