<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">FTTC is just an interim step - you still build the same GPON network but you avoid the expensive part which is the bit from the curb to the house. Over time you just start converting the drops into fibre - either because people pay you or the copper drop dies. <div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">It feels like a bit of an ugly interim step, but I think, compared to FTTN it’s much better. I suspect that NBNco will come up with a fairly standard Cu to Fibre drop replacement cost.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">MMC<br class=""><div class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 31 Jan 2018, at 5:46 pm, Mark Tees <<a href="mailto:marktees@gmail.com" class="">marktees@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class=""><div dir="auto" class="">Looks better than the vast majority of pitts?</div><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="">Looks like this <a href="https://www.netcommwireless.com/what-we-do/network-terminating-devices/fibre-distribution-point-fttdp" class="">https://www.netcommwireless.com/what-we-do/network-terminating-devices/fibre-distribution-point-fttdp</a></div><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="">Still way better than VDSL over 400m of copper.</div><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="">On Thu, 1 Feb 2018 at 05:49, Sam McLeod <<a href="mailto:ausnog@smcleod.net" class="">ausnog@smcleod.net</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space" class=""><div class="">Pretty disgraceful: <a href="https://imgur.com/BVvzinL" target="_blank" class="">https://i.imgur.com/BVvzinL.jpg</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Source: "The Sizzle" - <a href="https://share.thesizzle.com.au/sizzleshare/?id=4598" target="_blank" class="">https://share.thesizzle.com.au/sizzleshare/?id=4598</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px" class="">"<span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:16px" class="">Someone on Whirlpool has</span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:16px" class=""> </span><a href="https://thesizzle.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=62528f73daee6def1defe44e0&id=70d7f15fa7&e=a11daa10d7" style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:16px;color:rgb(204,101,150);text-decoration:none" target="_blank" class="">uploaded pics of what an NBN fibre to the curb (FTTC/FTTdp) install looks like</a><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:16px" class="">. The best pics are deeper in the thread, of the</span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:16px" class=""> </span><a href="https://thesizzle.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=62528f73daee6def1defe44e0&id=1c0c575583&e=a11daa10d7" style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:16px;color:rgb(204,101,150);text-decoration:none" target="_blank" class="">Netcomm unit that takes the NBN fibre</a><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:16px" class=""> </span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:16px" class="">and splits it out to the existing copper connections that go to the homes,</span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:16px" class=""> </span><a href="https://thesizzle.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=62528f73daee6def1defe44e0&id=d6a2e8514a&e=a11daa10d7" style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:16px;color:rgb(204,101,150);text-decoration:none" target="_blank" class="">sitting in the pit</a><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:16px" class="">. Apparently the fibre to copper units support G.Fast, but only offer VDSL2 for now. For those in an FTTC area,</span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:16px" class=""> </span><a href="https://thesizzle.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=62528f73daee6def1defe44e0&id=feeff27226&e=a11daa10d7" style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:16px;color:rgb(204,101,150);text-decoration:none" target="_blank" class="">the box you get in your home that you connect your router to, looks like this</a><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:16px" class="">, and provides power to that box in the street pit. Thanks to cwd, who posted this in The Sizzle's Slack channel afternoon!"</span></blockquote><div class=""><font color="#333333" face="sans-serif" size="3" class=""><br class=""></font><div class="">
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