[AusNOG] NBNCo releases its response to industry consultation

[Bevan Slattery]

Sorry for the quality.  I changed sentences around a few times and
didn't re-read before posting.  It's late :)

[b]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net 
> [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of Bevan Slattery
> Sent: Friday, March 26, 2010 12:42 AM
> To: Dasmo; ausnog at ausnog.net
> Subject: Re: [AusNOG] NBNCo releases its response to industry 
> consultation
> 
> PON's fine.  CPE is readily available and PON will be forward 
> compatible for many years at the layer 1/2 layers.  If you 
> need PtP fibre you can always interconnect the premises fibre 
> directly to a 'spare' fibre in the enclosure that holds the 
> optical splitter. But you end up with the question of where 
> do you terminate that?  PtP fibre would be a very, very large 
> exercise indeed and indeed cost prohibitive.  But you are 
> correct that it will provide maximum flexibility along with 
> maximum cost (capex and opex).  But I have to agree, that for 
> $43B it would have been good to have a formal study conducted 
> (and released) showing the costs of both against the 
> benefits.  But I am comfortable that all things considered 
> PON is the right choice.
> 
> As for using multiple standards depending on sites, that's 
> where things get interesting.  They need to standardise 
> things as best they can.
> That's actually why the Governments legislation forcing FttP 
> on all new developments is a poor policy decision.  As I 
> personally told the Minister personally last year, I believe 
> they should have mandated that all new development install 
> 'community conduit' or NBN conduit and all residential 
> lead-ins' should be either 32mm or 50mm in size and simply 
> leave it at that.  That way Telstra can rollout their copper 
> and should NBN Co get overbuild seamlessly and cost 
> effectively to those communities.
> 
> I firmly believe that most of the FttP the Government will 
> force developers to install will actually be pulled out 
> should NBN proceed.
> It will be much more cost effective from a 50 year 
> maintenance perspective to have a single fibre platform for 
> NBN rather than trying to manage legacy vendor product 
> connecting homes.  Furthermore, it will create monopoly 
> islands in the meantime and perhaps even more concerning is 
> that you should expect a flock of "less reputable" 
> organisations entering this space to offer cheap and nasty 
> FttP solutions.
> 
> But hey - what do I know...
> 
> Cheers
> 
> [b]
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net 
> > [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of Dasmo
> > Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2010 1:53 PM
> > To: ausnog at ausnog.net
> > Subject: Re: [AusNOG] NBNCo releases its response to industry 
> > consultation
> > 
> > Using PON is a bit short sighted. If you're going to spend 
> the money 
> > to roll out a nationwide network, you might as well only do it once.
> > 
> > 
> > On 25/03/2010, at 2:40 PM, Narelle wrote:
> > 
> > > [apologies for cross posting]
> > > 
> > > This seems to have come out today:
> > > 
> > > 
> > 
> http://www.nbnco.com.au/content/upload/files/Response_to_Industry_Subm
> > > issions/NBN_Co_response_to_consultation_submissions.pdf
> > > 
> > > 
> > > and Computerworld is reporting that:
> > > "The NBN Co is claiming strong industry support for its layer two 
> > > network design and choice of Ethernet or Gigabit Passive Optical 
> > > Network (GPON) technology for delivering high speed
> > broadband as part
> > > of the National Broadband Network (NBN)."
> > > 
> > > see:
> > > 
> > 
> http://www.computerworld.com.au/article/340877/nbn_co_claims_industry_
> > > support_network_design/?fp=16&fpid=1
> > > 
> > > 
> > > --
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Narelle
> > > narellec at gmail.com
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