[AusNOG] "NBN Co to reserve data port for government"

[Tony]

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> From: Robert Hudson <hudrob at gmail.com>
>To: ausnog at lists.ausnog.net 
>Sent: Wednesday, 17 July 2013 1:56 PM
>Subject: Re: [AusNOG] "NBN Co to reserve data port for government"
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>On 17 July 2013 12:58, Matthew Moyle-Croft <mmc at mmc.com.au> wrote:
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>I wonder how they're going to use it?
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>>Let's say they wanted to use it for a "smart meter" - I'm fascinated how the process of cabling from whereever the NBN NTU is to the electricity meter.
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>Last I heard, the NBN has already been trying to sell access to one of the ports on their NTU to the energy utilities for something around $30 a month.  I'm pretty damned sure that will never fly at that sort of price.
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NBN should have GIVEN the energy utility a port then they could have 
mandated that they get an NTU in each and every house and we wouldn't 
have this "premises passed" v's "premises connected" issue (or perhaps charged a trivial amount like $10 PA to the utility for each premises).

Energy Utility could put in place a small device attached to the NBN NTU that 
uses Zigbee to talk to the smart meter (which is what I believe the 
smart meters use at the moment ?). This way it doesn't matter where the 
NTU is placed.


regards,
Tony.
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