[AusNOG] Alternative to NBN?

[Mark Andrews]

In message <4DD5EFEC.3090907 at layer10.com.au>, Paul Brooks writes:
> 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 e=
> xists 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 technolo=
> gy mix to
> deliver 10 Mbps upstream is not trivial.
> 
> Turnbull et al claim that the DOCSIS3 deployments on Optus and Telstra HF=
> C cables are
> already delivering 100 Mbps to the home, and so are delivering NBN-compat=
> ible 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 u=
> pstream that
> the NBN fibre 100/40 product delivers, and HFC is also not QoS-enabled or=
>  IPv6-enabled
> either - or available wholesale.

It could be IPv6 enabled. DOCSIS3 supports it. 6rd or even 6to4, initially,
for DOCSIS1 and DOCSIS2 customers.
 
> Paul.
> 
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