[AusNOG] "It's like grandfather's axe"

[Mark Delany]

> > Doing that between exchange and where Abbott lives might be more productive

In all seriousness one of the biggest benefits of a 21st century NBN
is removing "best effort" and "up to" as escape clauses for providers
of the infrastructure.

If my electricity company sold me a supply that was "up to" 240V but
somewhere between 0 and 83V when it rains, we'd laugh at the
absurdity.

So whatever comes out of this latest NBN review and consequential
changes in technology, if it includes a QOS component that holds
providers accountable, that will remove one of the major concerns with
re-using the existing copper network.

And I mean a real, measurable QOS. How hard can it be to have the
customer-side NTU have a builtin QOS monitor? If the QOS light is red
the provider has a fault to fix. Simple.

After all, if in 2020 we have "upto" 100Mb/s VDSL, but down to 0MB/s
when it rains with zero recourse, how much better off are we?


Mark.