[AusNOG] Alternative to NBN?

[Paul Brooks]

On 19/05/2011 5:42 PM, Paul Gear wrote:
> On 19/05/11 13:36, Damien Morris wrote:
>> I heard Malcolm Turnbull giving an answer on Lateline last night that was almost
>> word-for-word the same response he gave me at the Vocus DC launch last year.
>>
>> Where is all this mythical 100mb/s-to-the-home capacity that already exists in X%
>> of the country..? :)
>>
>
> 10mb/s-to-the-home would be an improvement, IMO.
> 10mb/s-to-the-home-and-doesn't-drop-out-every-time-it-rains would have me kissing
> the feet of whichever ISP could pull it off.

Make it 10 Mbps-symmetric and I'd agree wih you. Figuring out he technology mix to
deliver 10 Mbps upstream is not trivial.

Turnbull et al claim that the DOCSIS3 deployments on Optus and Telstra HFC cables are
already delivering 100 Mbps to the home, and so are delivering NBN-compatible services
already past 2.something million homes. Again, they ignore the upstream - the 100Mbps
HFC cable services are 100/2 - only 1.5 to 2 Mbps upstream, not 40 Mbps upstream that
the NBN fibre 100/40 product delivers, and HFC is also not QoS-enabled or IPv6-enabled
either - or available wholesale.

Paul.

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