[AusNOG] NBN Legislation

[Mark Smith]

On Sat, 27 Nov 2010 11:45:50 +0000
Bevan Slattery <Bevan.Slattery at nextdc.com> wrote:

> Let me give you some more examples to chew on:
> 
> Any HFC network owner such as looking to upgrade their network to DOCSIS 3.0

Hmm, so no IPv6 for HFC customers then, other than tunnelled
over IPv4.


> Any provider installing in-building DSLAM's delivering high speed broadband to residential towers using VDSL
> Any provider installing in-building DSLAM's delivering high speed broadband to commercial buildings using VDSL
> Any DSLAM provider considering upgrading their DSLAM's to be able to provide VDSL (particularly in inner metro)
> Any provider installing GPON to residential communities or buildings
> Any provider installing GPON to commercial buildings
> Any provider offering Ethernet services over fibre and decides (due to necessity) to upgrade core/distribution/edge components
> Any provider possibly offering bonded EFM services of greater than 25Mbps
> *maybe* any Submarine Cable owner with network elements in Australia
> 
> [b]
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net [mailto:ausnog-
> > bounces at lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of Bevan Slattery
> > Sent: Saturday, 27 November 2010 9:34 PM
> > To: James Andrewartha
> > Cc: ausnog at ausnog.net
> > Subject: Re: [AusNOG] NBN Legislation
> > 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: James Andrewartha [mailto:trs80 at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au]
> > > Isn't that exempt under the following?
> > >
> > > "Second, where a telecommunications network (other than the NBN)
> > comes
> > > into existence or is altered or upgraded, after 25 November 2010, to
> > > supply or be capable of supplying a superfast carriage service to
> > > customers, other than individual government or corporate end-users, ..."
> > 
> > Have a read of the actual clause and let me know what your interpretation is.
> > It's a network that is used *or is capable of being used*.  It is where the
> > "network" is not used *wholey* to supply carriage services.
> > 
> > Sure seems captured to me.
> > 
> > [b]
> > 
> > For the purposes of this Part, if:
> >                      (a)  a telecommunications network is used, or is capable of being
> > used, to supply one or more Layer 2 bitstream services to customers, or
> > prospective customers, in Australia; and
> >                      (b)  the network is used, or is capable of being used, to supply a
> > superfast carriage service to customers, or prospective customers, in
> > Australia; and
> >                      (c)  the network is not the national broadband network; and
> >                      (d)  either:
> >                               (i)  the network came into existence after 25 November 2010;
> > or
> >                              (ii)  the network was altered or upgraded after 25 November
> > 2010 and, as a result of the alteration or upgrade, the network became
> > capable of being used to supply a superfast carriage service to customers, or
> > prospective customers, in Australia; and
> >                      (e)  the network is not used wholly to supply carriage services to a
> > single end-user, where that end-user is:
> >                               (i)  a public body (within the meaning of the
> > Telecommunications Act 1997 ); or
> >                              (ii)  a company;
> > the network is a designated superfast telecommunications network .
> > 
> > To my (non-legal) reading, it's captured.
> > 
> > [b]
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