[AusNOG] NBNCo releases its response to industry consultation

[Daniel O'Connor]

On 29/03/2010, at 14:18, John Edwards <john at netniche.com.au> wrote:

> Hi Grahame,
>
> On 29/03/2010, at 4:07 PM, Grahame Lynch wrote:
>
>>
>> Householder: I have Telstra for my phone line and Internode for my  
>> broadband. Do they know you are calling me?
>
> Presumably this information is going to be gleaned from the Telstra  
> database, and iterated through various wholesale providers to  
> discover the user's Voice, Broadband, and Alarm monitoring  
> providers, who will ultimately be responsible for migration  
> notification.
>
> The voice port is easy, seeing as the ONT is likely have a PSTN  
> interface - there will be a few casualties like outdoor ringers and  
> forgotten rotary-dial phones, but probably nothing that will cost  
> anyone a vote.
>
> The alarm monitoring part can probably be done through a voice port  
> if the ONT is designed with that feature in mind. I note that you  
> can't even buy ethernet/IP interfaces for alarm modules at their  
> wholesale stores at this point in time, and they don't expect that  
> to change anytime soon.

You can, we had one installed at work (along with a mobile link)  
however they did replace the whole system so maybe it's not cost  
effective to retrofit.

Backwards compatibility does make sense for this sort of thing though  
IMO.
--
Daniel O'Connor
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