[AusNOG] NBN Co Layer 2 vs. Layer 3 Services

[Daniel Hood]

That makes sense now.

So they are aiming at the whole "one cable" to each home thing.
Instead of having one each for phone, data and TV. Are there any other
services except for these general three they are aiming to push down
this one cable? I suppose the possibilities are pretty endless as is
though.

I was thinking more government multicast VOIP page sort of thing. If
they wanted to advise the public at large of something, such as Conroy
has seen the error of his ways and decided not to filter the internet
or mainly that twitter feed FakeConroy because it is actually
hilarious...



Regards,

Daniel


On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 11:39 AM, Narelle <narellec at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 10:05 AM, Daniel Hood <dsmhood at gmail.com> wrote:
>> They are putting in a multicast network?
>>
>> Is it just like the MBone (or whatever they used to call it)?
>
>
> Nothing like the mbone (multicast backbone). The mbone was an overlay
> network that was multicast enabled and landed mostly in universities.
>
> wikipedia seems to be fairly accurate:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mbone
>
> NBN Co, from what I can unravel so far, is intending to use some of
> the newer features in GPON gear to make it multicast aware. I'm still
> struggling with how this would work, and have some concerns about the
> stability and interoperability of any such implementation. The
> intention is to facilitate IPTV.
>
>
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